https://gestaltresearch.org/ en https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/application-gestalt-principles-classroom-teaching-0 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Application of Gestalt Principles in Classroom Teaching</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/04/2025 - 12:03</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Principles and techniques derived from Gestalt therapy are being applied in a variety of educational settings internationally. These pioneering efforts in applying Gestalt to education have been taking place through the Confluent Education Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and have focused on a number of broad objectives with respect to teacher personality, teacher skills, and written curriculum. Initial investigations of the results of these applications have noted significant increases in teachers' self-knowledge, sense of personal control, flexibility, and attention to the "here and now." Addi tionally, students in confluent classrooms have shown significant increases in a number of areas, including self-esteem and self-awareness.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Phillips, M</span>. (1976). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>The Application of Gestalt Principles in Classroom Teaching</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Group &amp; Organization Studies</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>1</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(1)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">82-98</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/105960117600100108</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/101" hreflang="en">Theory discussion</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/84" hreflang="en">Paid access</a></div> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:03:05 +0000 luthiers 512 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/effects-two-chair-dialogue-and-focusing-conflict-resolution-0 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Effects of two-chair dialogue and focusing on conflict resolution</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/04/2025 - 11:56</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Examined the effect of the Gestalt 2-chair method on conflict resolution by comparing it, in an analog study, with the focusing technique followed by emphatic reflection. Ss were 42 graduate students in counseling psychology. Results show that (a) the 2-chair dialog applied at a split produced significantly more depth of experiencing (Experiencing Scale) than did focusing plus emphatic reflection, and (b) both treatments produced significantly greater reported shifts in awareness and progress than the no-treatment controls.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Effects of two-chair dialogue and focusing on conflict resolution</span></span></span>. (1980). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Effects of two-chair dialogue and focusing on conflict resolution</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Journal Of Counseling Psychology</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>27</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(3)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">221–224</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.27.3.221</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/100" hreflang="en">Research</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/84" hreflang="en">Paid access</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-level-of-evidence field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/123" hreflang="en">Non-randomized controlled trials or naturalistic study</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-modalities field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">Gestalt psychotherapy</a></div> </div> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:56:52 +0000 luthiers 511 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/commentary-iii-cultivating-community-practitionerresearchers <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Commentary III. Cultivating a Community of Practitioner/Researchers</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/04/2025 - 11:51</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">O’Shea, L</span>. (2014). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Commentary III. Cultivating a Community of Practitioner/Researchers</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Gestalt Review</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>18</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(1)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">36–47</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.18.1.0036</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/101" hreflang="en">Theory discussion</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/84" hreflang="en">Paid access</a></div> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:51:46 +0000 luthiers 510 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/gestalt-learning-theory-graphic-design-education <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Gestalt-A Learning Theory for Graphic Design Education</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/04/2025 - 11:39</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>This article will begin by seeking to define the notion of learning by, through and from experience. A linkage will then be established between these notions of experiences and gestalt theory. This will be explored within a subject specific context of graphic design. Links will be highlighted between the inherent nature of graphic design and those of gestalt psychology. Although reference will be made to other learning theories, particularly behaviourism, this article will proceed into a discussion on how the pursuit of a gestaltist stance has had implications upon the learning experiences of a range of Higher National Diploma / Foundation Degree learners. The article concludes with a summary of its observations and a consideration of this upon future practical and theoretical practice within graphic design education.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Jackson, I</span>. (2008). