Gestalt Therapy (book)

Gestalt Therapy

First edition
Author	Frederick Perls, Ralph Hefferline, Paul Goodman
Subject	Psychotherapy
Published	1951 (Julian Press)
Pages	466 pp.

Gestalt Therapy is a 1951 book that outlines an extension to psychotherapy, known as gestalt therapy, written by Fritz Perls, Ralph Hefferline, and Paul Goodman. Presented in two parts, the first introduces psychotherapeutic self-help exercises, and the second presents a theory of personality development and growth.

The book is known in the gestalt community as "PHG". ^[1]

English literature professor George Levine thought of the book as the only emotionally engaging textbook he knew. ^[2]

Paul Goodman during the late 1940s

References

1. House, Richard; Kalisch, David; Proctor, Gillian (2016). "Editorial". Self & Society. 44 (4): 307–309. doi: 10.1080/03060497.2016.1247590 . ISSN   0306-0497 – via Taylor & Francis.
2. Levine 1973, p. 5.

Bibliography

• Belgrad, Daniel (1999). "Gestalt". The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America. University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0-226-04190-2.
• Chappell, Joan (1976). "Book Reviews : GESTALT THERAPY by Frederick Perls, Ralph Hofferline and Paul Goodman". International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 22 (4): 310. doi:10.1177/002076407602200412. ISSN   0020-7640.
• Frank, Jerome D. (1952). "Review of Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 27 (4): 431. doi:10.1086/399270. ISSN   0033-5770. JSTOR   2809536.
• Keel, John S. (1968). "Gestalt Therapy as a Nonaristotelian System". ETC: A Review of General Semantics. 25 (2): 248–254. ISSN   0014-164X. JSTOR   42574441.
• Levine, George (February 18, 1973). "Paul Goodman, Outsider Looking In". The New York Times Book Review . p. 4–6. ISSN   0362-4331. ProQuest   119671494.
• Luchins, Abraham S. (1953). "Review of Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality". The American Journal of Psychology. 66 (1): 165–166. doi:10.2307/1417998. ISSN   0002-9556. JSTOR   1417998.
• Marmor, Judd (1966). "Review of Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 26 (4): 597–598. doi:10.2307/2106229. ISSN   0031-8205. JSTOR   2106229.
• Philippson, Peter (2016). "Paul Goodman and the Gestalt theory of self". Self & Society. 44 (4): 327–332. doi:10.1080/03060497.2016.1249123. ISSN   0306-0497 – via Taylor & Francis.
• Redfearn, J. W. T. (January 1974). "Gestalt therapy (Book)". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 19 (1): 115–116. ISSN   0021-8774. EBSCOhost   10844111.
• Stoehr, Taylor (1994). Here Now Next: Paul Goodman and the Origins of Gestalt Therapy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN   978-0-7879-0005-2. OCLC   30029013.
• —— (March 2009). "Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman: Gestalt Therapy -- An Afterword". Gestalt Review. 13 (1): 82–95. doi:10.5325/gestaltreview.13.1.0082. ISSN   1084-8657. S2CID   148813609.
• Wagshal, Harry (1974). "Education and the 'New Consciousness' Literature". Comparative Education Review. 18 (1): 129–133. doi:10.1086/445760. ISSN   0010-4086. JSTOR   1186122. S2CID   147453167.
• "Gestalt Therapy". Journal of Clinical Psychology. 8 (2): 213–214. April 1952. doi:10.1002/1097-4679(195204)8:2<213::AID-JCLP2270080228>3.0.CO;2-W. ISSN   0021-9762.

External links

• Full text at the Internet Archive