Preface - Joseph Zinker
I. There and Then
1. Apperceptive Mass: My Grounding
2. Searching for Clarity
II. On Being a Therapists
3. The Therapist As Artist
4. Presence as Evocative Power in Therapy
5. Notes to a Student
6. Synthetic Thinking
7. Phenomenology of the Here and Now
8. On Grandparently Love
9. Polemics, Systems and the Nature of Interventions
III. On Being a Client
10. Excerpts from Rosa Lee
11. Entitlement: A Meditation for the Psychotherapy Client
12. In Search of a Therapeutic Eclecticism (with Irving Bailin)
IV. In Dialogue
13. Discussions with the Masters (with Robert Harman)
14. Interview with Joseph C. Zinker
15. Lies in Intimate Systems (with Sonia Nevis)
16. Why Children? (with Sonia Nevis and Edwin Nevis)
17. Marriage: The Impossible Relationship (with Sonia Nevis)
Biography
Joseph C. Zinker, Ph.D., is a founding fellow of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, where he served as chair of the postgraduate training faculty. He teaches the Gestalt model of couple and family therapy in workshops and training programs throughout the world. A previous book, Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy (1976) remains a classic work in the field.
"This is a rich and generous book, humane without being maudlin, instructive without being dull, clear without oversimplification. Zinker's discussion of the theory and practice of working with couples and families is itself an embodiment of good form. Both neophyte and seasoned professional will enlarge their appreciation of the beautiful drama of working with couples and families as a consequence of reading it."
- Ira S. Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Walden University
"I've never heard a Gestalt therapist so clearly articulate aesthetic principles, while at the same time embedding these principles in concrete examples and practical suggestions. In Search of Good Form is extremely practical for practicing therapists, while also being philosophically interesting and original."
- Ilene Serlin, Ph.D., Saybrook Institute Graduate School and Research Center
"In this age of 'managed' care, when therapy is being thought of more as a business than a profession, Zinker brings a fresh artistics perspective to couple and family therapy. Not only does he provide a useful, down-to-earth theoretical method, but he tells us how and when to intervent."
- Joseph Melnick, Ph.D., Editor, Gestalt Review
