Biographical Notes

Nancy Amendt-Lyon, Dr. phil., M.A., born in New York, studied psychologyin New York , Geneva , and Graz. In private practice in Vienna as a psycho­therapist and supervisor, senior teaching faculty of the Depts. of Int. GestaltTh erapy, Group Analysis, and Supervision (OAGG) . Publications on Gestalttherapy (creativity, supervision , diagnosis, psychotherapeutic efficacy). Chairof the Extended Board of th e EAGT, on the board of Gestalt Review, and as­sociate of the board of Gestalttherapie. Channels her creative ene rgy intowriting and performing cabar et s on Gestalt th erapy.

Daniel J. Bloom is a psychotherapist in pri vate practice as well as a supervi­sor and teacher of Gestalt th e rapy in New York City. He received a master'sin social work and a juris doctor from New York University. He includesLaura Perls, Isadore From, Richard Kitzler, and Patrick Kelley as his teach­ers. He is a full member of th e New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy and isits current president.

Todd Burley, Ph.D. , ABPP, is currently professor of psychology at LornaLinda University, where he teaches courses in Gestalt therapy, cortical func­tions, neuropsychological as sessment, and res earch and treatment of schizo­phrenia. He is a member of th e Core Faculty at GATLA, a Post-Graduate In­stitute in Los Angeles that ha s trained Gestalt therapists internationally for32 years. In addition to maintaining a private practice , he is an Action Editorfor Gestalt Review. He is perhaps the only psychologist today combining ateaching career in Gestalt th erapy and cognitive neuroscience.

Sandra Cardoso-Zinker, M.S., Lie.Psych., lived in Brazil. where she taughtGestalt therapy in work with children and the arts for 15 years. She has writ­ten articles about Gestalt th erapy in relation to human development and at­tachment theory. At pr esent, sh e lives in Massachusetts and teaches GestaltCouples and Child Therapy in the USA as well as in Europe and SouthAmerica. Sh e recently publish ed an article on couples therapy and The Storyof Daniel: Gestalt Therapy Principles and Value. She is affil iated with TheGestalt International Study Center and is a faculty member of The GestaltInstitute of Sao Paulo.

Ludwig Frambach, Th . D., born 1954, Lutheran pastor and psychotherapist,director of The Spirituality Proj ect in Nuremberg, Germany, Gestalt training

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Symbolon Institute, and Fritz Perls Institute, Germany. He has many years ofpractice in Zen and Christian contemplation, and several publications in thefield of psychotherapy, spirituality, and ecology.

Ruella Frank has a master's degree in movement education and a doctorate insomatic psychology. She practices psychotherapy in New York City, whereshe is the director of the Center for Somatic Studies, member of training fac­ulty at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, and full member of the NewYork Institute for Gestalt Therapy. She also teaches at institutes and universi­ties throughout the United States and Europe. Ruella authored the book Bodyof Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy(Gestalt Press, 2001) .

Carl Hodges has an abiding interest in Gestalt psychology and Gestalt fieldtheory, and in the application of Gestalt field theory concepts to the varietiesof social organization - self, groups, associations, community. He has taughtat Hunter College in New York and is a trainer at the New York Institute forGestalt Therapy, and a visiting trainer at the Gestalt Centre London and theIstituto di Gestalt - H .C.C., Italy. He was the second president of the NewYork Institute for Gestalt Therapy, and the third president of the Associationfor the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy.

Richard Kitzler has been a member of the New York Institute for Gestalttherapy since 1952 and is a fellow of the Institute. He is the author of innu­merable articles , papers, and conference programs. He teaches, supervises,and maintains a private practice of psychotherapy in New York City. His in­terest has been a restatement of current Gestalt therapy theory and is work­ing on a reconstruction of Gestalt Therapy theory. He is also interested inlarge group process and its effect on the polis.

