Jennifer Mackewn is a psychotherapist, trainer, organizational consultant and writer. She is a teaching member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute, a trainer at the Institute for the Arts in Therapy and Education, the Metanoia Institute, and an Associate of Roffey Park Management College. She is co-author of Fritz Perls (SAGE, 1993) and has written several articles and chapters on counselling and psychotherapy.
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Introduction A Field Theoretical and Relational Model of Contemporary Integrative Gestalt Attending to Beginnings Initial Conditions and Existential Meeting Exploring the Client's Context and Culture Developing a Dialogic Relationship as a Crucible for Self Development Observing Process, Developing Diagnostic Perspectives and Therapeutic Strategies Exploring Awareness and Contact Integrating Experimental, Creative and Transpersonal Dimensions Working with Embodiment, Energy and `Resistance' Attending to the Background Features and Processes in Clients' Lives Shaping Counselling over Time Conclusion Simplicity, Complexity and Paradox in Gestalt Counselling and Therapy
`In this eminently sensible, practical and thought-provoking book, Jennifer Mackewn takes gestalt light years forwards towards a synthesis and integration of psychological styles and away from what she describes as "Perlism". I agree with her: this is a book for therapists, not principally for gestaltists... In inviting the reader to "pick and choose" from the many and varied, always practical, hands-on approach chapters... Jennifer Mackewn hopes we will both enjoy her book and find it of use. This reader, commending the book to you all, has no doubt that both her hopes will be fulfilled' - Self & Society