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Kyiv Institute of Gestalt and PsychodramaKyiv Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama
  • About
    • About KIGiP
    • Code of ethics
    • Reviews
    • Our specialists
  • Training
    • How we train
    • Gestalt level 1
    • Gestalt level 2 (online)
    • Gestalt level 3
    • Gestalt level 4
  • Events
    • Level 1
    • Level 2
    • Level 4
    • Lectures
    • Therapy groups
    • Study groups
    • Specialisations
    • Supervision
    • Intensives and conferences
  • For students
    • Level 2 certification
    • Reading list
    • Supervisors
    • Therapists
    • Therapist accreditation
  • Lectures and recordings
    • Basic gestalt lecture course
    • Polyvagal theory course
    • Gestalt conference 2022
    • Open lectures
    • Therapist self-support
    • Measuring therapy outcomes
    • Adapting therapy to the client
    • Adapting therapy to the client
    • The responsive psychotherapist
    • Working with men in therapy
    • From trauma to resilience
  • Blog
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    • Contact us
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Reading list for gestalt therapists

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LIST OF RECOMMENDED READING

Recommended reading for students of the course

«Psychological counselling and gestalt therapy»

  • I. Buliubash, «A Guide to Gestalt Therapy»

  • J. Bugental, «The Art of Being Alive: dialogues between therapist and patient in humanistic psychotherapy»

  • S. Ginger, «Gestalt: The Art of Contact»

  • J. Zinker, «In Search of Good Form: Gestalt Therapy with Couples and Families»

  • Gary Yontef, «Gestalt Therapy: An Introduction»

  • N. Lebedieva, E. Ivanova, «A Journey into Gestalt. Theory and practice»

  • Frederick Perls, «The Gestalt Approach & Eye Witness to Therapy»

  • Frederick Perls, «Gestalt Therapy Verbatim»

  • Frederick Perls, «Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality» (practicum)

  • Frederick Perls, «Ego, Hunger and Aggression»

  • Frederick Perls, «In and Out the Garbage Pail»

  • J.-M. Robine, «Gestalt Therapy»

  • Jean-Marie Robine, «The Making and Unmaking of Gestalts»

  • Jaro Starak, «Techniques of Gestalt Therapy for Every Day. Risk to Be Alive»

  • B. and J. Weinhold, «Flight from Intimacy»

  • B. and J. Weinhold, «Breaking Free of the Co-Dependency Trap»

  • John Enright, «Enlightening Gestalt»

Further reading:

  • A. Beisser, «The Paradoxical Theory of Change»

  • Brigitte Martel, «Sexuality, Love and Gestalt»

  • Claudio Naranjo, «Gestalt Therapy: The Attitude and Practice of an Atheoretical Experientialism»

  • A. Mokhovikov, «Mental Pain. Its nature, diagnosis and the principles of gestalt therapy»

  • Muriel Schiffman, «Gestalt Self Therapy. New techniques of personal growth»

  • E. and M. Polster, «Every Person’s Life is Worth a Novel»

  • Jean-Marie Robine, «Being in the Presence of the Other»

  • Jean-Marie Robine, «The Making and Unmaking of Gestalts»

  • Jaro Starak, «Techniques of Gestalt Therapy for Every Day. Risk to Be Alive»

  • Bud Feder, «Peeling the Onion: A Gestalt Therapy Manual»

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