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1 online resource (398 pages) |
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Front Cover; A Well-Lived Life; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword by Deborah Ullman; Introduction by Judith and George Brown; Author's Preface; Prologue; Part One: An Approach to Human Change; Essay I: ""The Unity of Theory and Method in Gestalt Therapy""; An Overview of Gestalt Therapy; The Human Organism; The biological field; Theory of the organism; Contact; Whole-making; Goal-seeking behavior; The Methods of Gestalt Therapy; The therapeutic relationship; The experiment; Awareness work; Strategic: Experience Cycle vs. self-function analysis of contact |
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Tactical: Phenomenology of therapist & clientAmplification, exaggeration, and refraction; Therapeutic role-playing; Homework; Working with cognition; The wider field: couples, families, groups, education, organizations; Conclusion; Essay II: ""Processes of Contact -- A Dynamic Model of the Self""; Introduction; Self-functions; Interested excitement function; Decision-making function; Choosing function; Whole-making or synthesizing function; Habit-formation function; Contact-and-withdrawal function; The six-function model as a diagnostic tool |
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Essay III: ""Functional and Dysfunctional Processes of Contact""Introduction; A case example -- Adam and Martha; Introjection; Projection; Confluence; Transference; Retroflection; Egotism; Proflection; Deflection; Conclusions about contact distortions; The broader perspective: the double focus of the Gestalt therapy process; Part Two: The Philosophical Ground; Essay IV: ""Opposing Paradigms [Aristotelian vs Platonic] in Gestalt Therapy and Psychoanalysis.""; Introduction; Contrasting visions of what is real; Aristotle's analytical tools for understanding wholeness and processes of change |
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Three Platonic philosophical problemsThe mind-body problem; The problem of knowing the unique individual; Knowing and acting; Conclusion; Essay V: ""Foundations of the Concept of the Self''; Introduction; Psyche, soul, and self; The self as the ""system of contacts in a difficult field"" and as""the agent of growth.""; Agency, continuity through time, organic wholeness, affectivity, and ""I""; Agency; Temporal Continuity or Identity Through Change; Self-Coherence; Self-Affectivity; ""I"" -- Foundation of Its Meaning; The need for a theory of human development |
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Essay VI: ""All There Is, Is Now -- A Gestalt Theory of Human NatureIntroduction; How are processes of contact possible?; Field theory; Fractals and holograms; The pervasiveness of process; Personal self-knowledge; Knowledge of the individuals and the therapeutic task; Part Three: Human Maturity and Fulfillment; Essay VII: ""A Well-Lived Life -- A Gestalt Perspective""; Introduction; Personal life; Of butterllies and paradoxes; Growing through paradoxes; What is psychological health?; The nature of authenticity; The individual as clear figure; The fulfilled self -- maturing the foundations |
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Essay VIII: ""Meetings of Persons -- Reflections on Authentic Relationships"" |
| Summary |
Sylvia Crocker's A Well-Lived Life is a work of a daring and creative thinker, offering a bold reconceptualization of Gestalt therapy that extends all the way from its philosophical foundation to the nuances of its clinical application. In prose that is clear as a bell, Crocker fully exposes the depth and power of Gestalt therapy's field theoretical model, deftly moving from individual to larger systems work and back again, and capturing the full range of human psychological phenomena as she goes. From the acquisition and maintenance of simple behavioral habits, to the const |
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Print version record |
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Gestalt therapy.
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Gestalt Therapy
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- General.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Success.
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Gestalt therapy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135061531 |
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113506153X |
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