ON INTIMATE GROUND by Gordon Wheeler (Editor), Stephanie Backman (Editor) ( 9781134897964 )

Item Details

Title:

ON INTIMATE GROUND
A GESTALT APPROACH TO WORKING WITH COUPLES

By:

Gordon Wheeler (Editor), Stephanie Backman (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£50.00
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source it.

ISBN 10:

1134897960

ISBN 13:

9781134897964

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 September, 2013

Pages:

448

Synopsis:

Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine the insights of dynamic psychology with the power and clarity of systems dynamics. In this exciting new volume, Gordon Wheeler and Stephanie Backman, couples therapists with broad training and long years of experience, present dramatic new approaches that at last integrate the dynamic/self-organizational and the systemic/behavioral schools of thought.Building on the insights of Gestalt psychology and psychotherapy, the authors show us how a truly phenomenological approach, based on the clients' own experience and goals, holds the key to a dramatic increase in therapeutic power and flexibility. The fifteen engaging chapters demonstrate the application of this approach to issues of intimacy, self-construction, power and abuse, "resistance," growth, and shame - and to such diverse and challenging populations as abuse survivors and their partners, remarried couples, gay and lesbian couples, and couples with "personality" or "character" disorders.In the process, the authors offer a fresh perspective that will serve to re-energize the couples therapist's work in this challenging area. On Intimate Ground contributes new insights to many of the most timely and provocative questions in the field today.

Publication:

Imprint:

Gestalt Press

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

AIDS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

AIDS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (HB)

AIDS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (PB)

APPLYING THE EVIDENCE: CLINICAL TRIALS IN DIABETES (PB)

BEYOND INDIVIDUALISM