Gestalt Therapy in Clinical Practice: From Psychopathology to the Aesthetics of Contact

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Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I Basic Principles of Gestalt Therapy in Clinical Practice
1. Fundamentals and Development of Gestalt Therapy in the Contemporary Context
2. Gestalt Therapy Approach to Psychopathology
3. Gestalt Therapy Approach to Diagnosis
4. Developmental Perspective in Gestalt Therapy. The Polyphonic Development of Domains
5. Situated Ethics and the Ethical World of Gestalt Therapy
6. Research and Gestalt Therapy
7. Combination of Gestalt Therapy and Psychiatric Medication
Part II Specific Contexts and Focuses
8. Social Context and Psychotherapy
9. Political Dimension in Gestalt Therapy
10. Living Multicultural Contexts
11. Gestalt Therapy and Developmental Theories
12. Shame
Part III Specific life situations
13. The Gilded Cage of Creative Adjustment: a Gestalt Approach to Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
14. Risk of Psychopathology in Old Age
15. Loss and Grief. Sometimes, just one person missing makes the whole world seem depopulated
16. The Power of “Moving on”. A Gestalt Therapy Approach to Trauma Treatment
17. Assessing Suicidal Risk
Part IV Specific Clinical Sufferings
18. “What Does it Look Like?”. A Gestalt Approach to Dementia
19. Dependent Behaviors
20. Beyond the Pillars of Hercules. A Gestalt Therapy Perspective of Psychotic Experiences
21. Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences
22. Bipolar Experiences
23. Anxiety Within the Situation: Disturbances of Gestalt Construction
24. Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Panic Attacks
25. Gestalt Therapy with the Phobic-Obsessive-Compulsive Relational Styles
26. Anorexic, Bulimic and Hyperphagic Existences: Dramatic Forms of Female Creativity
27. Gestalt Approach to Psychosomatic Disorders
28. Relational Sexual Issues: Love and Lust in Context
29. Introduction to Personality Disturbances. Diagnostic and Social Remarks
30. Borderline. The Wound of the Boundary
31. From the Greatness of the Image to the Fullness of Contact. Thoughts on Gestalt Therapy and Narcissistic Experience
32. Hysteria: Formal Definition and New Approach to a Phenomenological Understanding. A Psychopathological Reconsideration
33. Violent Behaviours
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