Past Editions

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Past Editions

Vol 1. No 1. November 2004
Editorial – Setting the Scene. Alan Meara

Introducing the Writers. Anne Maclean and Leanne O’Shea

The Personal is the Political: As Within –So Without. Gabriel Phillips

Ah Yes, the Pleasure of Complexity. Stephen Parkinson

Psychotherapy and Terrorism. Yaro Starak

More than the Sum of the Parts. Anne Maclean

Death and the Maiden. Lee Trusttum

PTSD and Gestalt Therapy- A Literature Review. Sarah Hardie

The Editorial Board


Vol 1. No 2. May 2005

Editorial Anne Maclean

Preliminary Thoughts on the Interaction Between Language and Experience. Stuart Stawman

Menstruality: The Great Feminine Gestalt. Jane Severn

The Field Wherein Life itself Takes Form. Anne Maclean

The Role of Music in Integrating a Gestalt Group Experience. Stephen Parkinson

Exploring the Field of the Emerging Gestalt Therapist. Leanne O’Shea

Looking in the Mirror and Finding your Feet: Peer Supervision as a Professional Development. Madeleine Fogarty.

Student Section:
Embracing my Achilles’ Heel. Megan Turnbull


Vol 2. No 1. November 2005

Editorial Leanne O’Shea

Facilitating Change in Open Systems. Alan Meara

The Art of Improvisation. Trevor Bentley

Pathways to Adolescence and Family Resilience- Calls for a Relational/Field Perspective. Mike Reed

Student Section:

Gestalt Family Grief Therapy Vivien Young

2006 GANZ Conference


Vol 2. No 2. May 2006
Editorial Nickei Falconer

Gestalt with Groups- A Developmental Perspective. Seán Gaffney

Being with Another: The Development and Maintenance of Intimacy. Joseph Melnick and Sonia March Nevis

Shame and Boundary Regulation ion Straight and Gay Men’s Close Friendships. Richie Robertson

Reflection Following a Richard Moss Seminar. Liz Todhunter

A Gestalt Perspective on Writing and Editing. Anne Maclean

Student Section:
Reflections of Self and Field in Gestalt and Elsewhere. Ron Dowd

GANZ Conference 2006: Update on the Community Experiment


Vol 3. No 1. November 2006
Editorial. Richie Robertson

Update on the Journal from the Co-Editors. Richie Robertson and Nickei Falconer

Introducing the Editorial Board

What Is, Is: Some Comments on Gestalt Phenomenology. Yaro Starak

Paraphrasing Yalom: It is the Relationship that Helps. John Batros

Shame: One of Many Windows. Gestalt Perspectives on the Nature of Shame. Brenda Levien.

Understanding and Working with Male Survivors of Sexual Assault: A Gestalt Approach. Noel Haarburger.


Vol 3. No 2. May 2007
Editorial. Nickei Falconer

Musings of a Master: Erv Polster in interview with Lynne Jacobs

Eating the Field: Human Relationships with Nature. Andrew Rush

The Hunter and the Hunted: The Narcissistic Therapist and the Masochistic Therapist. Madeleine Fogarty.

The Concept of Hope in Gestalt Therapy: It’s Usefulness for Ameliorating Vicarious Traumatisation. Margaret Pack


Vol 4. No 1. November 2007

Editorial: Richie Robertson

Update on New Categories

Peer Reviewers

Besides the Hot Seat. Gestalt in Organisations: Perspectives and Applications. Seán Gaffney

Organisational Storytelling. Trevor Bentley

Just Flown in from Mars… A Second Language in the Therapy Room. Liddy de Leuw

Dramatic Gestalt Dream Work. Sylvia Flemming Crocker


Vol 4. No 2. May 2008
Editorial: Richie Robertson & Nickei Falconer

Tribute to Michael White: Fred Rossi

Irvin Yalom interview: Paul Gibney

Relational Gestalt: Four Waves: Stuart Stawman
The Value of Relatedness in Existential Psychotherapy and Phenomenological Enquiry: Ernesto Spinelli

Book Review: Leanne O’ Shea reviews Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational world by Ernesto Spinelli.


Vol 5. No 1. November 2008
Editorial : Nickei Falconer

To Be As a Whole Person Is to Be with The Whole Person: Peter Bean

Therapist as Researchers: Using Hermeneutic Methodology in a study of Spoken Language in the Therapeutic Relationship: Sally Brook & Linsey Howie

Steps toward A Practice of Gestalt with Groups: A mini-manual for Beginners: Sean Gaffney

Book Reviews:

Staring the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death by Irvin Yalom; Reviewed by John Batros.

The Brain that Changes itself by Norman Doidge. Reviewed by Geoff Buckett


Vol 5. No 2. May 2009 Editorial Richie Robertson

Interview with Frank Staemmler
Nickei Falconer
Neurophysiology of Therapeutic Alliance
Trisha Stratford, Sara Lal, Alan Meara

The Greening of Psychotherapy: Rethinking our Professional Practice in the Age of Climate Change
Gayle Russell

Supervision as a Liminal Space: Towards a Dialogic Relationship
Margaret Pack

Book Reviews:

Aggression, Time and Understanding, by Frank M. Staemmler
Reviewed by Mike Reed

Gestalt Therapy: Therapy of the Situation by George Wollants
Reviewed by Greer White

Psychiatric Drugs Explained by David Healy
Reviewed by Iain S. McGregor


Vol 6. No 1. November 2009

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