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From 1976 to 1982 Norberg was a member of the faculty of The New Institute for Gestalt Therapy, New York. She has maintained a private practice in Gestalt Pastoral Care since 1970 and was the founder and since 1982 has been director of a two-year basic training program for clergy, therapists and other professionals in Gestalt Pastoral Care.
Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist–client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation.
The article goes on and on about the theory behind gestalt therapy, but after reading the whole article, I am still at a loss for what actually happens in gestalt therapy. The only actual techniques that the article describes is the empty chair technique. What else happens in a gestalt therapy session? —a thing 19:57, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy (GTP) is a method of psychotherapy based strictly on Gestalt psychology.Its origins go back to the 1920s when Gestalt psychology founder Max Wertheimer, Kurt Lewin and their colleagues and students started to apply the holistic and systems theoretical Gestalt psychology concepts in the field of psychopathology and clinical psychology.
Joseph Zinker is the author of several books like Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy, [12] In Search of Good Form, Motivation and the Crisis of Dying, Sketches...He has also published numerous articles in journals (about psychotherapy, arts, the phenomenology of love...) and has served on the editorial board of different journals.
Once reaching graduate school, she became an advocate for Gestalt therapy; a therapy aimed towards self-awareness. Polster was the co-founder of The Gestalt Training Centre. Polster was the co-author of two books on Gestalt therapy theory (Gestalt Therapy Integrated and From the Radical Centre), and the sole author of Eve’s Daughters.
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He founded the Gestalt Training Center in San Diego and has written seven books on Gestalt psychology. His first wife was psychologist Miriam Polster, and they married in 1949 and moved to La Jolla in 1973. Miram died in 2001, and he married his second wife Rose Lee in 2006.