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Global Perspectives on
Research, Theory,
and Practice
Global Perspectives on
Research, Theory,
and Practice

A Decade of Gestalt!

Edited by

Brian J. Mistler and Philip Brownell

Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice:
A Decade of Gestalt!

Edited by Brian J. Mistler and Philip Brownell

This book first published 2015

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Copyright © 2015 by Brian J. Mistler, Philip Brownell and contributors

All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without
the prior permission of the copyright owner.

ISBN (10): 1-4438-7079-X

ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-7079-5
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword ..................................................................................................... x
Peter Philippson

Gestalt Therapy in the World of Contemporary Media ............................. xii

Charlie Bowman

Acknowledgements ................................................................................... xv

Introduction ................................................................................................. 1
Words I Wish I Wrote: An Anthology of Practical Gestalt Theory
Brian J. Mistler

Chapter One ............................................................................................... 11

A Perspective on Online Process: The Origins and Original Vision
of Gestalt!, the Online Journal
Philip Brownell

Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 16

Validating Gestalt: An Interview with Leslie Greenberg
Leslie Greenberg and Philip Brownell

Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 36

Ethics and Training Practices: A Call for Discussion
Philip Brownell, Jay Levin and Brian O’Neill

Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 44

Psychotherapy and Soul Care: Toward a Clinical Rapprochement
Jay Uomoto

Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 50

Clausewitz Here and Now: Military Obedience and Gestalt Theory
Bruce Barrett
vi Table of Contents

Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 67

Ethical Considerations in Working with Religious Clients
Dan Carpenter

Chapter Seven............................................................................................ 77
Aroah or What Constitutes Healing in Psychotherapy
Rudolf Jarosewitsch

Chapter Eight ............................................................................................. 84

Renewing Our Roots in Neuropsychology: A Gestalt Perspective
on the Work of Joseph LeDoux
Philip Brownell.

Chapter Nine.............................................................................................. 89
Dialogue and Paradox: In Training with Lynne Jacobs, the “Dialogue
Maven”
Lynne Jacobs

Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 108

Stories About Knowing: A View from Family Therapy
David Pocock
with responses from Sylvia Crocker and Rodger Bufford

Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 130

Adding Women’s Voices: Feminism and Gestalt Therapy
M’Lou Caring, Cynthia Cook, Gail Feinstein, Iris Fodor, Zelda Friedman,
Alice Gerstman, Susan Jurkowski, Maria Kirchner, and Ruth Wolfert

Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 139

Gestalt Therapy Groups: Why?
Serge and Anne Ginger of Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt (EPG, Paris France)
with responses by Jon Frew and Bud Feder

Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 161

Thoughts on Music: Why We Have It, Why We Do It,
and Why We Like It
John Wymore

Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 168

Dialogue and Being
Colin R. Purcell-Lee, Manchester University
with responses by Lynne Jacobs and Gary Yontef
 Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice vii

Chapter Fifteen ........................................................................................ 190

Prelude to Contemporary Gestalt Therapy
Charles Bowman and Philip Brownell

Chapter Sixteen ....................................................................................... 197

The Spiritual Dimensions of Gestalt Therapy
Ruth Wolfer

Chapter Seventeen ................................................................................... 203

Gestalt Therapy Theory: An Overview
Maria Kirchner

Chapter Eighteen ..................................................................................... 223

Clinical Supervision: A Gestalt-Humanistic Framework
Yaro Starak

Chapter Nineteen ..................................................................................... 237

The Working Corner
Victor Daniels.

Chapter Twenty ....................................................................................... 240

Discussions at Gstalt-L: Check-In; Impasse; Field & Boundary
Sylvia Crocker, Philip Brownell, Gerhard Stemberger,
Steve (Vinay) Gunther, Bruno Just, Amit Sen and Ruth Wolfer

Chapter Twenty-One ............................................................................... 268

Projection and Self Psychology
Robert Feldhaus

Chapter Twenty-Two............................................................................... 278

Spirituality, Dialogue, and the Phenomenological Method
Sylvia Crocker

Chapter Twenty-Three............................................................................. 283

Psychotherapy and Our Search for Meaning
Brian O’Neill, with letters to the editor by Bud Feder and Philip Brownell

Chapter Twenty-Four .............................................................................. 300

Letters to the Editor: Thoughts Inspired by Joseph Melnick’s Article
on the Meanings of “Marginal” in Gestalt Review
John Wymore
viii Table of Contents

