How much would you be willing to spend to be able to walk away from your business for a day, a week, or a month with less worry? All while building and empowering your team to take on more responsibilities.

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Here is what Lynne Jacobs, coauthor of The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy and a founder of the Pacific Gestalt Institute, writes in her introduction to this book ." . . Ribiero [is] considered by many to be the "father" of Gestalt therapy and theory in Brazil. He has certainly nurtured the Brazilian Gestalt therapy "baby" from its earliest days onward with care, with dedication, with education and training, with exhortation and argument, and finally, with the shining quality of his presence. Brazil now has a thriving Gestalt community, richly diverse in thought and practice, alive with the squabbles and rivalries and loves of an extended family, one that owes a debt to this man and his writings. These inspiring writings are finally making their way to the English-speaking Gestalt world in the September of his life."

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 Gestalt therapy.

The book is divided thematically into three sections. The first section speculates on the history and development of relationality in terms of Gestalt therapy. Chapters that discuss the patient-therapist relationship comprise the second section, and include explorations into uncertainty in interpretation and understanding, attunement and optimal responsiveness, working with shame, and negotiating individuality and "betweenness." The last section opens up to groups and organizations, applying relational approaches to Gestalt therapeutic encounters with more than one patient.