A Field-Centred Approach to Gestalt Therapy - Agency and Response-ability in a Changing World

In Gestalt therapy, sociological, political, and economic research is often neglected or ignored. Drawing on analyses about current societal conditions, this book considers that there is no such thing as a -postmodern- therapy and offers a new approach to Gestalt therapy.

Gestalt therapy is still currently based on the Cartesian worldview, even if relational approaches are in search for an -in-between-. The author-s approach of Gestalt therapy is based on an idea by the founders: -Contact is the first reality- - so the field coemerges and coexists with individuals- perceptions providing specific conditions, demands, limitations and opportunities. An individual-s field is not an afterthought established by the perspective of the first-person-singular (i.e. individuals) but a -conditio sine qua non-. Gutjahr reflects on both theoretical and practical aspects of the field-s many processes of resonance. Putting the field consistently at the centre of his approach, the author descr