Teaching a Paranoid to Flirt: The Poetics of Gestalt Therapy - Softcover

Miller, Michael Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939266709 ISBN 13: 9780939266708

Publisher: Gestalt Journal Press, 2011

Synopsis

From the title chapter, "Teaching a Paranoid to Flirt" to "The Aesthetics of Commitment: What Gestalt Therapists Can Learn from Cézanne and Miles Davis," author Michael Vincent Miller explores the facets of Gestalt therapy - the aesthetic, the theoretical, and the clinical. In his forty-year career as a practicing Gestalt therapist, a teacher of Gestalt therapy, his essays, reviews and commentaries on Gestalt therapy in particular and psychology in general have appeared in publications throughout the world including The New York Times Review of Books and The Boston Globe. His book, Intimate Terrorism, appeared in eight languages. This 400 page volume is divided into three sections: "Themes: Clinical and Philosophical," "Commentary," and "Founders and Shapers: Introductions and Elegies."

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About the Author

Michael Vincent Miller, Ph.D. has practiced and taught Gestalt therapy in Boston and New York since 1972. He was on the faculty of Stanford University for four years and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for six years. He was the cofounder and, for many years, co-director of the Boston Gestalt Institute. He currently teaches Gestalt therapy in many countries. He was on the editorial board of The Gestalt Journal for more than twenty years, has published numerous articles and chapters on Gestalt therapy and related matters, as well as written the introductions to new editions of the works of Perls, Goodman, and others. He has also been a frequent book reviewer for The New York Times Book Review. His book, Intimate Terrorism, has appeared in eight languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gestalt Journal Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939266709
• ISBN 13: 9780939266708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412