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Gestalt-A Learning Theory for Graphic Design Education</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>International Journal Of Art &amp; Design Education</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>27</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(1)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">63-69</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2008.00558.x</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/101" hreflang="en">Theory discussion</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/84" hreflang="en">Paid access</a></div> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:39:04 +0000 luthiers 509 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/teorias-de-la-ansiedad-en-la-terapia-gestalt <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Teorías de la ansiedad en la terapia Gestalt</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/04/2025 - 11:22</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/87" hreflang="en">Spanish</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-translated-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Theories of anxiety in Gestalt therapy</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>En el presente artículo se hace una exposición concisa de las diferentes teorizaciones sobre el concepto de ansiedad en la literatura de la terapia Gestalt. Éstas se exponen de manera sistemática; se especifican las características de cada aproximación teórica; y se describe someramente, al final de cada sección, la manera de intervención terapéutica según sea el caso. Finalmente, se hace una revisión breve de los desarrollos teóricos recientes en torno al tema.</p></div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-translated-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In this paper a concise statement of the different theories on the concept of anxiety in the  literature  of  the  gestalt  therapy  is  done.  These  are  discussed  systematically;  the  characteristics of each theoretical approach are specified; and the manner of therapeutic intervention, as the case may be, is briefly described at the end of each section. Finally, a brief review of recent theoretical developments on the subject becomes</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/87" hreflang="en">Spanish</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Montalvo, D. C</span>. (2017). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Teorías de la ansiedad en la terapia Gestalt</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Poiésis</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>1</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(33)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">46–57</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21501/16920945.2495</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/101" hreflang="en">Theory discussion</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/83" hreflang="en">Open access</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-modalities field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">Gestalt psychotherapy</a></div> </div> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:22:34 +0000 luthiers 508 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/meditacao-mindfulness-e-gestalt-terapia-um-encontro-possivel-para-saude-humana <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Meditação Mindfulness E Gestalt- Terapia: Um Encontro Possível Para A Saúde Humana</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/04/2025 - 10:51</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/88" hreflang="en">Portuguese</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-translated-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Mindfulness and Gestalt-therapy Meditation: A Possible Encounter for Human Health</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A Meditação Mindfulness vem sendo associada ao aumento do bem-estar subjetivo, à redução da reatividade emocional e à regulação do comportamento. Por sua vez, a Gestalt-terapia, tradicionalmente, tem a autoconsciência e a experiência presente no aqui e agora compondo sua proposta teórico-prática. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste estudo foi identificar possibilidades de interlocução teórico-práticas entre a técnica Meditação Mindfulness e a abordagem psicológica Gestalt-terapia. Buscou-se identificar, comparar e contrastar os termos comuns e conceitos encontrados em seus respectivos arcabouços teórico-práticos. Apesar desses conceitos terem seus significados constituídos em suas diferentes teorias, foi possível identificar pontos de interlocução entre as propostas teórico-práticas. A autoconsciência integradora, a autoconsciência funcional e a autorregulação espontânea são os três eixos que demonstram a interlocução e que indicam um encontro entre a Meditação Mindfulness e a Gestalt-terapia.</p></div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-translated-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Mindfulness Meditation has been associated with increased subjective well-being,  reduced  emotional  reactivity,  and  behavioral  regulation.  In  turn,  Gestalt  therapy  tra-ditionally has the self-awareness and experience present here and now composing its theoretical  and  practical  proposal.  In  this  sense,  the  objective  of  this  study  was  to  identify  possibilities  of  theoretical  and  practical  dialogue  between  the  Mindfulness  Meditation  technique  and  the  Gestalt  therapy  psychological  approach.  We  sought  to  identify,  compare and contrast the common terms and concepts found in their respective theoretical and practical  frameworks.  Although  these  concepts  have  their  meanings  constituted  in  their  different theories, it was possible to identify points of dialogue between the theoretical and practical proposals. Integrating selfawareness, functional self-awareness and spontaneous selfregulation are the three axes that demonstrate dialogue and indicate a meeting between Mindfulness Meditation and Gestalt therapy.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/88" hreflang="en">Portuguese</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/87" hreflang="en">Spanish</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-translated-title-2 field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Meditación Mindfulness y Gestalt-terapia: un encuentro posible para la salud humana</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-translated-abstract-2 field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>La  meditación  de  atención  plena  se  ha  asociado  con  un  mayor  bienestar  subjetivo,  una  menor  reactividad  emocional  y  una  regulación  conductual.  A  su  vez,  la  terapia Gestalt tradicionalmente tiene la autoconciencia y la experiencia presente aquí y ahora componiendo su propuesta teórica y práctica. En este sentido, el objetivo de este estudio fue identificar posibilidades de diálogo teórico y práctico entre la técnica de Meditación Mindfulness y el enfoque psicológico de la terapia Gestalt. Intentamos identificar, comparar y contrastar los términos y conceptos comunes que se encuentran en sus respectivos marcos teóricos y prácticos. Aunque estos conceptos tienen sus significados constituidos en sus diferentes teorías, fue posible identificar puntos de diálogo entre las propuestas teóricas y  prácticas.  Integrar  la  autoconciencia,  la  autoconciencia  funcional  y  la  autorregulación  espontánea son los tres ejes que demuestran el diálogo e indican una reunión entre la Meditación Mindfulness y la terapia Gestalt.