Edward J. Lynch is an associate professor in the Department of Marriage &Family Therapy at Southern Connecticut State University, specia lizing inGestalt therapy training. His background includes training and supervisionwith Isadore From, Erv and Miriam Polster, Joseph Zinker, and Michael Vin­cent Miller. He is a member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapyand workshop leader throughout Europe and the USA. He also studied fam­ily therapy with Salvador Minuchin at the Philadelphia Child GuidanceClinic.

Barbara Lynch is a professor in the Department of Marriage & Family Ther­apy at Southern Connecticut State University. Her training with Jay Haleyand Salvador Minuchin forms the background for her specialization in sys­temic couple and family therapy. She is an AAMFT clinical member and ap­proved supervisor and a frequent presenter at national conferences on is­sues relating to couples, youth, and families .

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Joseph Melnick, Ph .D., is a clinical and organizational psychologist. He is amember of the professional staff of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and theGestalt International Study Center, where he teaches in the Center for Inti­mate Systems. He is the editor-in-chief of Gestalt Review, an internationaljournal devoted to contemporary Gestalt therapy. The author of numerousarticles on Gestalt therapy, he teaches and trains internationally.

Michael Vincent Miller, Ph .D., clinical psychologist, practices Gestalt ther­apy in New York City and Cambridge , Mass. He taught at Stanford Univer­sity and MIT, and directed the Boston Gestalt Institute from 1972 until re­cently. Consulting editor of the International Gestalt Journal, he has been afrequent reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. His book IntimateTerrorism: The Crisis of Love in an Age of Disillusion has been translatedinto seven languages, and a collection of his writings, La Poetique de la Ge­stalt-therapie, was published in France (2002).

Bertram Miiller, Dipl.-Psych., clinical Gestalt therapist, trainer, supervisor,president of the German Otto-Rank-Association (DORG), founding directorof the international cultural center Tanzhaus nrw/Diisseldorf, executive di­rector of World Dance Alliance Europe, cultural expert at the EuropeanCommission (94/95) . Award: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry forCulture, France. Publications on Otto Rank, diagnostic in Gestalt therapy,dance art and cultural management.

Sonia March Nevis, Ph.D. , is director of the Center for the Study of IntimateSystems at the Gestalt International Study Center on Cape Cod, Massachu­setts in the United States. She has a private practice working with individu­als , couples, and families. She also does supervision.

Edwin C. Nevis has been a pioneer in applying the Gestalt therapy model toconsultation with organizations. He is currently president of Gestalt Interna­tional Study Center, which he started together with Sonia M. Nevis in 1979.He was a founder of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and also developedthe Gestalt Press. In addition, he spent 17 years as an adjunct professor, re­searcher, and administrator at the MIT Slogan School of Management. Au­thor of several books and numerous articles, he currently sees his mission ascreating a worldwide learning community of Gestalt practitioners.

Malcolm Parlett, Ph.D., has a background in academic psychology and re­search in education. A chartered psychologist and a Gestalt psychotherapistregistered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy, he is visiting professor ofGestalt Psychotherapy at the Univ. of Derby, and has his own organisationconsulting company. He studied at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Ohioin the late 1970s, subsequently co-founding the Gestalt Psychotherapy andTraining Institute in the United Kingdom. He is editor of the British GestaltJournal, a member of the Human Strengths Research Group, and has writtenextensively on Gestalt themes.

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Antonio Sichera was born in Modica, Sicily. He has a doctorate in lexicogra­phy and semantics, and is a professor of modern and contemporary Italianliterature at Catania University. His research on hermeneutics from a literaryand philosophical point of view resulted in books on U. Foscolo, L. Piran­delle, C. Pavese, P. Pasolini, and E. Montale. After training in Gestalt ther­apy with Spagnuolo Lobb and Salonia at the Istituto di Gestalt, where henow teaches epistemology of Gestalt therapy, he wrote essays on the rela­tionship between hermeneutics and Gestalt therapy.

