A Conversation with Erving Polster and Lynne Jacobs

Description:

A Conversation with Erving Polster and Lynne Jacobs.

On this wide-ranging dialog about their lives and their gestalt remedy passions, additionally they focus on a video session collectively. The conversations embrace a have a look at factors of disagreement in addition to factors of settlement between them. The whole dialog consists of 8 chapters, in order that viewers can simply skip by way of the video to the segments that curiosity them probably the most.

Chapters:

• Chapter One: The Conversation Begins: Private Historical past and Some Gestalt Remedy Concept.

  Our dialog begins with a dialogue the historical past of our curiosity in gestalt remedy and our skilled paths. There are a couple of private tales, discussions of the intersection of psychoanalysis and gestalt remedy, alongside with a idea dialogue of inventive resistance, and a dialogue of the strain between a content material and course of focus. The chapter ends with a have a look at how Erv and Lynne bridge divides in private and skilled pursuits.

• Chapter Two: Insights: Lynne Describes Some Insights from Learning Psychoanalysis.

  This quick section focuses on Lynne’s integration of a specific up to date psychoanalytic idea with Gestalt remedy.

• Chapter Three: Concept Issues.

  We focus on and argue about similarities and variations in our theoretical and scientific stances. We vary extensively over matters that catch our curiosity within the second. We tackle contact, empathy, transference, “assembly,” self-disclosure, judgment and interpretation, consciousness, distortion and pungent language vs. idea language. We study the distinction between forefront (rising edge) focus and trailing edge focus in scientific work, which turns into related within the video section within the subsequent chapter.

• Chapter 4: Scientific Course of: A Video of Erving working, with Feedback from Lynne.

  We watch a video of Erv working with somebody eat an Evolution of Psychotherapy convention. Lynne presents a essential evaluation of the distinction between forefront and trailing edge focus and the scientific implications of every.

• Chapter 5: Scientific Issues and Concept Issues.

  We proceed to debate forefront/trailing edge approaches to scientific work. A dialogue about what we imply by, “self” happen, with agreements and disagreements, and a number of forays into defining what we imply by the phrase, “self,” and what we imply by “identification."

• Chapter Six: More Theory, and A Closer Look at Erv’s Self-Experience.

  We find ways to speak of “here and now" that may enliven the idea. This section focuses extra on fleshing out our lives with a better have a look at how Erv sees himself, with a evaluation of some extra of his life, his vulnerabilities, his love of his work.

• Chapter Seven: A Take a look at "Life-long Studying Communities”.

  On this transient section we take a better have a look at Erv’s “group life-long studying” advocacy.

• Chapter Eight: Residing with Growing old.

  On this quick section Erv talks of growing older, his life after Miriam, and his continued, residing and loving alongside Rose Lee.