Psychopathology of awareness

by Frederick Salomon Perls

Genres: Psychology

200 pages, Unknown Binding

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.

Reviews

[Nan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is a book full of confusing ideas, without landing any of them. The comments are the most or less salvageable, and that, only some, because while some made an effort even epistemologically to develop their argument, others could not even fill a decent page. I am left with a human and flawed image of the genius that Perls was.