Giuseppe Sampognaro, Psych. Dr., was born in Catania, Sicily. He trained inGestalt therapy with Salonia and Spagnuolo Lobb. As a psychotherapist in aState Mental Health Service in Siracusa, he promotes art therapy with psy­chiatric patients. As a journalist, he writes on psychological issues for vari­ous magazines and edits a specialized teletext page for the R.AJ. (RadioTelevisione Italiana). After publishing the novel Mille mondi. Un romanzoterapeutico (2000), he focused on the application of creative techniques topsychotherapy, above all the use of images and writing.

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Psych . Dr., Director of the Istituto di Gestalt(Venice, Rome, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa). international trainer and visitingprofessor at various universities in Italy and abroad. Full member of theNYIGT. President of Ital. Federation of Assoc. of Psychotherapy, past presi­dent of European Assoc. for Gestalt Therapy (1996-2002) . Editor of the jour­nals Quaderni di Gestalt and Studies in Gestalt Therapy. She authored manyarticles, chapters, and books, some of which have been translated into otherlanguages. She has organized a few important conferences of Gestalt ther­apy.

Daniel N. Stern, M .D., Prof. Hon. Paculte de Psychologie, Unlversite deGeneva. Adj . Prof. in the Dept. of Psychiatry, Cornell Univ. Med. School,New York; Lect. at Columbia Univ. Center for Psychoanal., Hon. Doct. atCopenhagen Univ, and the Univ. of Mons Hinault, Belgium. For more thanthirty years, he has worked at the interface between developmental psychol­ogy and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He authored several hundred arti­cles, chapters, and six books, most of which have been translated into morethan ten languages. The most recent is titled: The Present Moment in Psy­chotherapy and Everyday Life.

Gordon Wheeler, Ph.D., teaches Gestalt therapy in training programsaround the world. Trained in clinical and developmental psychology, he au­thored a number of books and articles on: self theory, relationship and inti­macy, child therapy, developmental and gender issues, and working withshame. He focuses on using the Gestalt therapy model to develop an inter­subjective approach to psychoth. and relationship . A senior faculty memberof the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, he is editor and co-director of GestaltPress . He and his wife have 8 children, and divide their time between Cam­bridge, Massachusetts and Big Sur, California.

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Joseph C. Zinker, Ph.D., co-founder of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland,trained with F. Perls in the 60s, and has been influential in the developmentof the Gestalt therapy approach for over three decades. Author of numerousarticles and books (the most recent is Sketches: An Anthology of Essays, Artand Poetry, 2001), he served on the editorial board of several journals (Voices,The Gestalt Journal, Gestalt Review and The Journal of Couples Therapy).Affiliated with the Gestalt Int. Study Center, he is a faculty member of theCenter for the Study of Intimate Systems and of many Gestalt Institutesaround the world.

Subject Index

Abilitie s 51-58,60-62Accommodate 241Adj ective 94Aesthetic 154 , 155, 160, 161Aesthetic crit erion 71-75Aesthetic qualities 63, 65, 66, 68, 72 , 76Aesthetic sense 102Aesthetic values 72, 76Affirmation 132Anxiety 155-157,160,161,262, 263,265 ,

272-274Art th erapy 283-285Assessment 243 , 245Assimilation 201-205Autonomous crit erion 253A~areness 58, 133, 293 , 294 , 297, 300

Balanced-in-tone 187Blocks 291 , 293 , 295 , 296, 299-301Boundary 244 ,246Bra in ste m 79Bridging 241

Care giving pres ence 185, 186, 188Child 201-209Choreography 142, 149 , 150Co-a djustment 232Co-created task 186Co-creating 95Co-creation 37,38,40,44 ,45,48, 103Collage 286Commitment 154-161Communicating 55, 60Conflict 107, 109Conflue nt 240Cons cious- exp ression 133- perception 133Co ns cious ne ss 22 , 30 , 3 1Co nsciousnes s/self-consciou sn ess 132,

