The Society You Live In Be Yours: How Gestalt Therapy was Developed Between Berlin and New York($20.00Value)

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Gestalt therapy is a peerless therapeutic concept: helping people in psychological distress and supporting them in finding their way back to a zest for life without re-integrating them into the rat race. Combining meaningful, helpful, non-self-destructive rebellion with necessary adaptation that is just barely acceptable for the organism is a challenging task. Biographical, historical, and cultural sources influencing the founding parents of Gestalt therapy are knitted together here and bring the emergence of Gestalt therapy to life: Laura and Fritz Perls from Germany and Paul Goodman in America form a team of strong opposites, united by their progenitor Sigmund Freud and his fallen angel Wilhelm Reich: this book is a tour de force whose author has been working on the theory of Gestalt therapy for half a century.