Situation, Field Perspective and Formation of Forms in Gestalt Therapy Social Change Begins with Two

How Situations Create Self  1. The Self of the Situation  2. Self, Artist of Contact  3. A Therapy of Forms of Experience  4. Contact, at the Source of Experience  5. Does the Now Have a Future?  6. A Background to “The Field”  7. Towards a Clinical Approach of the Situation  How Situations Create Pathology  8. Gestalt Therapy “AND” Psychopathology: Nine Proposals for Approaching This “AND”  9. Shame  10. Shame in Supervision  11. On the Good Use of Incoherence  How Situations Create Forms  12. Gestalt Therapy as Aesthetics  13. Therapy of Forms and Forms of Therapy  14. “Structions”  15. The Language of Experience  16. Ex-Pression In-Sists, Im-Pression Ex-Ists: A Topic of Experience  17. Psychotherapy as a Situation and Contacting as Its Aesthetic Focus  How Situations Create Encounters  18. Self-Reference, Self-Disclosure, Self-Implication of the Gestalt Therapist  19. Social Change Begins with Two  20. Some Social Implications of Gestalt Therapy  21. What I Believe … and What I Believe I Believe  22. Intimacy, Encounter, Tenderness …

Biography

Jean-Marie Robine, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist since 1967 and gestalt therapist since 1976. After more than 15 years as a psychologist, then director, in a public health service for children, adolescents and their families, he created in 1980 the Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie (IFGT), the first Gestalt-therapy institute created in France which, to date, has trained hundreds or maybe thousands of gestalt therapists not only in France but also in Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, USA and Latin America. He is a Fellow Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. He is the author and editor of nine books on gestalt therapy and lives in the countryside, near Bordeaux, France.

"Jean-Marie Robine has for many years been the most important creative voice in Gestalt therapy. His writings and teaching have carried Gestalt therapy forward beyond its origins into the contemporary world. Robine is an innovator in the best sense: He has preserved the history of the discipline even as he has expanded it into new territory. This collection of his writings is indispensable reading for anyone interested not only in Gestalt therapy but also in the evolution since Freud of psychological theory and the practice of psychotherapy."

Michael Vincent Miller, PhD, former president of the New York Institute of Gestalt Therapy and author of Intimate Terrorism

"In this fine second edition, Robine gifts us with another series of published and unpublished essays faithfully illuminating the rich roots of Gestalt therapy, while making cutting-edge contributions to the field. He brings together many threads, including phenomenology, psychopathology, aesthetics, gestalt psychology, making such complex concepts vital and comprehensible. Psychotherapists interested in the relational dimensions of practice, the essential proposition of his theses, will profit from this series of teachings from a master theorist and clinician."

Ruella Frank, PhD, Founder and Director of Center for Somatic Studies. Author of The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy (Routledge)

"This is a revised and expanded edition of an already indispensable classic. Situation, field perspective and formation of forms in gestalt therapy represents Jean-Marie Robine’s current contribution to the field. His essays build from gestalt therapy’s central theory/practice and expands its horizon to reflect the insights he gained from decades of experience in clinical practice, teaching, and scholarship. This is a must-read book for seasoned practitioners and trainees of every modality who want to deepen their knowledge of gestalt therapy."

Dan Bloom, New York City-based psychotherapist. He trains and supervises psychotherapists worldwide, and is current president and a fellow of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy

"This book brings together a wealth of key writings by Jean-Marie Robine, undeniably one of the most pre-eminent voices in Gestalt therapy, who has contributed enormously to its development. With erudition and poetry, the author moves fluidly through philosophy and aesthetics to offer us an avant-garde theory with the field perspective as its cross-cutting axis. This must-read book builds a solid foundation for all of us committed to addressing Gestalt therapy from this revolutionary perspective, embracing subjectivity as a relational phenomenon that emerges from the field as forms."

Mônica Botelho Alvim, PhD, former Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"Reminiscent of Laura Perls, Robine‘s approach to Gestalt therapy is philosophical and aesthetic, and his new publication is indeed 'true to form'. In his eloquent and deeply inspiring manner, Robine tempts readers to expand their horizons, explore unfamiliar places, and allow fresh impressions to linger. Whether revisiting familiar concepts or casting light on novel ones, Robine‘s focus on language is an invitation to rethink our convictions, deconstruct our conceptualizations, concentrate on contacting the Other, and embrace the situation we experience."

Nancy Amendt-Lyon, Austrian Association for Gestalt Therapy and NYIGT