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Nunes, A. L., &amp; de Souza, M. L</span>. (2020). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Meditação Mindfulness E Gestalt- Terapia: Um Encontro Possível Para A Saúde Humana</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Phenomenology, Humanities And Sciences</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>1</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(1)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">152–176</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.62506/phs.v1i1.13</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/101" hreflang="en">Theory discussion</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/83" hreflang="en">Open access</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-modalities field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">Gestalt psychotherapy</a></div> </div> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:51:12 +0000 luthiers 507 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/teaching-and-conducting-gestalt-research-through-istituto-di-gestalt-hcc-italy-capturing-0 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Teaching and conducting Gestalt Research through the Istituto di Gestalt, HCC Italy: Capturing the vitality of relationships in research</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 11/27/2025 - 12:24</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In this paper, I would like to share my experience as a Gestalt therapy trainer for almost forty years now and relate how important research has been in my work. When I opened my institute with other colleagues in 1979, I came from a solid academic background and I loved Gestalt therapy. I had just turned 23 and, after graduating and working for two years as a university lecturer in Rome, I had moved back to Sicily, where there was certainly no tradition of the approach. The spirit of curiosity and creativity that underpins Gestalt therapy has always appealed to me, as much as the spirit of research. Moreover, as all of my family were mathematicians, statistics has always been in my blood.</p> <p>Today I can say that research falls perfectly within the scope of the challenge that the founders set themselves–the challenge of creating a method that could describe and sustain the spontaneity of life, without depriving relationships of their vitality through diagnostic categories or interpretive practices (Perls et al., 1994). The most interesting research that Gestalt practitioners can pursue is that which confirms the validity of the core principal of our work, which is that therapy lies in supporting a spontaneity that the therapist grasps in the movement co-created with the client. I have sought to uphold this spirit in the training and research activities of my Institute.</p> <p>I will begin with the Gestalt therapist’s encounter with training and research; that is, with a discussion of the particular experience of Gestalt training, which is phenomenological, aesthetic, and field-oriented. Then I will give a brief description of the underlying concepts of the approach and provide examples of related research. Psychopathology, the development of relational suffering, the therapeutic alliance, and other aspects will be examined from the point of view of research. What will emerge is how the aims of research cannot be severed from the actual purpose of psychotherapy, even though our approach was established for very different ends. I will then introduce the concept of aesthetic relational knowledge of the field and the concept of dnce steps as a proposed description of the attunement between the therapist and client, in line with new cultural forms of expression. Finally, I will present the cutting-edge research my Institute has done on dance steps and its clinical application.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Spagnuolo Lobb, M</span>. (2019). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Teaching and conducting Gestalt Research through the Istituto di Gestalt, HCC Italy: Capturing the vitality of relationships in research</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-in">In</span> <span class="citeproc-container-contributors">P. Brownell (Ed.)</span>, <span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy</span></span> (<span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-edition">2nd Editionnd <span class="citeproc-edition">ed.</span></span>, pp. <span class="citeproc-page">370-397</span></span>)</span>. <span class="citeproc-publisher"><span class="citeproc-publisher-place">Newcastle upon Tyne, UK</span>: <span class="citeproc-publisher">Cambridge Scholars Publishing</span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access"><span class="citeproc-retrieved">Retrieved</span> <span class="citeproc-from">de</span> <span class="citeproc-URL">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333386235_Spagnuolo_Lobb_M_2019_Teaching_and_Conducting_Gestalt_Research_through_the_Istituto_di_Gestalt_HCC_Italy_Capturing_the_Vitality_of_Relationships_in_Research_In_Brownell_P_Ed_Handbook_for_Theory_Resear</span></span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/83" hreflang="en">Open access</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-modalities field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">Gestalt psychotherapy</a></div> </div> Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:24:39 +0000 luthiers 506 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/phenomenology-and-aesthetic-recognition-dance-between-psychotherapist-and-client-clinical <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Phenomenology and aesthetic recognition of the dance between psychotherapist and client: a clinical example</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 11/12/2025 - 13:44</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>This article follows a first presentation of the 'dance steps' between therapist and client, which appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of this journal, and gives a clinical example of how this phenomenological and aesthetic observational tool works in practice. The research path of the tool is also sketched. This contribution is presented in the frame of reference of psychotherapists' political and social response-ability today. For the author, a main clinical problem today derives from the lack of recognition from the other, which makes bodily desensitisation evident in our clients. This brings Gestalt therapists to focus on the reciprocity of their interactions with clients, instead of on how the client makes contact, because there, in the actual dance between them, is the possibility of revitalising the contact boundary, where the self is co-created.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Spagnuolo Lobb, M</span>. (2017). