Welcome to THE BRITISH GESTALT JOURNAL 

The British Gestalt Journal
12th Annual BGJ Seminar Day

Saturday, 30th November 2013
11.00am–4.30pm

With talks from:

Peri Mackintosh: Savouring the Situation

Bronagh Starrs: The Impact of Trauma on the Adolescent Journey

Online booking for the next Seminar Day is now open! Find out more here.

Current Issue:

2012 - Volume 21 No.2

CHRISTINE STEVENS: Editorial

GIANNI FRANCESETTI: Pain and beauty: from the psychopathology to the aesthetics of contact

FRANK-M. STAEMMLER: Self-esteem, compassion and self-compassion: from individualism to connectedness

DES KENNEDY: Breaching the silence: accessing 'acquired worlds' at the primordial level

MIKE TURTON: Gestalt therapy as an enlightenment practice

Book Reviews

WANJIKU NYACHAE: Caveat emptor: let the buyer beware. A review of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the Western Mind by Ethan Watters

NEIL HARRIS: Moving in and moving on. A review of The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development, and Psychotherapeutic Change by Ruella Frank and Frances La Barre

LYNNE BRIGHOUSE: More clear thoughts on complex ideas. A review of Skills in Gestalt Counselling and Psychotherapy by Phil Joyce and Charlotte Sills

GAIE HOUSTON: Hidden Pearls. A review of From Planned Psychotherapy to Gestalt Therapy. Essays and lectures – 1945–1965, Frederick Salomon Perls, M.D. by Frederick S. Perls

PETER PHILIPPSON: All work and very little play. A review of Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue edited by Laura Barnett and Greg Madison

KATHRYN MORRIS-ROBERTS: Creative Morsel(s). A review of Reflective Writing in Counselling and Psychotherapy by Jeannie Wright and Gillie E. J. Bolton

Opinion

KATY WAKELIN Debate, dialectic, dialogue: how do we find a place for Gestalt
therapy in a changing world? Keynote speech: GPTI Conference,
Manchester, 29 June 2012

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