This book aims to support the
growth of the Gestalt therapy community.
The book includes
contributions from many colleagues who are active in social
interventions, and who are a part of the Human Dignity & Social
Responsibility Committee of the EAGT.
To give voice to this
work, to make all Gestalt psychotherapists aware of the professional
experience and the work of these colleagues is a way of us all
growing together, a way of sharing the human suffering they
experience every day with other colleagues from around the globe,
who will be enriched, both personally and professionally, by this
vitality at their contact boundary.
If psychopathology for
Gestalt therapy is conceived as a desensitisation at the contact
boundary, then this book revitalises our contact boundary with
extreme situations which we cannot avoid in our life and our
profession.
To work on traumas is a needed development of
our profession, but this has to include the context the person lives
in (it is different to work with traumatised people in traumatising
environments than in safe ones) and a knowledge of what is
culturally and politically possible in that environment.
From
Introductory Note by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb and Jeff Allisonthis
book [...] aims to support the growth of the Gestalt therapy
community. The book includes contributions from many colleagues who
are active in social interventions, and who are a part of the Human
Dignity & Social Responsibility Committee of the EAGT.
To give voice to this work, to make all Gestalt
psychotherapists aware of the professional experience and the work
of these colleagues is a way of us all growing together, a way of
sharing the human suffering they experience every day with other
colleagues from around the globe, who will be enriched, both
personally and professionally, by this vitality at their contact
boundary.
If psychopathology for Gestalt therapy is
conceived as a desensitisation at the contact boundary, then this
book revitalises our contact boundary with extreme situations which
we cannot avoid in our life and our profession.
To work on
traumas is a needed development of our profession, but this has to
include the context the person lives in (it is different to work
with traumatised people in traumatising environments than in safe
ones) and a knowledge of what is culturally and politically possible
in that environment.
From Introductory Note by Margherita
Spagnuolo Lobb and Jeff Allison
SUPPORTING HUMAN DIGNITY
IN A COLLAPSING
FIELD
EDITORS :
Guus Klaren
MSW, Gestalt therapist, supervisor, international trainer and
consultant in private practice. Facilitated transformation process
for a wide range of organizations. Initially worked as a social
worker and a teacher methodology social work to vocational training.
Former senior partner of a local NGO in Ghana working with
communities at socio-economic poverty reduction. Past president of
Dutch/Flemish Association for Gestalt Theory and Therapy (NVAGT).
Member of Human Rights and Social Responsibility Committee of EAGT.
Registered EAGT therapist, supervisor and GPO. Contact: gklaren@hetnet.nl
Joanna
Kato Mgr. Psychologist, Gestalt therapist, supervisor and trainer.
Works in private practice and is an associate and volunteer at Babel
Day Centre in Athens, Greece. Trains internationally. Current chair
of the Human Rights and Social Responsibility Committee of EAGT and
member of the Greek Association of Gestalt Therapy (HAGT).
Involved in the field of human rights since 1997. EAP member,
ECP holder. Contact: kato.joan@gmail.com
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ISBN
978-88-98912-23-
Nurith Levi PhD, MSW, is a
certified psychotherapist, family and Gestalt therapist and
supervisor. Works in private practice, with couples, families,
groups and individuals. Specialist in children and adolescents'
therapy. International Gestalt trainer and supervisor. Chairperson
of Training Standards Committee, and member of Human Rights and
Social Responsibility committee of EAGT. Former Dean and senior
lecturer at the academic College Beit Berl, senior lecturer at the
School of Social Work at Ben Gurion and Tel Aviv Universities.
Founder and first elected Chairperson of the Israeli Association for
Gestalt Therapy. Volunteer at child protection projects (forensic
evaluations, guardian ad litem, foster and adoption
families).
Contact: levi.nurith@gmail.com |
