Stefan Blankertz
The Society You Live In Be Yours
How Gestalt Therapy was Developed between Berlin and New York
Schriftenreihe des Berliner Gestaltsalons in der edition g. 412
Gestalt therapy is a peerless therapeutic concept: helping people in psychological distress and supporting them in finding their way back to a zest for life without re-integrating them into the rat race. Combining meaningful, helpful, non-self-destructive rebellion with necessary adaptation that is just barely acceptable for the organism is a challenging task.
Biographical, historical, and cultural sources influencing the founding parents of Gestalt therapy are knitted together here and bring the emergence of Gestalt therapy to life: Laura and Fritz Perls from Germany and Paul Goodman in America form a team of strong opposites, united by their progenitor Sigmund Freud and his fallen angel Wilhelm Reich: this book is a tour de force whose author has been working on the theory of Gestalt therapy for half a century.
German original published in 2024 under the title Leb in Gesellschaft, die deine ist: Wie die Gestalttherapie sich entwickelte zwischen Berlin und New York.
344 pages
ISBN 979-8-3109-9127-9