Gestalt is

by Frederick Salomon Perls

If you see the events in your life clearly, then your living goes well, without confusion and unnecessary misery. Sometimes life is difficult and painful, and sometimes life is joyful and full. With awareness you can minimize the pain and maximize the joys and satisfactions. This volume includes writings about Gestalt therapy by Frederick Perls, John Enright, Wilson Van Dusen, Stella Resnick, Stephen Tobin, Paul Goodman, Barry Stevens, Cooper Clements, John O. Stevens, Marc Joslyn, and Robert Hall.

Genres: Psychology

Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1975

About the author

Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Perls coined the term 'Gestalt therapy' to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the 1940s and 1950s. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in 1964, and he lived there until 1969. His approach to psychotherapy is related to, but not identical to, Gestalt psychology, and it is different from Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy.

The core of the Gestalt Therapy process is enhanced awareness of sensation, perception, bodily feelings, emotion, and behavior, in the present moment. Relationship is emphasized, along with contact between the self, its environment, and the other.