Adam Kincel is a gestalt therapist, supervisor, and trainer based in the UK. His work focuses on the co-emergence of embodied relational therapy and political issues.

I think the book is an important, creative, thoughtful contribution to gestalt therapy research and practice... Adam’s ability to intermingle history/culture/politics with specific moments-in-living is rare... He expands our boundaries of inclusiveness.Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., Co-founder of Pacific Gestalt Institute; Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis The use of Autoethnography to explore, interrogate and challenge aspects of therapy culture is always welcome. Adam does this in fascinating, courageous and engaging ways in this text... The Gestalt community should rejoice!Alec Grant, PhD, Independent Scholar; co-editor of Contemporary British Autoethnography, and International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice You have in front of you a landmark book that deserves attention on many different counts. From the foreword by Malcolm Parlet, PhD, the author of Future Sense

• 1. Welcome 2. Defining the collective gestalt: what I have learned from large groups 3. Masculinity and male sexuality: how did my teenage years shape the man that I am becoming? 4. Embodiment of heteronormativity: building the field for addressing collective gestalts 5. (Un)related bodies: collective gestalts that shape gestalt training 6. Philosophies that inspired this book 7. Culture as ground; personal becoming as figure: autoethnography and gestalt therapy 8. Conclusion

Adam Kincel is a gestalt therapist, supervisor, and trainer based in the UK. His work focuses on the co-emergence of embodied relational therapy and political issues.

I think the book is an important, creative, thoughtful contribution to gestalt therapy research and practice... Adam’s ability to intermingle history/culture/politics with specific moments-in-living is rare... He expands our boundaries of inclusiveness.Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., Co-founder of Pacific Gestalt Institute; Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis The use of Autoethnography to explore, interrogate and challenge aspects of therapy culture is always welcome. Adam does this in fascinating, courageous and engaging ways in this text... The Gestalt community should rejoice!Alec Grant, PhD, Independent Scholar; co-editor of Contemporary British Autoethnography, and International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice You have in front of you a landmark book that deserves attention on many different counts. From the foreword by Malcolm Parlet, PhD, the author of Future Sense

• 1. Welcome 2. Defining the collective gestalt: what I have learned from large groups 3. Masculinity and male sexuality: how did my teenage years shape the man that I am becoming? 4. Embodiment of heteronormativity: building the field for addressing collective gestalts 5. (Un)related bodies: collective gestalts that shape gestalt training 6. Philosophies that inspired this book 7. Culture as ground; personal becoming as figure: autoethnography and gestalt therapy 8. Conclusion

Adam Kincel is a gestalt therapist, supervisor, and trainer based in the UK. His work focuses on the co-emergence of embodied relational therapy and political issues.

I think the book is an important, creative, thoughtful contribution to gestalt therapy research and practice... Adam’s ability to intermingle history/culture/politics with specific moments-in-living is rare... He expands our boundaries of inclusiveness.Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., Co-founder of Pacific Gestalt Institute; Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis The use of Autoethnography to explore, interrogate and challenge aspects of therapy culture is always welcome. Adam does this in fascinating, courageous and engaging ways in this text... The Gestalt community should rejoice!Alec Grant, PhD, Independent Scholar; co-editor of Contemporary British Autoethnography, and International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice You have in front of you a landmark book that deserves attention on many different counts. From the foreword by Malcolm Parlet, PhD, the author of Future Sense

• 1. Welcome 2. Defining the collective gestalt: what I have learned from large groups 3. Masculinity and male sexuality: how did my teenage years shape the man that I am becoming? 4. Embodiment of heteronormativity: building the field for addressing collective gestalts 5. (Un)related bodies: collective gestalts that shape gestalt training 6. Philosophies that inspired this book 7. Culture as ground; personal becoming as figure: autoethnography and gestalt therapy 8. Conclusion