Gestalt Therapy Books
Gestalt Therapy: The Basics
Gestalt Therapy: The Basics provides an accessible and concise overview of the approach and its substantial theory.
Experiential exercises, clinical vignettes, and examples from everyday... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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: Living Creatively Today
How can we reconcile our desire for freedom with the limits or routines that orgainize our existence? How do we affirm our personality while adjusting to the world? How can we be nourished by... (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 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)
Organizational consulting: A Gestalt approach
An exposition of the organizational approach developed by Edwin Nevis and his team, which has been applied to organizational settings that range from hospitals to industry and government. The... (more)
Gestalt Therapy Practice: Theory and Experiential Learning
This essential new book gives the reader an introduction to the fundamental concepts of gestalt therapy in a stimulating and accessible style. It supports the study and practice of gestalt therapy... (more)
Human Interaction and Emotional Awareness in Gestalt Therapy: Exploring the Phenomenology of Contacting and Feeling
In Human Interaction and Emotional Awareness in Gestalt Therapy H. Peter Dreitzel explores a model of the contacting processes between human beings and their environments and presents a... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)