Chapter Twenty-Five ............................................................................... 304

To Ground Zero and Back Again
Charles Bowman

Chapter Twenty-Six................................................................................. 318

Airline Crash Survivors, Vietnam Veterans, and 9-11
Carol H. Pollard, Carl Mitchell, and Victor Daniels

Chapter Twenty-Seven ............................................................................ 330

Insight Dialogue Meditation with Anxiety Problems
Jungkyu Kim and Gregory Kramer

Chapter Twenty-Eight ............................................................................. 337

Gestalten
John Wymore

Chapter Twenty-Nine .............................................................................. 342

Contemporary Challenges in the Application of Perls’ Five-Layer Theory
Peter Philippson

Chapter Thirty ......................................................................................... 348

It’s Not Easy Being a Field Theorist: Commentary on “Cartesian
and Post-Cartesian Trends in Relational Psychoanalysis
(authors Robert Stolorow, Donna Orange and George Atwood)
Lynne Jacobs

Chapter Thirty-One ................................................................................. 361

The Impossible Toilet
Claire Salisbury in conversation with Debbie Friedman

Chapter Thirty-Two ................................................................................. 365

Love, Admiration, or Safety: A System of Gestalt Diagnosis of Borderline,
Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations that Focuses on what is Figure
for the Client
Elinor Greenberg

Chapter Thirty-Three ............................................................................... 382

Perceiving You Perceiving Me: Self-Conscious Emotions and Gestalt
Therapy
Philip Brownell
 Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice ix

Chapter Thirty-Four................................................................................. 395

Schema Therapy: A Gestalt-Oriented Overview
Scott H. Kellogg
with responses by Dan Bloom, Philip Brownell, Iris Fodor
and Scott Kellogg

Chapter Thirty-Five ................................................................................. 454

In Transition: Gestalting Theory from Practice, Practice from Theory
Seán Gaffney, with Brian Mistler, Sue Congram, and Philip Brownell

Chapter Thirty-Six ................................................................................... 482

Structuring Background by Letting Go of Clinging and Avoidance
Jungkyu Kim

Chapter Thirty-Seven .............................................................................. 493

A Background to “The Field”
Jean-Marie Robine

Appendix I ............................................................................................... 504

Gstalt-L: A Virtual, Electronic Community
Philip Brownell

Appendix II.............................................................................................. 523

Email Haiku (from the AAGT mailing list 1995-1996)

Contributors ............................................................................................. 525

Index ........................................................................................................ 536

 FOREWORD

PETER PHILIPPSON

This book is a tribute to Phil Brownell’s work in providing online

resources (at Gestalt! and the Gstalt-L list) for Gestaltists from different
countries and traditions to engage with each other, and with each other’s
ideas - I think you will see from some of these chapters the ongoing
relationships, friendships, competition and the general buzz of lively
engagement behind the discussion of ideas.
You will be able to get to know the individual voices: those like Lynne
Jacobs who question and criticize the legacy of our founders, particularly
Fritz Perls, and those like Maria Kirchner and myself who value it; those
(Phil Brownell, Sylvia Crocker and the late Ruth Wolfert) who want to
bring the ‘spiritual’ or religious into Gestalt thinking and those like John
Wymore, with his integration of evolutionary psychology and Gestalt
Therapy, and myself who take an atheistic viewpoint; those who write
more about theory (Maria Kirchner and Scott Kellogg) and those who
write more about practice (Victor Daniels and Elinor Greenberg); those
who use the language of story and myth (Rudolf Jarosewitch), and those
who use the language of science and research (Greenberg and Brownell).
You will find reflections on culture and language (Jungkyu Kim and
Rudolf Jarosewitch), a focus that is one of the major strengths of a writing
and dialoguing community meeting on the internet.
I think it is important to bear in mind that all of this writing is an
expression of our interest and excitement. We were not looking to make a
financial profit, but giving our time and energy to what we found
important, both things to say and people to meet. These are labours of
love!
They are also labours of intellect. The rigid application of a denial of
intellectual engagement as ‘elephant-shit’ both devalues the theoretical
basis of Gestalt Therapy and, maybe more importantly, puts the trainee
and the client in a one-down position of not being able to know and
critique what the trainer or therapist is doing, or from what values and
understandings they are coming.
 Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice xi

So I wish you much pleasure with these chapters, and I send a warm
hello to my fellow scribes. And remember, if you have thoughts you want
to share on any of what we write about, you can join in the ongoing
conversation at the Gstalt-L list.

