Widening the Boundaries of Psychoanalysis... and Preparing the Ground for Gestalt Therapy

Journal title QUADERNI DI GESTALT
Author/s Serge Ginger
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/1 Language Italian
Pages 10 P. 91-100 File size 198 KB
DOI 10.3280/GEST2017-001007
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This article points out that some concepts and therapeutic procedures were already developed by Ferenczi 25 years before Perls. Among others, these were: introjection, the potential richness of the counter-transference and the involvement of the therapist, the importance of the process at the precise moment of every therapeutic session, the role of the emotions and of the body, and so on. Ferenczi and Perls’ approaches were both based on humanistic philosophy and very far from the cold and scientific approach of Freud. Their approaches considered the patient in his own environment and in his interpersonal and social relationships.

Keywords: Sandor Ferenczi, precursor of Gestalt therapy, active technique, humanistic approach.

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Serge Ginger, Sándor Ferenczi: Allargare i confini della psicoanalisi... e preparare il terreno per la terapia della Gestalt in "QUADERNI DI GESTALT" 1/2017, pp 91-100, DOI: 10.3280/GEST2017-001007