TY - BOOK AU - Delisle,Gilles TI - Object relations in gestalt therapy SN - 9781782410546 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Karnac Books Ltd KW - Gestalt therapy KW - Attachment behavior KW - Self-perception KW - Gestalt Therapy KW - Object Attachment KW - Self Concept N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index; COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS; CHAPTER ONE Fifty years of Gestalt therapy; CHAPTER TWO Theorising and knowledge in psychology; CHAPTER THREE Integration in psychotherapy: epistemological and methodological considerations; CHAPTER FOUR A comparative analysis of the Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman theory of Self and Fairbairn's endopsychic structure in terms of Greenberg and Mitchell's (1983) four fundamental problems; PART II PROPOSITIONS FOR AN OBJECT RELATIONAL GESTALT THERAPY; CHAPTER FIVE Epistemological and methodological preconditions for a Gestalt therapeutic systemCHAPTER SIX The linear-sequential vision of the Selfin Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman: a critique; CHAPTER SEVEN The Self and object relations: a revision of Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman; CHAPTER EIGHT Gestalt psychotherapy: from object relations to hermeneutic dialogue; CHAPTER NINE Neuroscientific perspective of ORGT: neurodynamics of the Self in therapeutic dialogue; CHAPTER TEN ORGT and evidence-based practice; PART III CASE STUDIES; INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDIES; CHAPTER ELEVEN Bob; CHAPTER TWELVE BrianCHAPTER THIRTEEN Jade; Appendix; REFERENCES; INDEX N2 - The author of Personality Disorders: a Gestalt Therapy Perspective proposes a revision of Perls, Hefferline and Goodman's Theory of the Self in a way that brings it closer to contemporary issues in in the area of Personality Disorders. Understanding splitting and projective identification that chronically lead to experiential impasses, is an essential feature of the psychotherapy of the more severe personality disorders. In order to do so within the Gestalt framework, the author integrates certain developmental concepts fromobject relations theory, especially those put forth by W.R.D. Fairbair UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?custid=ns123844&authtype=ip,shib&direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=521142 ER -