| The Emergent Self: An Existential-Gestalt Approach Contributor(s): Philippson, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367105845 ISBN-13: 9780367105846 Publisher: Routledge
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2019 Click for more in this series: United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling - Psychology | Movements - Gestalt - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| Series: United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" L (0.85 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book tracks a particular understanding of self, philosophically, from research evidence and in its implications for psychotherapy. At each step, the author includes first the theory he is working from, then the clinical implications of the theory, followed by some links to the philosophical outlook inherent in the theory, and finally a more extended case example.It takes the view that the continuing self is partly an illusion, partly a construct, and that we in fact have to work to stay the same in the face of all the different possibilities the world offers us. The author believes that we do this for two reasons. First of all, continuity allows deeper contact: friendships, loving relationships with partners and families. Secondly, and balancing this, the predictable is less anxiety-producing, and that we avoid this existential anxiety by acting in a stereotyped way and avoiding some of the depths of contact. |
Contributor Bio(s): Philippson, Peter: - Peter Philippson is a UKCP Registered Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer, a Teaching and Supervising Member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute UK, a founder member of Manchester Gestalt Centre, Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, senior trainer for GITA (Slovenia) and a guest trainer for many training programs internationally. He is the author of Self in Relation, co-author of Contact and Relationship in a Field Perspective, chapter respondent in Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory and Practice, editor of The Nature of Pain and, (with John Harris), co-author of Gestalt: Working with Groups, co-editor of Topics in Gestalt Therapy, and author of many papers on Gestalt therapy in British, French, American, Australian, Canadian and Spanish Gestalt Journals. He is on the Editorial Board of Studies in Gestalt Therapy, an Editorial Advisor of the British Gestalt Journal, and is currently President of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy. |
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