Dr. Nicole Chew-Helbig, PhD
A century of relational thinking — from Jaspers' phenomenology through psychoanalysis to Gestalt field theory — offers a radical alternative to the medical model of mental suffering.
I was on Facebook when two striking posts caught my attention. Friends in Los Angeles shared images of raging wildfires against an apocalyptic orange sky, while simultaneously, contacts in Singapore...
The Dao De Jing (or Tao Te Ching 道德经) is a foundational text of Chinese philosophy and Taoism. The Dao De Jing, an essential text in both traditional Chinese culture and world philosophy, is...
In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, many of us find ourselves grappling with feelings of disconnection and fragmentation. From the pressures of work and social media to the demands of...
Wilhelm Reich was a prominent figure in the early development of psychoanalytic techniques, particularly noted for his integration of body movements and psychological experiences, as well as his...
I’m posting this marking the passing of Erving Polster at 102 last week. https://youtu.be/FscJjqEyMWM?si=Cuvouru5BRtCTeF1 According to the video, Erving Polster, then at 98-years of age, talks...
Karen Horney (1885-1952) was a pioneering German-American psychoanalyst who challenged traditional Freudian views and made significant contributions to our understanding of personality, neurosis, and...
Notes from Gestalt Therapy's seminal book by Fritz Perls, Ralf Hefferline and Paul Goodman, Published in 1951 republished in 1994, entitled, "Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human...
Bocian's article, translated by F. Staemmler, "From free association to concentration: from alienation to Ferenczi's "forced fantasies" and "the third" in Gestalt Therapy", helps us to grasp the...
Since its founding, Gestalt therapy has been at odds with the dominant medical and psychiatric paradigm of therapeutic change. In the 1970s and early days of its development, the founders of this...
A *thousand plastic flowers * *Don’t make a desert bloom * *A thousand empty faces * *Don’t fill an empty room.* Fritz Perls I enjoy reading this book, written “ad verbatim”, as the title...
The founder of Gestalt therapy, Fritz Perls tells us in his own voice in this gem of a video. What gestalt therapy is. Listen to this, and we can make up our minds as to how relevant this modality of...
In his book *Schöpferische Indifferenz*, philosopher Salomo Friedlaender* (1918/2013) *opens with [1] & [2]: > *Creative Indifference, individual: please don't immediately misunderstand that first...
Field theory is a Gestalt therapy term that warrants interest. Psychotherapy practitioners who consider the field *and* know how to use this insight in their clinical work can expect better outcome....
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder explained and treated with Gestalt Therapy method.
If the process of psychoanalysis, as defined by Freud's Anna O., defined as a "talking cure" (Breuer & Freud, 1893/2009), what about Gestalt therapy? Gestalt therapy is a holistic approach to...
A client who has just started therapy will experience different kind of session as a client who has been with the therapist for a longer period of time. Similarly, clients who experience psychosis...
Kernberg's model of personality organization provides us with a helpful visual of how differently experienced psychological symptoms relate with each other. Symptoms of personality disorder are very...
Polster and Polster (1973, p. 176) in their book *[Gestalt therapy...
This five phases of change is also termed as five levels of neurosis. Whatever the terminology, it describes a process by which a client goes through when lasting and cathartic change...
Bobby McFerrin is famous for his hit song, "Don't Worry Be Happy". In this video, he demonstrates how the crowd intuitively synchronizes to the pentatonic scale. Ferrin says, "What's interesting to...
Dreams. What are they? For those of us who know already, dreams are the windows to our unconscious. To fall asleep and dream is to let go of our outer world. In doing so, the life of our inner world...