Peter Philippson
Manchester, UK
30th August 2014
 GESTALT THERAPY IN THE WORLD
OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

CHARLIE BOWMAN

For those of us who have practiced gestalt therapy for a while,

reviewing the archives of Gestalt! is a relational walk down memory lane.
From the first editorial by Morgan Goodlander to recollections of friends
no longer with us in practice or in spirit, I am reminded of the rich tapestry
interwoven by the gestalt community over the years. Nothing has served to
weave this tapestry more than the Internet and electronic technology,
although it has not been without a struggle. C. S. Lewis wrote, “It may be
hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to
learn to fly while remaining an egg.” Fulfilling the dual mission of
advancing and associating required AAGT to take the leap into what was
then considered non-traditional communication.
In 1995, the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt therapy
(AAGT) launched an ambitious campaign to subscribe members to an
“Internet Mailbox.” The Spring, 1995 AAGT Newsletter offered
complicated instructions for subscribing to [email protected] and coaxed
subscriptions by identifying members who were communicating online
“from as far away as Australia and Capetown, South Africa.” Brian
O’Hara accepted the newly created position “Internet Coordinator” and he,
Phil Brownell and I spent a lot of time back and forth trying to coax
AAGT members to connect online. Growth was agonizingly slow (see
Appendix II).
Gestalt therapists have preferred face-to-face contact to electronic
media since these early days of teleconferencing and electronic mailboxes.
Early discussions about the nature of contact and electronic
communication were at times heated, with the jury out on whether or not
electronic communications, let alone electronic communities, were valid
means of contacting. Such growing pains make little sense today
(particularly for a therapy that holds novelty with such centrality).
Nonetheless, AAGT and the gestalt community forged ahead in the
tradition established in the 1960’s by Fritz Perls for using cutting-edge
technology. His early recording equipment can still be found at the
 Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice xiii

Humanistic Psychology Special Collections at the University of California

- Santa Barbara.
The growth of gestalt therapy through electronic media has been
remarkable and well documented elsewhere. The lion’s share of
responsibility for this growth belongs with Gestalt Global Corporation.
The brainchild of Phil Brownell, this non-profit organization was
dedicated to facilitating the growth and development of gestalt therapy by
building a global community, publishing, and research. In 1997, Gestalt
Global launched Gestalt!, the first electronic gestalt journal. Gestalt!
experimented with different writing techniques and supported the
expression and development of ideas much more than adherence to
publication style. After publishing ten volumes of the journal, many of
which were dedicated to AAGT conferences and member interests, Phil
offered editorship to AAGT. At the 2010 membership meeting and
conference AAGT members expressed their support and consensus for
adopting the online journal as the official journal of AAGT. Phil, Dan
Bloom and I offered to co-edit the journal and welcomed the opportunity
for creative collaboration.
AAGT embraced the journal, touting it as a publication interested in
developing new writing in the field and offering support to less
experienced writers in their projects – goals Phil had promoted from the
start. AAGT’s stewardship of Gestalt! was short lived and the journal was
put quietly to rest in 2012. Emerson said it neatly- “There is never enough
time to do or say all the things that we would wish; the thing is to do as
much as you can in the time that you have.” While AAGT ultimately laid
Gestalt! to rest as a result of never having enough time, Brian Mistler and
Phil Brownell have done yeoman work bringing us Gestalt! in the time
that they have made to preserve the best of the best.
So here you are, holding decades of gestalt therapy in your hands,
about to glimpse the evolution of gestalt therapy as it happened. Like
Walter Cronkite’s very popular television show of the mid-1950’s, You
Are There, the hot topics of the day spring into life. Fresh ideas about
research, ethics, spirituality, or mindfulness are flanked by more stalwart
topics concerning gestalt therapy and dialogue, paradox, classical theory
or self-psychology. Relive the respondent’s wrestling with love, or music,
or trauma – often sparked by current events and carried over from the live
dialogue of the Gstalt-L discussion list.
xiv Gestalt Therapy in the World of Contemporary Media

Being free from the shackles of traditional publishing meant the

authors could focus more on contemporaneity and relevance. This allowed
the on line gestalt community to live up to Einstein’s advice, “The
important thing is not to stop questioning.” As you peruse the pages of this
book, keep Einstein’s advice in mind. Read. Question. Dialogue. That’s
what we did!

