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Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and
difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to
defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this
groundbreaking new collection, The Voice of Shame, thirteen
distinguished authors show how use of the Gestalt model of self and
relationship can clarify the dynamics of shame and lead us to fresh
approaches and methods in this challenging terrain. This model
shows how shame issues become pivotal in therapeutic and other
relationships and how healing shame is the key to transformational
change. The contributors show how new perspectives on shame gained
in no particular area transfer and generalize to other areas and
settings. In so doing, they transform our fundamental understanding
of psychotherapy itself. Grounded in the most recent research on
the dynamics and experience of shame, this book is a practical
guide for all psychotherapists, psychologists, clinicians, and
others interested in self, psychotherapy, and relationship. This
book contains powerful new insights for the therapist on a
full-range of topics from intimacy in couples to fathering to
politics to child development to gender issues to negative
therapeutic reactions. Filled with anecdotes and case examples as
well as practical strategies, The Voice of Shame will transform
your ideas about the role of shame in relationships - and about the
potential of the Gestalt model to clarify and contextualize other
approaches.
In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the
oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler
challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the
individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our
embedded yet pervasive ideas that the individual self precedes and
transcends relationship and social field conditions and that
interpersonal experience is somehow secondary and even opposed to
the needs of the inner self. Assumptions like these, Wheeler
argues, which are taken to be inherent to human nature and
development, amount to a controlling cultural paradigm that does
considerable violence to both our evolutionary self-nature and our
intuitive self-experience. He asserts that we are actually far more
relational and intersubjective than our cultural generally allows
and that these relational capacities are deeply built into our
inherent evolutionary nature. His argument progresses from the
origins and lineage of the Western individualist self-model, into
the basis for a new model of the self, relationship, and experience
out of the insights and implications of Gestalt psychology and its
philosophical derivatives, deconstructivism and social
constructionism. From there, in a linked series of experiential
chapters, each of them a groundbreaking essay in its own right, he
takes up the essential dynamic themes of self-experience and
relational life: interpersonal orientation, meaning-making and
adaptation, support, shame, intimacy, and finally narrative and
gender, culminating in considerations of health, ethics, politics,
and spirit. The result is a picture and an experience of self that
is grounded in the active dynamics of attention, problem solving,
imagination, interpretation, evaluation, emotion, meaning-making,
narration, and, above all, relationship. By the final section, the
reader comes away with a new sense of what it means to be human and
a new and more usable definition of health.
Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and
difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to
defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this
groundbreaking new collection, The Voice of Shame, thirteen
distinguished authors show how use of the Gestalt model of self and
relationship can clarify the dynamics of shame and lead us to fresh
approaches and methods in this challenging terrain. This model
shows how shame issues become pivotal in therapeutic and other
relationships and how healing shame is the key to transformational
change. The contributors show how new perspectives on shame gained
in no particular area transfer and generalize to other areas and
settings. In so doing, they transform our fundamental understanding
of psychotherapy itself. Grounded in the most recent research on
the dynamics and experience of shame, this book is a practical
guide for all psychotherapists, psychologists, clinicians, and
others interested in self, psychotherapy, and relationship. This
book contains powerful new insights for the therapist on a
full-range of topics from intimacy in couples to fathering to
politics to child development to gender issues to negative
therapeutic reactions. Filled with anecdotes and case examples as
well as practical strategies, The Voice of Shame will transform
your ideas about the role of shame in relationships - and about the
potential of the Gestalt model to clarify and contextualize other
approaches.
