Dimensions, Landscapes, and Clinical Aspects of Personality

"This book doesn’t just deserve to be in the libraries of every psychotherapist, especially Gestalt therapists; it should be the study book and “bedside” reference for anyone who wants to improve their clinical practice.

With two clearly differentiated parts, the first, with the collaboration of several authors, provides the ground on which to understand and assimilate the second, more practical part in which Gestalt therapists Michela Gecele and Gianni Francesetti describe how to think and intervene in the psychotherapeutic process taking into account not only our basic field-based theory but also the personality disorders that affect Western society today. Practical examples help to better understand their proposals."

Carmen Vázquez Bandin, clinical psychologist and Gestalt therapist.

"This book impressively demonstrates how diagnosis in psychotherapy can align with the Greek origin of the word—knowing thoroughly. However, it does so without objectifying or dehumanizing clients, adopting a radically different perspective that regards both clients and therapists as parts of the situation they cocreate together. In this way, they can rigorously get to know each other—as well as the field conditions that shape who they become. Thus, exhaustive knowing and respect for the clients’ dignity can go hand in hand."

Frank-M. Staemmler, Ph.D., psychologist and Gestalt therapist.