Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy

Enchantment and Gestalt Therapy is a personal exploration of Erving Polster's remarkable career, the value of the Gestalt approach, and the power of enchantment in psychotherapy.

Erving Polster is a veteran teacher of Gestalt therapy and the author of several books. His major interests have long been the transformation of psychotherapy as a curative process into psychotherapy as a communal source of orientation and guidance.

Foreword by Scott Churchill. 1. My Beginnings: Stolen by Gypsies 2. Concentration: Fundamentals 3. Concentration: Enchantment 4. Figure/Ground: Basic Process 5. Figure/Ground: Here and Now/There and Then 6. Figure/Ground: Life Focus Groups 7. Figure/Ground: Belonging 8. Awareness: Fundamentals 9. Contact Boundary: Fundamentals 10. Contact Boundary: Morality 11. Polarities: Self-Formation 12. Resistance 13. Public Trust. Afterword by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb.