Titolo Rivista QUADERNI DI GESTALT
Autori/Curatori Dan Bloom
Anno di pubblicazione 2026 Fascicolo 2025/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 10 P. 53-62 Dimensione file 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/qg2025-2oa21450
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In a world marked by acceleration and dispersion, the aesthetic experience of wonder risks being lost. This article explores how gestalt therapy – particularly as developed within the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy (NYIGT) – offers a clinical and philosophical response to this fragmentation. Drawing on field theory, the temporal sequence of contacting, and the aesthetic of perception, I propose that wonder arises when we linger with experience, allowing novelty to emerge from the ordinary. Through metaphor, clinical reflection, and phenomenological inquiry, I argue that contacting is not merely a therapeutic technique but a rhythmic, aesthetic process that reenchants our engagement with the world. Wonder, like a rainbow, beckons us forward – not as a goal to be grasped, but as a promise sensed in the momenta of contacting.
Parole chiave:Acceleration;Aesthetic;Contacting;Wonder;Taking-time
Dan Bloom, Chasing Rainbows: In Search of Wonder in Gestalt Therapy in "QUADERNI DI GESTALT" 2/2025, pp 53-62, DOI: 10.3280/qg2025-2oa21450