Gestalt Review

Aesthetic Relational Knowledge of the Field: A Revised Concept of Awareness in Gestalt Therapy and Contemporary Psychiatry

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
Gestalt psychotherapyTheory discussionEnglish
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Abstracts

[This article supports the need for psychotherapy and psychiatry to overcome the fragmentation of scientific knowledge. The author focuses briefly on the evolving relationship between psychotherapy and society, providing a brief overview of today's clinical needs. She then proposes a new development in the clinical concept of awareness from the optics of the field: aesthetic relational knowledge as a clinical tool that emerges from the phenomenological, aesthetic, relational, and process-oriented approach that is the Gestalt method. Therapeutic competence, in other words, is empathic and resonates with the client in a cocreated field. A clinical example will demonstrate how the concept of aesthetic relational knowledge can be used in a Gestalt therapy setting.]

Journal
Gestalt Review
Author
Publisher
Gestalt Review
Year of Publication
2018
Volume
22
Number of Pages
50-68,
ISBN Number
10848657, 19454023
DOI
10.5325/gestaltreview.22.1.0050

APA citation

Spagnuolo Lobb, M. (2018). Aesthetic Relational Knowledge of the Field: A Revised Concept of Awareness in Gestalt Therapy and Contemporary Psychiatry. Gestalt Review, 22, 50-68, . https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.22.1.0050