Charlie Bowman
August 2014
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I offer first my biggest thanks to all of the wonderful writers whose

work appears in this volume and to everyone who made Gestalt! possible.
Simultaneously, I offer my apologies to both the authors and to you (each
reader) for any errors introduced or misstatements I have made in
summarizing the pieces or their composers – for any that interfere with the
reader’s ability to understand the piece or inevitably fail to do justice to a
group of writers I both admire and reassure, there is no excuse; I
apologize. Personally, I want to thank my sister, both of my parents, my
dear co-workers and friends in Florida, New York, and around the world
for their love and support through many of my projects, this included. I am
especially appreciative to series editor and volume co-editor Philip
Brownell for his vision, faith, collaborative spirit, and tireless work ethic.
And, my deepest gratitude to all of the mentors and teachers throughout
my journey – especially, to Peter White for his early role in my path to
psychotherapy, to Drs. Jeff VanLone and Tammy Walsh, wonderful
supervisors and even better people, and to Dr. M. Pat Korb at the Gestalt
Center of Gainesville who, in her 80s when I met her, taught me more
about Gestalt Therapy – therapy period – in my six years of training with
her than I imagined possible; I remain indebted beyond words.

Brian J. Mistler
August 2, 2014
Sarasota, Florida

***

First, I express here as clearly and directly as I can, my appreciation for

Brian Mistler. He has been part of the dialoguing community to which
Peter Philippson referred in his foreword, but beyond that, when the vision
for this book emerged, he was eager to contribute by volunteering to edit
the anthology. And that he has done.1 I was preoccupied with other

1
As mentioned elsewhere in this volume, Brian and I decided to leave as much of
the original listings and styles as possible so as to reflect the nature of the online
xvi Gestalt Therapy in the World of Contemporary Media

obligations and Brian has done the clear majority of the work preparing
this manuscript. I am deeply appreciative of his work, because I very much
wanted to preserve as much of Gestalt! as possible.
Second, I want to thank the people who contributed to Gestalt! over
the years that it was published. It is obvious that without their willingness
to write for the journal that it would not have existed. And exist it did, at
one point being listed in the PsychInfo database of the American
Psychological Association. In another sense, though, these people
contributed to my professional understanding of gestalt therapy, to my
appreciation for different cultures and worldviews, and they helped me to
become a better psychotherapist.
I also want to express my appreciation for the people at Cambridge
Scholars Publishing who had the interest in establishing this series of
books focused on the world of contemporary gestalt therapy. They provide
a valuable resource to students and scholars of all kinds of subjects, but in
this case certainly of gestalt psychotherapy, consulting, and coaching.

Philip Brownell
August 12, 2014
From Above Mizzentop
Warwick, Bermuda

journal. Thus, you will find a variety in reference styles, for instance, and that is no
reflection on Brian. It’s the way it came together in the online environment.
 INTRODUCTION

WORDS I WISH I WROTE:

AN ANTHOLOGY OF PRACTICAL
GESTALT THEORY

BRIAN J. MISTLER, PH.D.

What an incredible collection of interesting and accessible information

you’re holding in your hands (or browsing on your screen). Kurt Lewin
(1951) wrote, “There is nothing so practical as a good theory,” and by that
measure, this is among the most practical books you’ll encounter. This
book brings together both a fascinating record of the history of one of
Gestalt Therapy’s most important journals, Gestalt!, and a diverse
collection of writings on a representative – to the point of being quite
comprehensive – scope of topics related to Gestalt therapy theory,
research, and practice. One of my favorite non-Gestalt authors, Robert
Fulghum (1999) edited a book with the headline title “Words I Wish I
Wrote”. As I have poured over this material, I found that same thought
returning to me again and again – how insightful, how succinctly put, how
many times I have had such questions or begun to consider such
conclusions and how I wish I had been able to articulate them as
wonderfully as the authors do herein. And, even on a fourth or fifth
reading of these chapters, I have found some new gift each author has
given to deepen or expand our understanding of Gestalt Therapy.
Fulghum’s edited book (lying open to the table of contents next to me
on the end table as I type on my laptop) includes the works of great minds
like Dylan Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kurt Vonnegut, Lao Tzu, Shel
Silverstein, Albert Camus, and William Butler Yeats. Just as I imagine
these authors are to Robert Fulghum, so many of the writers whose work
appears in this volume have been influential to me in my development as a
psychologist and in my understanding of Gestalt Therapy. It has been thus
both a special honor to co-edit this volume as well as an educational
delight to revisit these works in the process. The result of this process is a
2 Introduction

