Francesetti: Gestalt Therapy, an Engine of Change.
Gestalt therapy is an engine of individual an social change. Francesetti lecture 2023 in Madrid exposes the current relevancy of gestalt therapy field theory in psychotherapy practice.
Dr. Nicole Chew-Helbig, PhD

Gestalt therapy is an engine of individual an social change. Francesetti lecture 2023 in Madrid exposes the current relevancy of gestalt therapy field theory in psychotherapy practice.

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...

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...