On Intimate Ground: A Gestalt Approach to Working with Couples - Stephanie Backman - Hardcover - 1st ed

Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding forms of psychotherapy because of the therapist's need to integrate psychodynamic insights with an understanding of systems dynamics. The contributors to On Intimate Ground share the belief that a phenomenological approach incorporating the insights of Gestalt psychotherapy leads to this integration and, with it, a dramatic increase in therapeutic power and flexibility. In 15 engaging chapters, they apply this approach to issues of intimacy, self-construction, power and abuse, shame, resistance, and growth -- and to such diverse populations as abuse survivors and their partners, remarried couples, gay and lesbian couples, and couples with character disorders.Wheeler, Gordon is the author of 'On Intimate Ground: A Gestalt Approach to Working with Couples - Stephanie Backman - Hardcover - 1st ed' with ISBN 9780787900397 and ISBN 0787900397.