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Phenomenology and aesthetic recognition of the dance between psychotherapist and client: a clinical example</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>British Gestalt Journal</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>26</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(2)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">50–56</span></span></span>.</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/102" hreflang="en">Research methodology</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/83" hreflang="en">Open access</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-level-of-evidence field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/127" hreflang="en">Qualitative research</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-modalities field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">Gestalt psychotherapy</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-ref-external-url field--type-link field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35208454/Phenomenology_and_aesthetic_recognition_of_the_dance_between_psychotherapist_and_client_a_clinical_example">https://www.academia.edu/35208454/Phenomenology_and_aesthetic_recognition_of_th…</a></div> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:44:25 +0000 luthiers 505 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/aesthetic-relational-knowledge-field-revised-concept-awareness-gestalt-therapy-and-0 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Aesthetic Relational Knowledge of the Field: A Revised Concept of Awareness in Gestalt Therapy and Contemporary Psychiatry</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 11/12/2025 - 13:35</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>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.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Spagnuolo Lobb, M</span>. (2018). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>Aesthetic Relational Knowledge of the Field: A Revised Concept of Awareness in Gestalt Therapy and Contemporary Psychiatry</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Gestalt Review</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>22</span></span><span class="citeproc-issue">(1)</span>, <span class="citeproc-page">50–68</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.22.1.0050</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/101" hreflang="en">Theory discussion</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/84" hreflang="en">Paid access</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-modalities field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">Gestalt psychotherapy</a></div> </div> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:35:19 +0000 luthiers 504 at https://gestaltresearch.org https://gestaltresearch.org/gprdb/emotional-personality-psychotherapists-pilot-research-gestalt-therapy-clinicians <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Emotional Personality of Psychotherapists: A Pilot Research with Gestalt-Therapy Clinicians</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>luthiers</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 11/12/2025 - 13:27</span> <div class="field field--name-field-language field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-abstract field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Since the discovery of “countertransference”, it was recognized that the therapist’s personality plays an important role in determining the course of psychotherapy. However, systematic empirical works on this topic have been sparse compared to the enormous amount of theoretical literature. Therefore, in the following pilot study, the emotional profile of psychotherapists was investigated using the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS), a quantitative measure of the basic emotional foundations of human personality based on Jaak Panksepp’s neuro-ethological studies. More specifically, we submitted the ANPS to a population of Gestalt-therapists to ascertain if they share a characteristic emotional profile (1) and if the emotional traits of personality are related to specific intersubjective competences (2). Our results show that, compared with normal population, the personality of therapists is characterized by higher expression of PLAYFULNESS/joy, CARE/nurturance and Spirituality, as well as a significant decrease in the expression of the RAGE/anger disposition. Such emotional traits, that are not influenced by the experience of training, correlate with important relational skills such as empathy, reflective functioning and interoceptive awareness. Therefore, unlearned emotional dispositions have high relevance in the development of the therapist’s sensitivity to the phenomenological intersubjective field, a competence recently called “Aesthetic Relational Knowledge” in a contemporary Gestalt-approach. Our findings may have implications for training therapists and optimizing treatment outcomes.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-language-2 field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/86" hreflang="en">English</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-bibcite field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-bibcite-reference clearfix field__item"><article class="bibcite-reference"> <div class="bibcite-citation"> <div class="csl-bib-body"><div><div class="csl-entry"><span class="citeproc-author">Alcaro, A., Iacono Isidoro, S., Conversi, D., Accoto, A., &amp; Spagnuolo Lobb, M</span>. (2020). <span class="citeproc-title-and-descriptions"><span class="citeproc-title"><span>The Emotional Personality of Psychotherapists: A Pilot Research with Gestalt-Therapy Clinicians</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-container"><span class="citeproc-container-title"><span>Psychology</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-locators"><span class="citeproc-volume"><span>11</span></span>, <span class="citeproc-page">1628-1645</span></span></span>. <span class="citeproc-access">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2020.1111103</span></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-document-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/100" hreflang="en">Research</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-access-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/83" hreflang="en">Open access</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-level-of-evidence field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/123" hreflang="en">Non-randomized controlled trials or naturalistic study</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-modalities field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--entity-reference-target-type-taxonomy-term clearfix field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/131" hreflang="en">Emotion-focused therapy</a></div> </div> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:27:00 +0000 luthiers 503 at https://gestaltresearch.org