GESTALT REVIEW
VOLUME 24
2020
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Volume 24, Number 1
Articles
Enchantment: The Secret Ally of Psychotherapy
Erving Polster, PhD
Buddhism: Who Needs It?
Peter F. Mullen, EdD
The Gestalt of the “Self” in Gestalt Therapy: A Suggestion for a New Configuration of Theory
Kathleen Höll, MA
Developing Your Personal Style as a Gestalt Therapist
Nancy Amendt-Lyon, Dr. phil.
Tearing Down the Self, or Transforming It? Est as Uncertain Gestalt
Michael C. Fisher, PhD
Reflection
Using Story as Part of a Gestalt Coaching Practice
Donna Lichaw, MFA
Review
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Coaching for Relationships (Philip Brownell)
Reviewed by E. Rachel Hochman, MS, and Ellen Terie, MS
Volume 24, Number 2
Dedicated to the Memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020)
Article
Field Theory in Contemporary Gestalt Therapy, Part 1: Modulating the Therapist’s Presence in Clinical Practice
Gianni Francesetti, MD, and Jan Roubal, MD, PhD
Cluster
An Experiential Exploration. The Fertile Void and Creative Indifference: Selected Proceedings from the European Association of Gestalt Therapy Conference (Budapest, 2019)
Guest Coordinator: Nancy Amendt-Lyon, Dr. phil.
Preamble
Nancy Amendt-Lyon, Dr. phil.
How Can a Void be Fertile? Implications of Friedlander’s Creative Indifference for Gestalt Therapy and Practice
Nancy Amendt-Lyon, Dr. phil.
Engaged Surrender: The Polarity of Dialogue in Gestalt Therapy
Lynne Jacobs, PhD
Polarity-Principle, Creative Indifference, and the Revolution of Egoism: Salomo Friedlaender’s Impact on the Theory of Gestalt Therapy
Kathleen Höll, MA
Gestalt Therapy and Homeorhesis: Evolution—With Movement, Discrimination, and Grace
Robert W. Resnick, PhD
Posters
Zóra Csalagovits, MA
Reviews
Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy: Partners in a Communal Awakening (Erving Polster)
Reviewed by Gary Yontef, PhD
The Art of Living and the Joy of Life Development and Maturity in a Changing World (Hans Peter Dreitzel)
Reviewed by Kathleen Höll
Reflections
Reflections on “Dialogues on Psychotherapy in the Time of Coronavirus”: An International Webinar Hosted by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb and the Istituto Gestalt HCC Italy
Susan L. Fischer, PhD
Who Am I?
Joseph Melnick, PhD
Responses to “Working with the Body in Mind”: Workshop led by Ann Carr and Archie Roberts, Gestalt International Study Center, April 30, 2020
Thoughts in the Time of COVID-19
Robin Leichtman, PhD
In Conversation Around COVID-19
Audra Micallef, MA-DMT, MBA, and Cathy Perić, MA
Associate Editors:
Daniel J. Bloom, JD, LCSW
Liv Estrup, MA
Jon Frew, PhD
Elinor Greenberg, PhD
Susan Roos, PhD
Gary M. Yontef, PhD
Jack Aylward, EdD, US
Peter Cole, LCSW, US
Billy Desmond, MSc, MBA, UK
Sarah Fallon, SRAsT(D), Dip GPTI, UK
Iris Fodor, PhD, US
Gianna Francesetti, MD, Italy
Ruella Frank, PhD, US
Sean Gaffney, PhD, Ireland/Sweden
Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Canada
Gaie Houston, MA, England
Francisco Huneeus, MD, Chile
Lynne Jacobs, PhD, US
Isabelle Le Peuch, PhD, France
Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph, MA, Israel
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, PhD, Italy
Peter Mortola, PhD, US
Violet Oaklander, PhD, US
Eleanor O'Leary, PhD, Ireland
Brian O'Neill, BA, MAPS, Australia
Malcolm Parlett, PhD, England
Erving Polster, PhD, US
Robert Resnick, PhD, US
Jan Roubal, MD, Czech Republic
Frank Rubenfeld, PhD, US
Stuart N. Simon, LICSW, US
Herb Stevenson, MA, USA
Sarah Toman, PhD, US
Daan Van Baalen, MD, Norway
Carmen Vazquez Bandin, PhD, Spain
Gordon Wheeler, PhD, US
Ansel Woldt, EdD, US