On intimate ground: a Gestalt approach to working with couples

by Backman, Stephanie Wheeler, Gordon

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Title Statements

Full title :On intimate ground : a Gestalt approach to working with couples / Gordon Wheeler, Stephanie Backman, editors.

Summary

Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding of all forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine the insights of dynamic psychology with the power and clarity of systems dynamics. In this exciting new volume, Gordon Wheeler and Stephanie Backman, couples therapists with broad training and long years of experience, present dramatic new approaches that at last integrate the dynamic/self-organizational and the systemic/behavioral schools of thought.

Building on the insights of Gestalt psychology and psychotherapy, the authors show us how a truly phenomenological approach, based on the clients' own experience and goals, holds the key to a dramatic increase in therapeutic power and flexibility. The fifteen engaging chapters demonstrate the application of this approach to issues of intimacy, self-construction, power and abuse, "resistance," growth, and shame - and to such diverse and challenging populations as abuse survivors and their partners, remarried couples, gay and lesbian couples, and couples with "personality" or "character" disorders. In the process, the authors offer a fresh perspective that will serve to re-energize the couples therapist's work in this challenging area. On Intimate Ground contributes new insights to many of the most timely and provocative questions in the field today

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1994.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Jossey-Bass
Place of Publication:San Francisco
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1994.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxx, 418 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134897827, 1134897820, 9780203779705, 0203779703, 9781134897896, 1134897898, 9781134897964, 1134897960, 0881632643, 9780881632644, 9781138869554, 1138869554
DOI:10.4324/9780203779705
oclc:ocn625354149
LC Classification:RC488.5
Dewey Decimal:616.89/156

I. Theory. The tasks of intimacy : reflections on a gestalt approach to working with couples / Gordon Wheeler -- Contact and choice : gestalt work with couples / Judith Hemming -- Self-organization and dialogue / Hunter Beaumont -- Processes of experiential organization in couple and family systems / Netta R. Kaplan and Marvin L. Kaplan. II. Applications. Therapy with remarried couples / Patricia Papernow -- Gestalt couples therapy with gay male couples : enlarging the therapeutic ground of awareness / Allan Singer -- Gestalt couples therapy with lesbian couples : applying theory and practice to the lesbian experience / Fraelean Curtis -- Working with the remarried couple system / Isabel Fredericson and Joseph H. Handlon -- The gestalt couples group / Mikael Curman and Barbro Curman -- Trauma survivors and their partners : a gestalt view / Pamela Geib and Stuart Simon.

III. Perspectives. Couples' shame : the unaddressed issue / Robert Lee -- Intimacy and power in long-term relationships : a gestalt therapy-systems perspective / Joseph Melnick and Sonia March Nevis -- The grammar of relationship : gestalt couples therapy / Cynthia Oudejans Harris -- Giving and receiving / Richard …

Subjects

Gestalt Therapy Gestaltthérapie HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases Marital psychotherapy Marital Therapy MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine MEDICAL -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine Thérapie conjugale