Bøger af Brian O'Neill

Since the beginning of time people have developed knowledge to make sense of who we are and the world we live in. The ancient forms of psychology (as in the original meaning of the study of the 'psyche' or soul) included the visible and invisible aspects of reality - unlike the current split today between secular and spiritual, between the visible and the invisible which proliferates in Western culture. Most modern psychologies, by attending mainly to the visible world, have focused on that which will fade and die - the visible. The ancient psychologies began in the visible realm and included the invisible beyond external appearance. These approaches are seen by modern psychologists as religions or spiritual practices. Yet ancient psychologies were simply broader and more holistic, discovering the source of the visible world in the invisible world. They discovered the Holy and for many this Holy is God. This is the aim of this book. To tell the story of the loss of the Holy in psychology and regain this experience, as it is happening today. To make whole the visible and invisible realities currently divided. It offers a journey of exploration to discover a golden thread of the wider reality that makes us essentially human. This wider reality helps in understanding and healing the unavoidable sufferings of being human.

Working with couples in psychotherapy using a gestalt approach.

The book presents a wide range of essays across three decades of work and writing as a gestalt therapist. The fields covered vary from current interventions in mental health services; working in couples and family therapy; child inclusive practice; domestic and family violence; substance misuse; working with trauma and war veterans; group work; working in court settings; communities; and management. With this spectrum of topics I stretch gestalt therapy theory and practice to incorporate areas such as spirituality; relativistic quantum physics; creativity; poetry; political science; supervision and ethics and our developmental journey from childhood to adulthood through to old age. This is a rich tapestry of threads interwoven into a multifaceted view of the application of gestalt therapy in the 21st century.

This is a collection of writings by members of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy previously published from 2000 to 2014. Here you will find essays with much in common and with important differences. These papers reflect the authors' relationship to the institute and offer what they believe is representative of their work. This collection exemplifies the institute: our membership, our mission our sense of history-and marks our place in contemporary gestalt therapy.

"Being open to physics and spirituality as aspects of Gestalt therapy is in harmony with the founders of gestalt therapy who embrace a "unitary approach". This book encourages appreciation of each each of these fields in an expansion of how we view ourselves and the potential of the Gestalt Approach."

This book accentuates poetry creativity and the spirituality of the Tao as aspects of the organism/environment field in general and Gestalt therapy in particular. This is in accord with the early founders of gestalt therapy who seek to further the recollection of childhood as "some of the most beautiful powers of adult life that must be recovered: spontaneity, imagination, directness of awareness and manipulation." and embrace a "unitary approach". By being present to the emergent creation of the field with the recovered faculties of children and artists we work and live creatively and authentically in the present moment.

Gestalt therapy, of all the therapies, might be expected to have developed a literature in this area due to its significant focus on organisational management, both through the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC) and the Gestalt International Study Centre (GISC) and the body of literature and training they have developed. The theory and practice of Gestalt OSD (Organisation and Systems Dynamics) or GIO (Gestalt in Organisations) is a field or application of Gestalt therapy which has developed for a range of people around the world.

This book provides an overview of both Swedenborg and Jung through a gestalt lens of their lived experience.

Our experience of beingThis book offers people the experience in awareness with a series of exercises and experiments the author has used in teaching Gestalt therapy. These experiments are for everyone to make use of. Our main sense of identity is found in this state of being awake and aware in which you are reading this book. Let's call this Ordinary Waking Consciousness (OWC). This is a way of being in the world we are very familiar with. There are more states than this one and this book explores them with the reader through these experiments in awareness.

This is not a book geared to one branch of activity - like gestalt group therapy, or organization development, or applications to management. The papers assembled here embrace a whole variety of practice settings and areas of professional endeavour: organisations, training groups, communities, national groupings, life - focus groups, as well as (of course) the special case of two people working together, in the relational fields of group facilitator-participant, or of consultant-consultee, or of teacher-student, all or which are fields within fields.

This book presents an anthology of the history, theory and practice of living in community by gestalt psychotherapists and practitioners around the world.

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