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  • A Relational Approach to the Empty Chair

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 10 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    The ‘empty chair’ experiment has had mixed fortunes in Gestalt Therapy. Once it was a central method, with Fritz Perls naming it as one of his essentials, along with a ‘hot seat’ and tissues. It was so prevalent that it got taken as defining the approach, and taught in that way on counselling courses.While the technique has remained meaningful for many Gestaltists, it has fallen into disfavour ... Read more

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  • Why I Don’t Ask Questions in Therapy

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 13 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    When I offer training workshops to people who haven’t seen me work before, one of the main things that they find surprising is how rarely I ask clients questions. In this paper, I discuss the issues that underlie my preference to avoid asking questions. I am aware that to even ask the question can seem strange. People have commented that I don’t see interested in my clients! And in fact, it turns ... Read more

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  • One-Power and Two-Power Therapy

    With thanks to Bob Resnick

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 15 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    In a one-power family, only one person can have power at any one time: either there is one person who always holds the power, or the power moves between the family members in different situations, but still is never shared. In a two-power family, everybody can be powerful, and there is more liveliness, creativity and energy, and also more overt conflict.Having been sensitised to this idea, it ... Read more

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  • The 'Active Principle' in Gestalt Therapy

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 17 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    This is a chapter I was asked to write for a book to be published in Ukraine on the ‘active principle’ in a number of different psychotherapies. The book is now not going to be published, so I am publishing it myself. I would like to thank Larysa Didkovska and the Ukrainian Psychotherapy University for the inspiration to write this.I really like the question: what is the ‘active principle’ in ... Read more

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  • Revisiting the Field

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 1 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    In this paper, I examine the meaning of ‘field’ in Gestalt Therapy, and what a field orientation means for the theory and practice of therapy. I also look at what philosophical principles can add to or take away from the clarity of the approach. ... Read more

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  • The Tyranny of ‘Feelings’

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 7 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    What is the meaning of emotion in therapy? When is it important to focus on ‘feelings’ and when is it counterproductive? This in many ways seems like a ridiculous question, since ‘feelings’ are often taken as the central point of who we are and what we show in therapy. In this article, I want to question the assumption that emotion is necessarily central to therapy, and look at the meaningful ... Read more

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  • A Gestalt Theory of Group Psychotherapy

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 12 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    This paper presents a theory of groups and group psychotherapy, based on the Gestalt Therapy theory of Self, and informed by present-day thinking about human intersubjectivity, especially the work of Daniel Stern. In both these approaches, self is seen as arising from what Stern calls the ‘intersubjective matrix’ rather than belonging to the individual. Thus a ‘group matrix’ with different norms ... Read more

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  • Sexuality: Drive and Relationship

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 9 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    It has become a truism in psychotherapy writings to say that therapy is about the ‘lived-body’ (Körper) rather than the physical body (Leib), and the ‘phenomenal world’ rather than the physical world, and has thus reproduced the Cartesian mind-body split that Perls and Goodman were so keen to move away from. The human animal, with its appetites, skin and genitalia, is gone! So we are left with a ... Read more

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  • Post-Truth: The World Therapy Made!

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 14 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    My thesis in this paper is that the people of the psychotherapy world, including Gestalt therapists, bear part of the responsibility for a world where truth has become fragmented, split off from the physical world of sensory and motor experience, and there is no obvious way for people to share through difference or to question assertions made that are ‘flatly contradicted’ by physical evidence. We ... Read more

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  • Antivax, OCD and Other Projections

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 18 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    My proposal is that the importance of obsessions and compulsions are that they provide an achievable quasi-response to the situation of anxiety and terror when acted out ‘as in a dream’. So frightening and alienating times inevitably bring out a combination of rageful aggression and loss of sensory and human contact with the world if we cannot find a meaningful way to address the danger in a ... Read more

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  • Confluence and Self

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 16 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    It seems important to me to address the place of confluence in the outlook of Gestalt Therapy. Does it have a meaning and functionality in our being in the world, or is it always a problem to be confronted? The latter was true at one stage in earlier Gestalt culture, where confluence was seen as always bad and to be avoided (although this is clearly not what our founding theory said).I will put ... Read more

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  • Group and Self

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 19 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    In this paper, I have tried to do two things: to show how it is possible to talk about self-of-group in Gestalt terms, and to give a practical illustration of the idea of a person as an organ of choice and will of the field (in this case the field of a group). This way of looking at groups can be extended to groups of many sizes and configurations, including national politics and large ... Read more

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