Gestalt therapy seeks to treat psychological problems and mental disorders by gaining awareness of emotions and behaviors in the present rather than in the past. The therapist does not interpret experiences for the patient. Instead, the therapist and...

To the degree that spirits are embodied, they are lived through and with, and to this extent also they impinge on the selfhood of their hosts. Boddy (1989) describes how possession expands culturally overdetermined selfhood for Northern Sudanese women....

A form of therapy which is usually conducted in groups and seeks to broaden people’s awareness of themselves by recalling past experiences, emotional states, and bodily sensations. Used in affective education within the humanistic movement in...

Gestalt Therapy is an existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts in which these things take place, and the...

Paul Goodman was pretty much of a mess. There was nothing neat about him, not his person, his ideas, his prose, his theories, his career. Reading him today, you can't help but be struck by how haphazard his essays were, as if he...

Pastoral Counseling: A Gestalt Approach. By Ward A. Knights, Jr. New York: Haworth Pastoral Press, 2002. xii + 125 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Pastoral Counseling: A Gestalt Approach is exactly what the title claims. Knights's text is a refreshing, clear overview of...