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by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb (Editor), Pietro Cavaleri (Editor)
This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens.
Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on clinical issues - a situational window, which includes the therapist and avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field. Through clinical case studies and theoretical reflections, the book examines the experience of children, difficult childhood situations (such as separations, abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent social closure), the experience of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of patients, and second, the aesthetic relational knowing, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated.
Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach is essential reading for Gestalt therapists as well as all clinicians with an interest in phenomenological and aesthetic understanding of the complexity of clinical situations.
Author Biography
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, PsyD, is a Gestalt psychotherapist, director of Istituto di Gestalt Human Communication Center Italy (www.gestaltitaly.com); Scientific Director of International Training Programs in "Gestalt Therapy Psychopathology and Development"; and "Gestalt Therapy Supervisors". Editor of the Journal Gestalt Therapy Journal, and of the Gestalt Therapy Book Series (Routledge). Author of The Now for Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Recounted in Post Modern Society. She has received the Lifelong Achievement Award from AAGT (2018).
Pietro Andrea Cavaleri, PhD, PsyD, is a Gestalt Psychotherapist and Trainer at Istituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy. He has taught at the University of Palermo, at LUMSA University and at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences "Auxilium". He has been psychologist in chief at the Public Health Service and counselor for social policies of Caltanissetta. Author of Living with the Other: Contribution for a Culture of Relationship; The Depth of Surface: Introduction to Gestalt Psychotherapy.
