Gestalt Therapy Books
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)
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)
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)
Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy: An Autoethnography
Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy is an invitation to explore social and political issues within the psychotherapeutic framework. It describes and analyses the author's... (more)
Christianity and Gestalt Therapy: The Presence of God in Human Relationships
Christianity and Gestalt Therapy is a unique integration written for psychotherapists who want to better understand their Christian clients and Christian counselors who want a clinically sound... (more)
Gestalt Reconsidered: A new approach to contact and resistance.
Focusing on the integrative power of the Gestalt approach, this study places the Gestalt therapy model in the social-constructivist tradition of Lewin, Goldstein and Goodman. (more)
The Voice of Shame: Silence and Connection in Psychotherapy
This collection analyses the impact that shame may have on the lives of diverse individuals throughout their life cycle, and the implications of this for the therapeutic situation.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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: 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)
Aggression, Time and Understanding: Contributions to the Evolution of Gestalt Therapy
Aggression, Time, and Understanding is the first book of Staemmler's writings to be published in English. In the early sections of this book, Staemmler (supported by his Buddhist wife, Barbara)... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: The Art of Contact
Gestalt Therapy has been developing steadily for the last 50 years in America as well as in Europe. It is currently practiced in different settings: individual, group, and family therapies; personal... (more)
The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Worlds: Vol. 1 Childhood
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents,... (more)
Gestalt Therapy
This remarkable exploration of the inner principles of Gestalt therapy originated over twenty years ago in the form of a completed book, written at Fritz Perls' request. Here it is joined by a... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)