treasure for me and I hope too for you, the reader, of a vast and impressive
collection of incredible thought bound together in a way that I am
convinced will be useful for seasoned practitioners and researchers. If you
are a student approaching Gestalt Therapy for the first time, you will find
no better introduction to this phenomenological, existential, and
behavioral-based approach to therapy which emphasizes wholes, therapist
development, the therapist-client relationship, and being in the present
moment (Mistler, 2009). Not just for experts wishing to go deeper, this
volume is also a fantastic reference and anthology of Gestalt Therapy for
students at all levels.
To accomplish this scope, this book captures most of the first decade
of the online journal Gestalt! (ISSN 1091–1766). No tradition survives
without a way of passing information on from practitioner to practitioner,
decade to decade, generation to generation. As a tradition grows, the
means of transmission changes, and is simultaneously affected as
technology affords new methods. Certainly the invention of the printing
press revolutionized the transmission of a great deal of information to an
expanse of people who previously could not have imagined access. The
internet has offered a revolution of comparable or greater magnitude, and
true to their cutting edge reputation, leading practitioners of Gestalt
Therapy from around the world came together to create an important body
of information about our field at a time that online access to materials was
in its infancy. When the internet was young, Gestalt! became one of the
first completely online, electronic journals for a professional audience. It
featured full-text articles and interviews, reviews of books, and
proceedings of various conferences for the global community of gestalt
therapy practitioners. Some of the most prominent names in contemporary
gestalt therapy appeared in the journal, and a review of the table of
contents for this volume reads like a veritable Who’s Who of the
contemporary Gestalt Therapy world.
In both the story of the journal and the current volume, Phil Brownell,
my co-editor, deserves great laudation, for his vision, leadership, and
persistent effort in making two important visions a reality: the first, a free
access peer-reviewed international journal Gestalt!, and now together, a
way to ensure this important reservoir of insights and knowledge is
accessible into the future. In Chapter One, Dr. Phil Brownell, the founder
and Sr. Editor of Gestalt! describes how the journal came into being and
what its original vision was in an original piece titled: A Perspective on
Online Process–The Origins and Original Vision of Gestalt!, the online
journal. In Chapter Two, Validating Gestalt: An Interview with Leslie
Greenberg (first published in Gestalt! 1(1), 1997) Philip Brownell shares
 Words I Wish I Wrote: An Anthology of Practical Gestalt Theory 3

an interview with researcher, writer, and gestalt-trained psychotherapist

Leslie Greenberg covering issues related to gestalt theory and practice as
well as issues related to research validity and evidence-based practice.
In Chapter Three, Ethics and Training Practices: A Call for Discussion
(first published in Gestalt! 1(2), 1997) Philip Brownell, Jay Levin, and
Brian O’Neill offer a call for a public discussion of two issues affecting
the practice of Gestalt therapy. The first concern is that of ethical
guidelines for practice and the second area is an exploration of the models
utilized for training in Gestalt therapy. The authors make clear that at
times these differences may even give rise to conflicting ideas of what "is"
Gestalt therapy, or what is "good" or "bad" Gestalt therapy. The lack of
clarity and criteria regarding professional practice, ethical guidelines, and
values inherent in Gestalt therapy makes a coherent standard a seeming
impossibility, however, the authors never-the-less offer a noble and
engaging attempt to open a discussion and clarify the wider field of
professional practice and training.
The concept of the soul is not a stranger either to the field of
psychology or the practice of psychotherapy, and its nature has been
debated within philosophical circles for centuries. In Chapter Four:
Psychotherapy and Soul Care: Toward a Clinical Rapprochement (first
published in Gestalt! 1(2), 1997), Jay Uomoto explores how concern for
the soul and its centrality to human suffering and functioning in this world
seems to have touched numerous levels of society today including
consumers of popular psychology and spirituality to those involved in
medicine and biomedical ethics....Soul care has now come into vogue as a
viable and vital means of healing emotional wounds, bringing a new
perspective to human suffering, providing a context within which to
understand suffering, and dissipating some of the meaninglessness that
comes with human finitude.
From a fascinating military and gestalt vantage, in Chapter Five:
Clausewitz Here and Now: Military Obedience and Gestalt Theory (first
published in Gestalt! 1(2), 1997), Bruce Barrett, draws on the Gestalt
Theoretical Psychology, including Gestalt Therapy, to highlights of
conceptual and practical insights into non-clinical life challenges and their
solutions. From this framework he explores classical problems in the art of
war and military history, practical problems in battlefield operations, and
the identification and understanding of successful soldiering all can benefit
from the holistic Gestalt theoretical perspective. In Chapter Six, Ethical
Considerations in Working with Religious Clients, by Dan Carpenter (first
published in Gestalt! 1(2), 1997), the author summarizes some of the
dangers inherent in working with spirituality, while at the same time
4 Introduction

challenging the clinician to take advantage of religious issues in therapy.

