Journal title QUADERNI DI GESTALT
Author/s Mercurio Albino Macaluso
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2015/2
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 75-88 File size 194 KB
DOI 10.3280/GEST2015-002005
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Referring to the theory of the self presented by Perls, Hefferline and Goodman in Gestalt Therapy (1951), this work examines the Gestalt concept of spontaneity and its clinical implications. Spontaneity is a quality of good contact, of full experience. When s/he is fully present in the here and now with the other, the therapist is in the better condition to grasp what occurs at the contact boundary with the client and to respond to it in a spontaneous way. With this understanding, the spontaneity of the therapist, that is never separated from responsibility that the role of caring implies, becomes a fundamental tool of therapy.
Keywords: Spontaneity, awareness, concentration, contact boundary, responsibility.
Mercurio Albino Macaluso, La spontaneità dell’incontro terapeutico come fattore chiave di cambiamento in "QUADERNI DI GESTALT" 2/2015, pp 75-88, DOI: 10.3280/GEST2015-002005