Aggression, Time, and Understanding : Contributions to the Evolution of Gestalt Therapy /: Contributions to the Evolution of Gestalt Therapy. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Frank-M. Staemmler.
• Authors: Staemmler, Frank-M
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; The Author; Section 1 -- Aggression; 1. Ego, Anger, and Attachment -- A Critique of Peris's Aggression Theory and Method; Chapter Reference Points; Part One; 1.1. Frederick S. Perls's Theory of Aggression; 1.2. Problems; Part Two; 2.1. Motivational Systems; 2.2. The Everyday Side Effects of Aggression: Repercussions on the Aggressor; 2.3. Catharsis; 2.4. Inhibition and Control; 2.5. Between Scylla and Charybdis; 2.6. Can Anger and Aggression Ever Be Recommended?; Part Three; 3.1. Appraisal; 3.2. Anger Appraisal 3.3. Case Example 13.4. Importance; 3.5. Needs; 3.6. Responsibility; 3.7. Power; Final Remarks; References; Section 2 -- Time; 2. The Here and Now is not What it Used to Be -- The Tail of the Comet, the Face of Janus, and The Infinity of Possibilities; Misunderstandings; The ""Out of Sight -- Out of Mind"" Misunderstanding; The ""Nothing Exists Apart from the Here and Now"" Misunderstanding; The Hedonistic Misunderstanding; Subjectivity; Continuity; Memory; Process Activation; Kairos; References 3. Towards a Theory of Regressive Processes in Gestalt Therapy -- On Time Perspective, Developmental Model and the Wish to Be UnderstoodThe Psychoanalytic Term of""Regression"" -- A Brief Explanation and Some Critical Comments; Approaching a Gestalt Therapy View of ""Regression""; Proposal for a Gestalt Understanding of Regressive Processes; Balint's Theory of Regression and Its Yield for a Gestalt Understanding of Regressive Processes; Final Considerations; References; Section 3 -- Understanding; 4 Dialogue and Interpretation in Gestalt Therapy -- Making Sense Together; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 Part 4Part 5; Part 6; References; 5 Cultivated Uncertainty -- An Attitude of Gestalt Therapists; Introduction; "I Only Came to Use the Phone"; The Need for Certainty; Diagnoses and Certainty; The Significance of Meanings; The Power of Interpretation and Its Distribution; Pseudo-certainty; Rosenhan's Research; Context and Meaning; One-Sided Power of Interpretation and Necessary Uncertainty; Cultivated Uncertainty; I-Thou-Relationship; Phenomenology; Constructivism; Field Theory; Process; References; Selected Titles from GestaltPress
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Gestalt Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (372 pages), (14 illustrations)
• Subjects: 302.54; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; Gestalt therapy; Gestalt therapy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317761235; 1317761235
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