Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy

This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens.

Autorentext

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, PsyD, is a Gestalt psychotherapist, director of Istituto di Gestalt Human Communication Center Italy (www.gestaltitaly.com); Scientific Director of International Training Programs in "Gestalt Therapy Psychopathology and Development"; and "Gestalt Therapy Supervisors". Editor of the Journal Gestalt Therapy Journal, and of the Gestalt Therapy Book Series (Routledge). Author of The Now for Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Recounted in Post Modern Society. She has received the Lifelong Achievement Award from AAGT (2018).

Pietro Andrea Cavaleri, PhD, PsyD, is a Gestalt Psychotherapist and Trainer at Istituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy. He has taught at the University of Palermo, at LUMSA University and at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences "Auxilium". He has been psychologist in chief at the Public Health Service and counselor for social policies of Caltanissetta. Author of Living with the Other: Contribution for a Culture of Relationship; The Depth of Surface: Introduction to Gestalt Psychotherapy.

Inhalt

Foreword

Scott D. Churchill

Editors' Introduction

Part 1: Psychopathology of the Situation

1. Psychopathological Situations in a Post-Pandemic World.

Gestalt Therapy in Emergent Clinical Fields

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb and Pietro Andrea Cavaleri

2. Working on the Ground, on Aesthetics, and on the "Dance".

Aesthetic Relational Knowledge and Reciprocity

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb

Beyond Slogans: Connecting Individuals in a Community

A comment by Erving Polster

3. Global Unrest and the Anthropological Perspective of Gestalt Therapy

Pietro Andrea Cavaleri

The World Crisis and Gestalt Therapy: Response to Cavaleri

A comment by Gary Yontef

4. Phenomenology and Gestalt Psychotherapy. New Challenges Under-the-Radar

Pietro Andrea Cavaleri

5. The Gestalt Clinical Data Sheet: a Phenomenological, Aesthetic, and Field Instrument for Gestalt Psychotherapy and Supervision

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Elisabetta Conte, and Maria Mione

Part II: Psychopathological Situations in the Clinical Fields of Human Relations

6. Ring-a-Ring O' Roses, A Pocket Full of Posies. Gestalt Psychotherapy and Childhood Suffering

Silvia Tosi and Elisabetta Conte

7. Children of "Broken" Relationships: Repairing the Ground of the Parental Experience

Paola Canna and Manuela Partinico

8. Gestalt Psychotherapy and Complex Trauma in Preadolescence. How to Support the Integration of the Body, Emotions, and Words.

Rosanna Militello

9. To Be or Not to Be Autistic: From the Camouflage Effect to É*lan Vital*. A Gestalt Perspective

Antonio Narzisi

10. Adolescents in Eclipse. Journey Notes From the Labyrinth of Social Withdrawal

Michele Lipani

11. Addiction as Persistent Trauma of the Ground Experience: Neuroscience and Gestalt Psychotherapy **

Giancarlo Pintus and Maria Luisa Grech

12. Conflict in Couple Relationships as Space for Recognition. An Opportunity that is Still Possible in the Post-Pandemic World

Pietro Andrea Cavaleri

13. Working with the Family in Gestalt Psychotherapy

Giuseppe Sampognaro

14. Gestalt Psychotherapy and Ageing

Alessandra Merizzi

15. Gestalt Psychotherapy in the Relationship with the Chronic Patient: Accepting and Supporting the Experience of Loss Through an Aesthetic Gaze

Alessandra Vela and Donatella Buscemi

16. For Whom the Bells Do Not Toll. The Processing of Bereavement in Our Time

Carmen Vàzquez Bandìn

Afterword

Santo Di Nuovo

Biographical Notes

Appendix