An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy: Interviews with Laura Perls, Isadore From, Erving Polster, Miriam Polster and Elliott Shapiro - Tapa blanda

An indispensable reader for those interested in the history of the development of Gestalt therapy and the personalities involved, this volume contains interviews with those in the Gestalt community who had been involved in the development of Gestalt therapy since its inception in the late 1940's. Laura Perls, Isadore From, Erving Polster, Miriam Polster, and Elliot Shapiro offer their reminisces of and insights into the personalities involved in the early years of Gestalt therapy.

Joe Wysong founded The Gestalt Journal Press, the leading publisher and distributor of books, journals, and educational recordings relating to the theory and practice of Gestalt therapy. The GJP catalogue includes all the classic works by Frederick Perls, Laura Perls, Paul Goodman, Ralph Hefferline, and Jan Christiaan Smuts. The catalog also includes a wide variety of books by contemporary theoreticians and clinicians including Richard Hycner, Lynne Jacobs, Violet Oaklander, Peter Phillipson, Erving & Miriam Polster, Edward W. L. Smith, and Gary Yontef. In 1976, Wysong founded The Gestalt Journal (now the International Gestalt Journal), the first professional periodical devoted exclusively to the theory and practice of Gestalt therapy.