Book Announcement by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb (Italy)

Chief editor of a book anthologizing Gestalt conference proceedings.

This book gathers proceedings from a conference of more than a thousand worldwide participants. The conference theme, “The Aesthetic of Otherness in a Desensitized World,” brought together three principal concepts from the wide range of developments in Gestalt psychotherapy literature, practice and teaching: the aesthetic values in psychotherapy; interest in the other; and concern for changes in society.

Anthologized by a team of editors led by Margherita Spagnuoulo Lobb, the book includes many clinical, theoretical and research applications of the concept of Otherness and demonstrates the openness of the Gestalt psychotherapy community to other contemporary scientific approaches. Seventy-two authors from 23 countries contributed workshop narratives, panel or plenary presentations and didactic papers from the first joint AAGT (Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy) and EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy) conference, with the organizational support of the Italian association, the SIPG (Società Italiana Psicoterapia Gestalt). Professional, personal and theoretical differences are transcended in order to meet and value Otherness.

Available in free access at www.gestaltitaly.com/taormina-conference-proceedings/ where printed format can also be purchased.

Lobb, M.S., Bloom, D., Roubal, J., Zeleskov Djoric, J., Cannavò, M., La Rosa, R., Tosi, S, and Pinna, V. (Eds.). (2018). The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the boundary in a desensitized world, Proceedings. Siracusa (Italy): Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy Publishing Company.

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Psyc. Dr., licensed psychotherapist, international trainer, director of the Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy since 1979. She trained with Isadore From, Erving and Miriam Polster, and Daniel Stern. Past President of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT), Founder of the Italian Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy (SIPG), past chair of the Italian Association of all Psychotherapy Methods (FIAP) and the Italian Association of recognized GT Schools (FISIG). She leads Gestalt therapy trainers and chairs the Gestalt Therapy Book Series and the Italian Journal Quaderni di Gestalt. Her book, The Now for Next in Psychotherapy, is available in 8 languages.

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy
Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia
Siracusa, Palermo, Milano
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