Gestalt Therapy Books
Gestalt Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
Petruska Clarkson's classic text is the definitive introduction to Gestalt therapy. This fourth edition, updated by Simon Cavicchia, covers the latest in Gestalt theory, research and practice.... (more)
Relational Approaches in Gestalt Therapy
Lynne Jacobs and Richard Hycner assemble an international group of Gestalt theorists and clinicians for an engaging and insightful investigation into the integration of relational approaches within... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
This seminal text sets forth the theoretical foundations of Gestalt Therapy. Originally published in 1951. (more)
Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy
This practical guide to the gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in gestalt practice. The authors offer practical guidance on... (more)
Developing Gestalt Counselling
Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas... (more)
Gestalt Coaching: Distinctive Features
Gestalt Coaching: Distinctive Features makes Gestalt principles, values, and philosophy accessible to coaches of all backgrounds and explains how to apply them in practice.
Peter Bluckert... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Gestalt therapy offers a present-focused, relational approach, central to which is the fundamental belief that the client knows the best way of adjusting to their situation. This new edition of... (more)
Embodied Relational Gestalt: Theories and Applications
An international selection of authors provide a detailed exploration of Gestalt as a somatic and relational practice. Covering many aspects of this relationship, the chapters include discussion of... (more)
Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Radical Relational Approach
Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic... (more)
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Coaching for Relationships
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Coaching for Relationships provides psychotherapists and coaches with a thorough understanding of two-person dynamics and offers practical interventions for working with... (more)
New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy: Relational Ground, Authentic Self
Gestalt therapists often work with groups. Group therapists from a variety of theoretical orientations frequently incorporate insights and methodology from gestalt therapy. New Directions in Gestalt... (more)
Brief Gestalt Therapy
Brief Gestalt Therapy demonstrates how the Gestalt approach can be used effectively in brief interventions with clients. Gestalt's distinctively integrative nature and emphasis on a highly... (more)
The Empty Chair: Tales from Gestalt Therapy
Through eight compelling stories we get to know the Gestalt therapist Vikram Kolmannskog and some of his clients. These include the businessman Carl who is suffering from chronic burnout, the... (more)
Contact and Context: New Directions in Gestalt Coaching
This collection brings together some leading figures in Gestalt coaching to take stock of the field and consider how it might move forward. It covers the principles of Gestalt coaching and encourages... (more)
Relational Organisational Gestalt: An Emergent Approach to Organisational Development
This book provides a comprehensive view of the application of Relational Gestalt theory to Organisation Development and change interventions in organisations.
Uncertainty and frequent change... (more)
Breakthrough Moments in Arts-Based Psychotherapy
In psychotherapy clients sometimes experience breakthrough moments - profound moments in which their world and how they view themselves is changed for ever. But what exactly occurs during such... (more)
Integrative Gestalt Practice: Transforming our Ways of Working with People
Integrative Gestalt Practice (IGP) is a new approach to understanding and working with complexity and wholeness in people’s lives. Amongst the many published books on the market today focusing on the... (more)
Mending the World: Social Healing Interventions by Gestalt Practitioners Worldwide
Mending the World provides a blueprint for making a difference in the intractable social issues that exist today. It presents the compelling drama of thirteen stories of people on the firing lines in... (more)
Gestalt Therapy Around the World
The first internationally focused book on gestalt therapy to provide a comprehensive overview of current practice around the world. Features coverage of the history, training, theoretical... (more)
Facilitating Change in Groups and Teams: A Gestalt Approach to Mindfulness
Paul Barber is widely recognised as one of the leading practitioners and researchers of Gestalt-informed facilitation and coaching. In Facilitating Change in Groups and Organisations he encapsulates... (more)
Gestalt Counselling in a Nutshell
This pocket-sized book is the beginners guide to the essentials of Gestalt Therapy, from its principles to practice. Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, the book introduces: - the origins... (more)
Gestalt Therapy Around the World
An essential guide to how gestalt therapy is researched, developed, and practiced internationally. The text provides an overview of the development and practice of gestalt therapy in over fifteen... (more)
Relational Child, Relational Brain: Development and Therapy in Childhood and Adolescence
Relational Child, Relational Brain continues the development of the paradigm shift that places human development in a field that is deeply complex and fundamentally one of interconnection, taking us... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: Roots and Branches - Collected Papers
There has been a renewed interest in the last ten years in the underpinnings – theoretical, philosophical, and historical – of the Gestalt approach. Often in the past, these have been lost in... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: Therapy of the Situation
This seminal textbook on Gestalt therapy refreshes the theory of Gestalt therapy revisiting its European roots. Taking the basic premise that people do the best they can in relation to their own... (more)
An Introduction to Gestalt
Contents: PART ONE: BACKGROUND A Brief History of Gestalt Contemporary Gestalt Principles and Recent Developments PART TWO: Gestalt Theories The Relationship in Gestalt Practice Awareness Embodiment... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practice
The Gestalt approach is based on the philosophy that the human being is born with the healthy ability to regulate needs and wants in relationship with the environment in which she/he lives.... (more)
Object Relations in Gestalt Therapy
The author proposes a revision of Perls, Hefferline and Goodman's Theory of the Self in a way that brings it closer to contemporary issues in in the area of personality disorders. Understanding... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: A Guide to Contemporary Practice
This book is a practical, professional reference on the practice of Gestalt Therapy (GT) by Philip Brownell, a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. The book covers the philosophical basics... (more)
Personality Pathology: Developmental Perspectives
Personality pathology is rooted in early development and affects a wide range of affects, behaviours and cognitive processes. Every year thousands of articles about the etiology pf personality... (more)