133 , 136

Contact 23, 26, 27, 35 , 249, 253, 254, 256Con ta ct boundary 37, 42-44, 48, 64-66, 75Con tact/c ontacting 63- 69, 72-76Con tact-withdr awal- compete nce 282- cycl e 286, 287Context 254-258Contextlcontextualize 141, 143 , 147, 148 ,

150Cou nte r-culture 107Counter-w ill 131, 136, 137Cr eative act 281,282Crea tive adjustment 38 ,46,51 ,53,61,62,

64-67 ,74-76,181-183,185,187-191 ,194 ,195, 200,280

Creative personality 130, 136, 138Crea tive urge 130, 137Cre a tive will 130 , 131Cre a tivity- definition 292Culture 142, 145 , 148, 149, 151Cycle of experience 164, 165

Dance 39-42, 47, 273Decision-making 83Deliberateness of contact 38 , 45Denial 132, 135Depression 155, 157 , 160, 161Destabilization 234 , 235Development 52,53,57,58,61,62,81Dialogue 201,205,209,210Differentiation 118, 122, 124-126Diffusion 123, 124Disappointment 228 ,231,235-237Discernment 61Discipline 155, 156, 158-160,228,234Dream 96 , 102, 103, 105,218-221Dysfunction 239, 241

Education 52- 54Embodyin g 54 , 58 , 59, 62

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Emergent property 27Emotional responsiveness 83Enactment 239, 243, 244, 246Energy 141, 143, 144, 150Enmeshed 244Evocative 205,208,210Evolution 163, 261, 262, 265 , 269 ,

271Experiential code 268Experiential field 164,167,175,176Experiment 5,9,20,105,141,145,147,

148,163,169-173,213,239,243,246,247

Experimental attitude 228 , 232-235Experimental zone 168Experimenting 54,60-62Expert 86- system 85

Failure/fear of failure 294 , 295Fantasy 205-208Fertile void 113, 123, 124Field 53-55,61,79,84,85,87,88,251,253,

273-276- phenomenon 79, 87- statement 252Figure/ground 249-254Fixation 123-125Flexible 246Forces and constraints 250 , 253Form 153 , 156, 157, 159, 161Frontal lobes 80, 85

Genius 85Gestalt- destruction 249, 250, 255- diagnosis 68- field theory 249, 250- formation 249,250,255- group 251,255,256- psychology 10, 13, 20, 63 , 69-71,

107- theory 7, 8, 12, 13Gestalt cycle 163, 165Gestures 141, 142, 148-150Graphic-iconic language 283Ground 122, 126- of acquired contacts 263- of security 264,266,267,270Growth 201, 202Guilt 134- feelings 134, 135Guilty consciousness 134, 135

Healing spontaneity 132Heightening intensity 244Here and now 28, 29Hermeneutic code 37Hierarchy 245High-in-tone/high tone 187, 193 , 195Human strength 53,62Humor 145,146,217,228,236,237

Ideals 131, 134Illusion 283Implicit knowledge 21-23,30-33Improvisation 21,23,26,32, 146, 148, 149Improvisational 37-39,44,48Indifference 113, 114, 116, 118-122, 124-

126Influence 294, 298, 299Insight 7-9, 12-14 , 18, 212, 222Instincts 130 , 132Integration 124Intention 23-25Intentionality 212 ,262Interaction/interactional 142, 143, 147Interrelating 54-57,62Intersubjective/-ity 23-26,30-35,37,38,

44, 45 , 164, 174, 175Intimate relationships 227-230, 237Intrapsychic contact 280, 286Intrinsic 69 ,71 ,72,75,76IQ 85I-Thou 283

Joining 241

Kairos 40, 43, 45Kinds of contact 281

Language 96,97,99Lie 264Life context 7,8, 14, 15, 17Limbic system 80Living theater 105Love 143, 144, 154-156, 158, 160Low-in-tone/low ton e 187, 198

