From the Radical Center

• Roberts, Introduction. Prologue. Part I: Setting the Stage. A Contemporary Psychotherapy. The Language of Experience. Sensory Functioning in Psychotherapy. Women in Therapy: A Gestalt Therapist's View. Gestalt Therapy: Evolution and Application. Part II: Transformation of Principles. Therapy Without Resistance: Gestalt Therapy. Escape from the Present. Tight Therapeutic Sequences. Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel. The Therapeutic Power of Attention. The Self in Action: A Gestalt Outlook. Translating Theory into Practice: Martin Heidegger and Gestalt Therapy. Commonality and Diversity in Gestalt Therapy. In Memory of Carl Rogers: Great Men Cast Great Shadows. Part III. The Role of Community. Encounter in Community . Eve's Daughters: The Forbidden Heroism of Women. Individuality and Communality. Beyond One to One. It's Only the Most Recent Year of the Woman. Coda. What's New?

"The Polsters have put forth an original body of work which distinguishes itself not only by its theoretical bravado, but by its intention to include and acknowledge a great variety of dissonant perspectives within Gestalt therapy. The energy resulting from their effort leaps off the page."- Arthur Roberts, Ph.D.