This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens.

Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on clinical issues – a situational window, which includes the therapist and avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field. Through clinical case studies and theoretical reflections, the book examines the experience of children, difficult childhood situations (such as separations, abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent social closure), the experience of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of patients, and second, the aesthetic relational knowing, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated.

Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach is essential reading for Gestalt therapists as well as all clinicians with an interest in phenomenological and aesthetic understanding of the complexity of clinical situations.

This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens.

Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on clinical issues – a situational window, which includes the therapist and avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field. Through clinical case studies and theoretical reflections, the book examines the experience of children, difficult childhood situations (such as separations, abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent social closure), the experience of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of patients, and second, the aesthetic relational knowing, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated.

Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach is essential reading for Gestalt therapists as well as all clinicians with an interest in phenomenological and aesthetic understanding of the complexity of clinical situations.

Der gestalttherapeutische Ansatz ist vor allem für seine große Bandbreite an therapeutischen Interventionen bekannt. Kreativität ist ein entscheidender Gradmesser für Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden und Intelligenz. Sie geht mit der Fähigkeit einher, neue Lösungen zu finden und fördert die Flexibilität, die zur schöpferischen Anpassung in kritischen Lebenssituationen nötig ist. Die Gestalttherapie arbeitet mit dem Terminus "kreative Anpassung", um die Bedeutung dieser Fertigkeit für die persönliche wie berufliche Entfaltung herauszustreichen.

Das besondere Augenmerk des Buches gilt dem fruchtbaren Wechselspiel zwischen theoretischen Grundlagen und professioneller Praxis, den historischen und philosophischen Grundlagen, den Fallstudien und einigen speziellen Anwendungsbereichen. Ein repräsentativer Querschnitt amerikanischer und europäischer Theoretiker und Theoretikerinnen sucht den Graben zwischen den Kontinenten zu überbrücken und spiegelt so den Diskurs zwischen den Strömungen der Gestalttherapie wider.

This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens.

Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on clinical issues – a situational window, which includes the therapist and avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field. Through clinical case studies and theoretical reflections, the book examines the experience of children, difficult childhood situations (such as separations, abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent social closure), the experience of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of patients, and second, the aesthetic relational knowing, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated.

Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach is essential reading for Gestalt therapists as well as all clinicians with an interest in phenomenological and aesthetic understanding of the complexity of clinical situations.

This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens.

Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on clinical issues – a situational window, which includes the therapist and avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field. Through clinical case studies and theoretical reflections, the book examines the experience of children, difficult childhood situations (such as separations, abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent social closure), the experience of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of patients, and second, the aesthetic relational knowing, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated.

Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach is essential reading for Gestalt therapists as well as all clinicians with an interest in phenomenological and aesthetic understanding of the complexity of clinical situations.

Der gestalttherapeutische Ansatz ist vor allem für seine große Bandbreite an therapeutischen Interventionen bekannt. Kreativität ist ein entscheidender Gradmesser für Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden und Intelligenz. Sie geht mit der Fähigkeit einher, neue Lösungen zu finden und fördert die Flexibilität, die zur schöpferischen Anpassung in kritischen Lebenssituationen nötig ist. Die Gestalttherapie arbeitet mit dem Terminus "kreative Anpassung", um die Bedeutung dieser Fertigkeit für die persönliche wie berufliche Entfaltung herauszustreichen.

Das besondere Augenmerk des Buches gilt dem fruchtbaren Wechselspiel zwischen theoretischen Grundlagen und professioneller Praxis, den historischen und philosophischen Grundlagen, den Fallstudien und einigen speziellen Anwendungsbereichen. Ein repräsentativer Querschnitt amerikanischer und europäischer Theoretiker und Theoretikerinnen sucht den Graben zwischen den Kontinenten zu überbrücken und spiegelt so den Diskurs zwischen den Strömungen der Gestalttherapie wider.