Management 297,301Meaning 7,8, 11-16Memory 81-83, 86Metaphors 147Middle mode 123 , 124, 126

Subject Index 311

Mind 23,25,29,34Mise en abime 96Moment of meeting 27, 28Movement 102, 104, 106, 110Moving-along 26,27Multi-contextual/multi-contextuality 147,

150Mutual/mutually/mutuality 228, 230-232Mystic 121

Narrate 99National Socialism 218 ,219Naught 118, 119, 121, 122Nervous system 23Neurons 24Neuroscience/cognitive ne uroscience 79 ,

87Normality 38 , 39Normalization 261Noun 93Novelty 86 ,201,203,205,209,232-236Now moment 23, 27

Obstacles (see "blocks") 293,294Open space 28Opposite 115-118, 120, 121, 124, 125Order 294,301- excessive need for 296Organization learning 292Organizational innovation 291, 293 ,

295Orienting capacity 188, 190, 199Original/originality 109Overcertainty 294,298,300,301

Paradigm 291 ,292Phenomenological-relational 262 , 264Physical process 59Play 5,11 ,17,18,168-172,176, 202-204 ,

206-209,294-296,300Poetry 97-99, 101 , 102Poiesis 93,97,98Polar/polarity 114-118, 120, 122-126,

130Politics/political 103-106, 110Portrayal 98Pragmatism 71Praqnanz 292 , 293Presence/present 202-206, 210Process 141-143, 146, 150Process and events 250 , 254, 255Process-oriented diagnosis 8, 16

Productive thinking 7,8, 12Proprioception 182, 187 , 194, 198Proprioceptive awareness 182, 190, 191,

194 , 199Provocative 208Psychiatric institutions 262, 266, 267Psychology of colors 288Psychoportrait 279, 285Psychotherapeutic change 37

Red scare 106Reframe 243, 244Relational 141 ,142,149,150,201-203Relational field 181, 185, 195,211. 220-

222Relational risk 37-41, 43-48Relationship 93-95Resistance 241,242Resource 294 , 297, 301Responding 54 ,55,62Responsibility 218, 220Risk 5,8,15-19,211. 212, 214, 221-223Risk/risk-taking 291,294Rumination 284

Self 64-66,76, 181. 182, 189, 191, 197Self-awareness 85, 86Se lf-organizin g 54 , 55Self-recognizing 54,57,58,62Self-willed ego 131, 132Sensory 6, 10, 13-15- memories 10Sensory lobes 79Seriously disturbed patient 282Shame 173,175-177Social sharing of emotions 284Solution 240Space between 168, 176Specific support 270Spontaneity 38, 39, 42, 44, 45, 48State of the nervous system 187-189Staying with 153-155Story 204, 205Strategic/strategy 298 , 299Structural map 245Style 5-8,10,11 ,16,17,19,221Subgrouping 254-257Subjectivity 153, 157, 159Suicide 214-216Support 54,55,167,172-177,202,203,

205 ,206,209,210,212,220,223Supporting surface 186, 191, 194Surprise 16, 18

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Team effort 87Theory-practice connection 6,7, 18,211,

212 ,221. 223Therapeutic community 285Therapeutic environment 268 , 271Therapeutic relationship 5, 6,8, 15,211 ,

213 ,216,222Time 37-42,45,46, 154, 155, 157Time and space 271 , 273, 274Timeless 154Training 52 , 54, 56, 58Transitional object 280Transitional zone 168, 176, 177Transparent relationship 264Trauma 170,175

Unique/uniqueness 5,8,10,11,16,17,19,202-205,211 ,221

Vacuum 123, 124Validate 203, 205, 206Values 132-135Voicing 254Volition 131, 135, 136

Whol e and parts 250 , 252-254Will 131. 132, 134- therapy 132, 133Work 254Working memory 85

Yearning 141-143, 150

Zone of creativity 168, 170, 174,175

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