Reaching beyond standard textbook logic, this collection explores the impacts of difficult life situations on human development, experience, and functioning, through a phenomenological field-oriented lens.
Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on the circumstances of those whose lives are lived in pain - 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 those who
