The Emergent Self

An Existential-Gestalt Approach

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Peter Philippson

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The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series

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This book tracks a particular understanding of self, philosophically, from research evidence and in its implications for psychotherapy. At each step, the author includes first the theory he is working from, then the clinical implications of the theory, followed by some links to the philosophical outlook inherent in the theory, and finally a more extended case example.It takes the view that the continuing self is partly an illusion, partly a construct, and that we in fact have to work to stay the same in the face of all the different possibilities the world offers us. The author believes that we do this for two reasons. First of all, continuity allows deeper contact: friendships, loving relationships with partners and families. Secondly, and balancing this, the predictable is less anxiety-producing, and that we avoid this existential anxiety by acting in a stereotyped way and avoiding some of the depths of contact. He argues that this dual nature of continuing self, in one context deepening contact and in another context avoiding contact, has an important place in the understanding of psychotherapy.

Author Biography:

Peter Philippson, M.Sc. (Gestalt Psychotherapy) is a UKCP Registered Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer, a Teaching and Supervising Member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute UK, a founder member of Manchester Gestalt Centre, Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, senior trainer for GITA (Slovenia) and a guest trainer for many training programmes internationally. He is the author of "Self in Relation", co-author of "Contact and Relationship in a Field Perspective", chapter respondent in "Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory and Practice", ed. A. Woldt & S. Toman, editor of "The Nature of Pain" and, (with John Harris), co-author of "Gestalt: Working with Groups", co-editor of "Topics in Gestalt Therapy", and author of many papers on Gestalt therapy in British, French, American, Australian, Canadian and Spanish Gestalt Journals. He is on the Editorial Board of Studies in Gestalt Therapy, an Editorial Advisor of the British Gestalt Journal, and is currently President of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy. Peter is a teacher and student of Traditional Aikido.

Release date NZ

December 31st, 2009

Author

Peter Philippson

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

160

Series

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series

Dimensions

147x230x13

ISBN-13

9781855755253

Product ID

2768924

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