Gestalt and regression *

Philippson, Peter

doi:10.4324/9780429475276-11

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“…Aggression, then, is essential to the figure/background process of contacting. Fundamentally, aggression is intrinsic in contacting as the power that enables differentiation of self from other aspects of the environment (Philippson, 2001; Spagnuolo Lobb, 2007) and makes initiative itself possible (Lichtenberg, 2012). Yet formulating contacting solely in terms of aggression is deficient.…”

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Intentionality: The fabric of relationality.

Bloom¹

2020

The Humanistic Psychologist

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The coronavirus pandemic is a world-historical event. We live in a post-Covid world. This paper addresses how Gestalt therapy's concepts of intentionality, contacting, and relationality come together as the intentionality of contacting that form the fabric of relationality. These concepts are presented from a clinical phenomenological and personal perspective of the author in New York City at the height of the pandemic. This article is an adaptation of a May 16, 2020, presentation at the online conference "Dialogues on Psychotherapy at the Time of Coronavirus," sponsored by Instituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy.

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Section: Intentionality Of Contactingmentioning

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Intentionality: The fabric of relationality.

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Gestalt and regression *

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