Field Theory in Contemporary Gestalt Therapy, Part 1 : Modulating the Therapist's Presence in Clinical Practice

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/gestaltreview.24.2.0113" target="_blank" >https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/gestaltreview.24.2.0113</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.24.2.0113" target="_blank" >10.5325/gestaltreview.24.2.0113</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Field Theory in Contemporary Gestalt Therapy, Part 1 : Modulating the Therapist's Presence in Clinical Practice

Original language description

This article is the first of two aimed at exploring the implications of field theory in contemporary Gestalt therapy. We present here the definition of field theory that we rely upon; in particular, we define the phenomenal field, the phenomenological field, and the psychopathological field. Then we explore the implications of these distinctions in psychopathology and clinical practice. We describe the guidelines to apply field theory in practice for therapists to modulate the way they are present in the session in order to support the process of change. We conclude with an illustrative clinical example. The theory that we present in this article is a way to address, from a Gestalt therapy perspective, the relational phenomena that psychoanalysis has called “transference and countertransference.” Our understanding, however, builds on a different epistemology, one that is radically relational and based on field theory, which considers the self and the other as incessant and unending emerging processes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50102 - Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other physical and mental disabilities);

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Gestalt Review

ISSN

1084-8657

e-ISSN

1945-4023

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

113-136

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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