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THE NOW RED BOOK OF GESTALT, by Gaie Houston.
This is an extensively revised edition of Gaie Houston's simply written and often humorous original book on Gestalt Therapy. It contains, among much else, new sections on brief psychotherapy and on Gestalt Infant Observation, as well as accounts of many experiments and areas of study for people with an interest in self-development rather than clinical applications.

This book has sold many thousands of copies over the years, and is the recommended handbook on counselling and group-work courses, in pysychotherapy and management training, for tutorial sessions in schools and colleges, and for all those interested in this flexible and commonsensical aid to what Fritz Perls called awareness, excitement and growth in the human personality.

The book is 100 pages long, and offers stacks of experiments carefully explained.

CONTENTS

  • INTRODUCTION ...There is only you to discover, and you are a friend. Someone typed this sentence for me, and it came out "and you are a fiend".........
  • GESTALT DE-MYSTIFIED. We did that.
  • AWARENESS AND CONTACT BOUNDARIES .....How we let contact develop is complex. It is possible to regulate it by all manner Of diversions like fidgets or thoughts, to deny it.., to stare away when intimacy seems imminent or possible......
  • RESPONSE-ABILITY .The Cycle of Awareness and lots of experiments.
  • THE GREAT MUDDLE OVER WHO IS WHO. Projection, retroflection and all the other ections it's polite to speak about.
  • PERCEPT LANGUAGE AND DIALOGUE. Some weird but illuminating versions of English.
  • DREAMS. A popular first experiment is A Conversation With Your Dreams. It often results in your remembering them more.
  • POLARITIES - THE SPACE-TIME PUZZLE. And the empty-chair dialogue explained.
  • GESTALTING THE SYSTEM. Looking at how any system influences the people who make it.
  • POWER AND CONTROL. Competition and co-operation, authority, influence and all that crucial stuff that exists as well as love and intimacy.
  • GESTALT BABY OBSERVATION. A Gestalt system for learning from babies and their environment.
  • GESTALT BRIEF THERAPY. The world asks for brief therapy, so here is a way to do it effectively. Look under Workshops, too.

The book is available from booksellers or direct from Gaie Houston. You can write to her at 8 Rochester Terrace, London NW1 9JN, UK, enclosing a cheque or money order for £7.99 per copy. From mainland Europe it costs £8.50, and from further off, £9.50, always with sterling cheques drawn on a British bank, or sterling money orders, please. It is available in Italian from edizioni di red/ studio redazionale, Via Volta 43, 22100 Como Italy.

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