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.
How Gestalt therapy synthesised psychoanalytic theory, Gestalt psychology's principles of perception, and Lewinian field theory into a distinctive therapeutic approach.
Melanie Klein emphasises the role of unconscious defence mechanisms in shaping our perceptions of the world and ourselves. This essay will delve into the core tenets of Klein's theory, focusing on...
This passage explores the intellectual milieu of Frankfurt in the 1920s, highlighting the cross-pollination of ideas that significantly influenced the development of Gestalt therapy by Fritz Perls....
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...
Adam Phillips, argues that self-criticism stems from our ambivalence towards ourselves. We all have mixed feelings about ourselves, but ambivalence goes beyond that. It's about having opposing...
## A Look at the Destructive and Creative Sides Envy, a complex emotion often shrouded in secrecy, takes center stage in this video by Don Carveth. Carveth, a prominent figure in the field of...
This blog post is based on a video by Don Carveth titled “ANXIETY” uploaded on August 7th, 2018. In the video, Carveth discusses anxiety from a psychoanalytic perspective, drawing on the works of...
Comprehensive notes from Gestalt Therapy's seminal book by Fritz Perls, Ralph Hefferline and Paul Goodman — covering contact boundary, creative adjustment, ego functions, and the experiments in self-awareness.
To illustrate how a therapist’s emotions towards client, though brought to awareness and allowed to be revealed, can also be mistaken for authentic reaction to the client’s process, a mentor of mine,...
Wilhelm Reich, in Character Analysis (1945/1984), illustrates the importance of working on the process of the therapeutic relationship – i.e. what is going on between therapist and client— before...
https://youtu.be/oUDuLmjTaZ4 ## Outline of Lecture **I. Introduction** - Dr. Glen Gabbard is the 2018 recipient of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Master Teacher Award [1]. Quote: “I am...
A clinical case study of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy monitored with functional neuroimaging.  ### Tables and images in...
How groups produce their own mythology, and the function of myth as mediator from narcissism to socialism. Notes on Bion's group theory and basic assumptions.
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The art with the theme of the "mother" or good and evil mothers by 19th Century painter, [Giovanni...
A review of Reich's seminal 1933 work on character resistance and its enduring significance for psychotherapy practice today.