Gestalt therapists, he contents, are seen as particularly equipped for this
type of work, being focused on a dialogical relationship as opposed to a
rigid challenging of the client's religious beliefs.
In Chapter Seven, titled Aroah or What Constitutes Healing in
Psychotherapy (first published in Gestalt! 1(3), 1997), Rudolf Jarosewitsch
explores what living in New Zealand is like, how the culture affected his
work as a gestalt therapist, and according to native island culture what
makes for healing in psychotherapy. In Chapter Eight, Renewing Our
Roots in Neuropsychology: A Gestalt Perspective on the Work of Joseph
LeDoux (first published in Gestalt! 2(1), 1998) Philip Brownell presents a
review of The Emotional Brain, by Joseph LeDoux, with particular focus
on how his work in neurology and neuropsychology relates to and is
relevant for contemporary gestalt therapy, pointing back to the work of
Kurt Goldstein. Chapter Nine, Dialogue and Paradox: In Training with
Lynne Jacobs, the “Dialogue Maven” offers a transcript of a training
lecture about dialogue and gestalt therapy given by Lynne Jacobs at the
Portland Gestalt Training Institute, Portland, Oregon, USA and first
published in Gestalt! 2(1), 1998.
All psychotherapies have to consider the philosophical questions of
how we think we know anything. If the gestalt of the patient can only be
perceived with the gestalt of the therapist, then all that the therapist can
say about the gestalt of the other is that which the therapist has created. In
Chapter Ten, Stories About Knowing: A View from Family Therapy,
David Pocock ask, “What is the relationship between this creation in the
mind of the therapist and the real patient?”, with responses from Sylvia
Crocker, and Rodger Bufford (first published in Gestalt! (2(1), 1998).
Chapter Eleven, Adding Women’s Voices: Feminism and Gestalt
Therapy, brings together a number of attendees at a special interest group
event at the 1998 AAGT conference aiming to extending their voices
beyond the workshop, and welcome the reader into their ongoing process.
This piece is contributed to by M’Lou Caring, Cynthia Cook, Gail
Feinstein, Iris Fodor, Zelda Friedman, Alice Gerstman, Susan Jurkowski,
Maria Kirchner, and Ruth Wolfert and was first published in Gestalt!,
3(1), 1999.
In Chapter Twelve, “Gestalt Therapy Groups: Why?” Serge and Anne
Ginger of Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt (EPG, Paris France) highlight the
richness of gestalt therapy groups versus traditional individual therapy
with great responses by Jon Frew and Bud Feder (first published in
Gestalt!, 4(1), 2000). John Wymore, Chapter Thirteen, writes on
Thoughts on Music: Why We Have It, Why We Do It, and Why We
 Words I Wish I Wrote: An Anthology of Practical Gestalt Theory 5

