Publication Announcement by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb (Italy)
This collection co-edited by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb and Pietro A. Cavaleri explores new ways of treating difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a relational, phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens. Each author in this Routledge volume offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on clinical issues, a situational window which avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field.
Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-Oriented Approach examines the experience of difficult childhood situations, of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of patients, and second, the aesthetic relational knowing, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated.
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Psy.D. is a Gestalt psychotherapist, director of Istituto di Gestalt Human Communication Center, Italy (www.gestaltitaly.com); Scientific Director of International Training Programs in “Gestalt Therapy Psychopathology and Development”; and “Gestalt Therapy Supervisors.” She is Editor of Gestalt Therapy Journal and the Gestalt Therapy Book Series (Routledge). She has received the Lifelong Achievement Award from AAGT (2018).
Pietro A. Cavaleri, Ph.D., Psy.D. is a Gestalt psychotherapist and a Trainer at Istituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy. He has taught at the University of Palermo, at LUMSA University and at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences “Auxilium.” He has been psychologist-in-chief at the Public Health Service and counselor for social policies of Caltanissetta.
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Psy.D.
Siracusa, Italy
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