Gestalt in Pastoral Care and Counseling Book

Contents Foreword

• Acknowledgments
• A Question of Language
• An Introduction to the Model of Ministry
• A Question of Perspective: Why Gestalt?
• A Statement of Theology
• THE LANGUAGE OF GESTALT
• Here and Now
• Process Vs. Content
• Figure/Ground
• Attending
• The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
• Being Aware
• Theme
• Contact Boundary and Self Regulation
• Polarities
• Resistance
• Confluence
• The Paradoxical Theory of Change
• Levels of Systems
• Experiments
• THE CYCLE OF EXPERIENCE
• The Cycle of Experience
• The Sensation/Awareness Phase of the Cycle of Experience
• The Resistances of the Sensation/Awareness Phase
• The Energy Phase of the Cycle of Experience
• The Resistances of the Energy Phase
• The Action Phase of the Cycle of Experience
• The Resistances of the Action Phase
• The Contact Phase of the Cycle of Experience
• The Resistances of the Contact Phase
• The Assimilation/Withdrawal Phase of the Cycle of Experience
• The Resistances of the Assimilation/Withdrawal Phase
• REVIEW AND CASE STUDIES
• Case Studies
• Bibliography