Reflections About the Figure/Ground Connection Between Gestalt Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Journal title QUADERNI DI GESTALT
Author/s Bernd Bocian
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/1
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 89-101 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/GEST2018-001007
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The article is a reflection on the historic connection between Gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis. It originates from a series of meetings and dialogues between the two approaches that identified Gestalt therapy as a figure of the complicated and constantly evolving ground of psychoanalysis. Various evolutionary lines of this process are identified, with attention to the formative and transformative meetings that influenced Fritz and Laura Perls. The article is a request for us to maintain a critical attitude toward Gestalt therapy and to take a curious attitude towards the contributions of contemporary psychoanalysts.

Keywords: Gestalt psychotherapy, psychoanalytic approach, field, dialogic attitude

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Bernd Bocian, Riflessioni sulla relazione figura/sfondo tra terapia della Gestalt e psicoanalisi in "QUADERNI DI GESTALT" 1/2018, pp 89-101, DOI: 10.3280/GEST2018-001007