Gestalt essentials: contact, the contact boundary, and awareness

I want to get down more of the nuts and bolts of gestalt theory; I would like this theory to be more widely accessible and understood than it is currently. Gestalt therapy is more than Gestalt Therapy Verbatim and That Gloria Video. In some ways, the Perlsian gestalt of Verbatim is more a branch of [...]

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Four reasons I set man traps for Santa

I have an irrational and visceral dislike for list based blog posts. Every time I see a blog post title that goes “ten reasons why…” or “the seven principles of…” etc, a little piece of me dies and reincarnates as a berserker with a nasty case of blood lust. Gestalt itself seems particularly fond of [...]

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