In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the
oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler
challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the
individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our
embedded yet pervasive ideas that the individual self precedes and
transcends relationship and social field conditions and that
interpersonal experience is somehow secondary and even opposed to
the needs of the inner self. Assumptions like these, Wheeler
argues, which are taken to be inherent to human nature and
development, amount to a controlling cultural paradigm that does
considerable violence to both our evolutionary self-nature and our
intuitive self-experience. He asserts that we are actually far more
relational and intersubjective than our cultural generally allows
and that these relational capacities are deeply built into our
inherent evolutionary nature. His argument progresses from the
origins and lineage of the Western individualist self-model, into
the basis for a new model of the self, relationship, and experience
out of the insights and implications of Gestalt psychology and its
philosophical derivatives, deconstructivism and social
constructionism. From there, in a linked series of experiential
chapters, each of them a groundbreaking essay in its own right, he
takes up the essential dynamic themes of self-experience and
relational life: interpersonal orientation, meaning-making and
adaptation, support, shame, intimacy, and finally narrative and
gender, culminating in considerations of health, ethics, politics,
and spirit. The result is a picture and an experience of self that
is grounded in the active dynamics of attention, problem solving,
imagination, interpretation, evaluation, emotion, meaning-making,
narration, and, above all, relationship. By the final section, the
reader comes away with a new sense of what it means to be human and
a new and more usable definition of health.
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, and their families and worlds. From the theoretical to
the hands-on, and from the clinical office or playroom to family
settings, schools, institutions, and the community, these chapters
take us on a rewarding tour of the vibrant, productive range of
Gestalt work today, always focusing on the first two decades of
life. With each new topic and setting, fresh and creative ideas and
interventions are offered and described, for use by practitioners
of every school and method.
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, and their families and worlds. From the theoretical to
the hands-on, and from the clinical office or playroom to family
settings, schools, institutions, and the community, these chapters
take us on a rewarding tour of the vibrant, productive range of
Gestalt work today, always focusing on the first two decades of
life. With each new topic and setting, fresh and creative ideas and
interventions are offered and described, for use by practitioners
of every school and method.
Gestalt Therapy provides an introduction to the theory, historical
evolution, research, and practice of this process-oriented approach
to psychotherapy. Gestalt therapy arose as a reaction to
psychodynamism and behaviorism, the dominant approaches of the
mid-twentieth century. Its major tenets - a rejection of
traditional notions of objectivity, a radical (for the time) focus
on building rapport between therapist and client as a relationship
of equals, careful attention to the bodily sensations that
accompany strong emotions, and a guiding belief in the therapy room
as a problem-solving laboratory in which experimental approaches
towards interpersonal relations can be attempted in a safe setting
- have been widely incorporated into a broad range of approaches
today. Open-ended and inquisitive rather than a rigid, manualized
set of techniques, Gestalt is a set of guiding principles that
inspire an active, present-focused, relational stance on the part
of the therapist. This essential primer, amply illustrated with
case examples featuring diverse clients, is perfect for graduate
students studying theories of therapy and counseling, as well as
for seasoned practitioners interested in understanding how this
approach has evolved and how it might be used in their own
practice.
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, and their families and worlds. From the theoretical to
the hands-on, and from the clinical office or playroom to family
settings, schools, institutions, and the community, these chapters
take us on a rewarding tour of the vibrant, productive range of
Gestalt work today, always focusing on the first two decades of
life. With each new topic and setting, fresh and creative ideas and
interventions are offered and described, for use by practitioners
of every school and method.
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.
In this original and penetrating work, the origins of the Gestalt
psychotherapy model are traced back to its roots in psychoanalysis
and Gestalt cognitive and perceptual psychology. Drawing new
implications for both Gestalt and psychotherapy in general from
these origins - and with special emphasis on the neglected work of
Lewis and Goldstein - Wheeler develops a revised model that is more
fully "Gestalt" and at the same time more firmly grounded in the
spectrum of tools and approaches available to the contemporary
psychotherapist. Along the way, a number of new insights are
offered, not just in Gestalt, but in the working of the
psychoanalytic and cognitive/behavioral models. The result is an
integrated approach giving a fresh perspective on the universal
processes of contact and resistance, both in psychotherapy and in
social systems in general. The practitioner is given these tools
for "addressing problems at the intra- and interpersonal level and
wider systematic levels at the same time, and in the same
language." Each chapter stands alone, and makes a fresh and
significant contribution to its particular subject. Taken together,
they constitute a remarkable excursion through the history of
psychotherapy in this century, weaving powerfully through social
psychology, behaviorism, and Gestalt itself, yielding a masterful
new synthesis that will interest the practitioners of Gestalt and
other schools alike.
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