Like It (first published in Gestalt! 4(1), 2000), exploring the

neuropsychology behind music from an evolutionary psychology and
gestalt therapy perspective.
Dialogue and Being is title and topic of Chapter 14, by Colin R.
Purcell-Lee with responses by Lynne Jacobs and Gary Yontef. First
published in Gestalt! 4(2), 2000, it explores several central issues
regarding the I-Thou relationship, including its non-verifiability and
ontological versus epistemological nature. In Chapter Fifteen, Prelude to
Contemporary Gestalt Therapy, Charles Bowman and Philip Brownell
jointly present a summary (first published in Gestalt! 4(3), 2000, and still
deeply relevant today), of the three periods that characterize the historical
process leading to present gestalt therapy: the predecessors to gestalt
psychology, the school of gestalt psychology itself, and the development
of gestalt psychotherapy. In Chapter Sixteen, The Spiritual Dimensions
of Gestalt Therapy, Ruth Wolfert presents her take on the spirituality
resident in gestalt therapy, presenting gestalt therapy as a holistic therapy
with a greater spiritual foundation than is utilized by most Gestalt
therapists. Based, in part, on teachings from Buddhism and Taoism, this
piece was first published in Gestalt! 4(3), 2000.
In Chapter Seventeen Maria Kirchner offers an overview of Gestalt
Therapy Theory, first published in Gestalt! 4(3), 2000, starting with a
short introduction and highlighting gestalt therapy’s philosophical roots
and the gestalt view of human nature, functioning and dysfunctioning, and
a listing of major methods of gestalt therapy and multicultural
considerations. Chapter Eighteen, Clinical Supervision: A Gestalt-
Humanistic Framework, was originally written by Yaro Starak to serve as
a focus for discussion with a group of supervisors-in-training at the
University of Queensland, Australia, as an attempt to develop a
professional supervision framework that could serve as a model for
supervision of psychotherapists and counselors (first published in Gestalt!
5(1), 2001). Victor Daniels wrote a column in several issues of Gestalt!,
each time discussing various aspects of clinical work and giving examples.
Chapter Nineteen, presents examples of two of those columns.
Chapter Twenty, titled “Discussions at Gstalt-L: Check-In; Impasse;
Field & Boundary” captures the nature of the gestalt participants at the
online community called Gstalt-L, and it includes portions of two of its
various discussions: one on the impasse in therapy and the second on field
dynamics in gestalt therapy. The particular discussion captured here
includes Sylvia Crocker, Philip Brownell, Gerhard Stemberger, Steve
(Vinay) Gunther, Bruno Just, Amit Sen, and Ruth Wolfert. When Gstalt-L
began, in 1996, the big issue was what had occurred at the first AAGT
6 Introduction

conference when Richard Kitzler demonstrated his work and Jeffery

Schaler watched. Actually, a great deal of energy was spent on debating
various issues coming from a piece Schaler wrote about Kitzler's work,
and published online, called "Bad Therapy." At Gstalt-L Dr. Schaler
engaged Robert Feldhaus and others in a running debate on ethics and
practice. One of the finest moments from those discussions, which took
about three months, was this statement from Robert Feldhaus (edited to
present Dr. Feldhaus's statements without his quoting of others on the list).
It is given in Chapter Twenty-One and titled Projection and Self
Psychology, by Robert Feldhaus, first published in Gestalt! 5(2), 2001.
In Chapter Twenty-Two Sylvia Crocker explores that nature and
relationship of dialogue and the phenomenological method, culminating in
the mystery of interpersonal discovery (first published in Gestalt! 5(3),
2001). In Chapter Twenty-Three, Brian O’Neill describes the field of
psychotherapy as impacted by various perspectives on spirituality,
advocating for the integration of spiritual process in the otherwise holistic
gestalt approach. In a letter, Bud Feder objects to spirituality being grafted
into gestalt therapy, because he believes that it is not needed and Philip
Brownell responds thoughtfully to both (first published in Gestalt! 5(3),
2001). In a letter to the editor first published in Gestalt! 5(3), 2001, John
Wymore shares his concerns over Joe Melnick's lament on the
marginalization of Gestalt therapy, as he expressed it in a recent issue of
Gestalt Review, presented here in Chapter Twenty-Four.
Shortly after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington,
Charlie Bowman became heavily involved in the trauma debriefing work
at ground zero. As he put in extensive hours talking with people, a
passionate debate erupted at Gstalt-L on the antecedents, contributing
influences, and the responsibilities for the attacks. Charlie’s simple stories,
shared once in the middle of these discussions, changed the nature of them
dramatically and, along with Charlie’s responses to questions by Gestalt!
Sr. Editor, led to the creation of the “To Ground Zero and Back Again”,
presented in Chapter Twenty-Five and previously published in Gestalt!
6(1), 2002. Chapter Twenty-Six, “Airline Crash Survivors, Vietnam
Veterans, and 9-11 by Carol H. Pollard, Carl Mitchell, and Victor Daniels
(first published in Gestalt! 6(1), 2002) presents another perspective on the
9-11 tragedy. This chapter offers results of a qualitative study of fifteen
flight attendants involved in airline crashes or hijackings and what they
found therapeutic. The results suggest psychoanalytic and other minimally
directive approaches were generally viewed as frustrating and ineffective,
while several more directive approaches were found to have value.
Methods of applying gestalt therapy to problems and issues reported by
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