Queering Gestalt Therapy (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthology on Gender, Sex & Relationship Diversity in Psychotherapy
Redaktion: Alman, Ayhan; Kolmannskog, Vikram; Gillespie, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first peer-reviewed book of its kind, this important volume addresses a current gap in the field of gestalt therapy: that the practice-and psychotherapy more broadly-still suffers from pervasive hetero- and cis-normativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000857405
• Artikelnr.: 67542611

Autorenporträt

Ayhan Alman is a queer psychotherapist with a Muslim, Middle Eastern context, and western upbringing. He trained as a gestalt psychotherapist at Metanoia Institute in London. Therapeutically, he is interested in how prejudice and bias impacts on the mental health of marginalised communities. John Gillespie is a gestalt therapist based in London. He is founding director of New Gestalt Voices and longstanding editor of the NGV International Journal. He works as a freelance consultant in the charity/public sectors, combining this with low cost therapy work. Vikram Kolmannskog, Dr.Philos., is a queer-of-colour professor, gestalt therapist, and writer. He trained at, and currently works as a professor at, the Norwegian Gestalt Institute. In addition, he has a private therapy and supervision practice near Oslo and offers training both nationally and internationally. He is the author of several books, including The Empty Chair: Tales from Gestalt Therapy (Routledge, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Welcome Everyone 1. Understanding Gender Radical Clients 2.
Gender-identification 3. Holding Uncertainty so that it can be Thought
About: Relational Gestalt Therapy with Gender Creative Children 4. The Drag
and Queer Years as a Means of Developing a Therapeutic Self: Bringing
Street Work in the Office 5. Experiment and Phenomenology in Treating
Gender Dysphoria 6. 'Selfish and Destructive': Where does the late-in-life
lesbian seek therapeutic support? 7. A Gay Son and His Dying Straight Dad:
An Account of Ambiguous Loss and the Embodiment of Homophobia 8. Activism
and Therapy 9. Compulsive Sexual Behaviours: Moving Beyond the Frontiers of
Addiction Thinking 10. Queering Relationships 11. LGBTI in Rural Ireland:
Secret Lives Creatively Lived 12. Gender, Sexuality and Relationship
Diversity (GSRD) Sensitive Gestalt Psychotherapy 13. 'I assumed that it was
a man she was in love with': Heteronormativity and Queer Experimentation in
Gestalt Therapy Training