Gestalting Addiction
Gestalting Addiction

Author: Angela Browne Miller

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This volume explores the addiction-focused group therapy sessions led by Dr. Richard Miller, revealing the way he directs and works with collections of shifting feelings and energies. Many traditionalists have struggled with and even refuted the notion that psychotherapy can be valuable in addiction treatment. They have argued that psychotherapy is too general, that addicted people need more addiction- specific treatment. Dr. Miller has responded that psychotherapy is an immensely powerful tool which can be directed to meet the specific needs of its recipients, that it can be addiction-focused. He has also argued that psychotherapy is essential in addiction therapy and that gestalt therapy is a powerful tool in the retrieval, examination, and release of buried feelings that may create fertile ground for addictive behavior. The volume includes edited and abridged transcripts of psychotherapy sessions led by Dr. Miller, didactic descriptions of components of his methods, an interview with Dr. Miller, autobiographies, and poetry of some of the group participants, and a look into the future of psychotherapy in addiction treatment.

Gestalt Therapy for Addictive and Self-Medicating Behaviors
Gestalt Therapy for Addictive and Self-Medicating Behaviors

Author: Philip Brownell, MDiv, PsyD

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2011-12-20

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 082610696X

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This volume describes the most current gestalt approaches to treating substance abuse and other self-medicating behaviors by a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. It is based on the gestalt view of the self-medicating dynamic as one of pattern repetition and difficulty overcoming rigid patterns of response to sensory experience and life's routine demands. The book provides a practical model for helping clients with the gamut of self-medicating behaviors-substance and alcohol abuse, overeating, gambling, overworking, rage, and others-and describes a recovery program as a system created to change one's lifestyle over time through the development of disciplines that ultimately shape one's life. The volume will also be helpful to therapists in other modalities as an alternative therapy when treating self-medicating clients, as well as a spiritual alternative to the 12-step approach. Key Features: Applies current gestalt therapy approaches to the spectrum of addictive behaviors Provides practical treatment models for self-medicating behaviors Written by a prominent practitioner and scholar of gestalt therapy Offers a spiritual alternative to the 12-step approach to recovery

ASK DR. ANGELA® SERIES: Emotional and Physical Abuse in Relationships, Part Two
ASK DR. ANGELA® SERIES: Emotional and Physical Abuse in Relationships, Part Two

Author: Dr. Angela Brownemiller

Publisher: Metaterra® Publications

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1937951340

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Welcome to the ASK DR. ANGELA SERIES on abuse and violence in relationships. This is the second book in this life-changing, revealing, and inspiring series. Meet the ASK DR. ANGELA® Series of health and wellness, mind-body, spirit, books/Ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, broadcasts, workshops, programs, services, consults, and events. Here, Dr. Angela®, also known as Dr. Angela Brownemiller, talks about us, we humans, who we are, what we are, and perhaps even why we are. The big and the small questions, major and minor issues in our lives, are all important as these affect us on some level at all times. This particular book, ASK DR. ANGELA®: EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE IN RELATIONSHIPS, PART TWO: BOOK #702, is the second book in this series which focuses on this special area of interest and concern of many people out there: emotional and even physical abuse and violence in intimate partner relationships. Change your life, your ways of being in relationships, your awareness of your self, and yes, even of your emotional, physical, financial, safety.

ASK DR. ANGELA® SERIES: Emotional and Physical Abuse in Relationships, Part One
ASK DR. ANGELA® SERIES: Emotional and Physical Abuse in Relationships, Part One

Author: Dr. Angela Brownemiller

Publisher: Metaterra® Publications

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 193795143X

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Meet the ASK DR. ANGELA® Series of books/Ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, broadcasts, workshops, programs, services, consults, and events. Here, Dr. Angela®, also known as Dr. Angela Brownemiller, talks about us, we humans, who we are, what we are, and perhaps even why we are. The big and the small questions, major and minor issues in our lives, are all important as these affect us on some level at all times. This particular book, ASK DR. ANGELA®: EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE IN RELATIONSHIPS, BOOK #701, is the first in, and foundation of, this series which focuses on this special area of interest and concern of many people out there: emotional and even physical abuse and violence in intimate partner relationships. Change your life, your ways of being in relationships, your awareness of your self, and yes, even of your emotional, physical, financial, safety.

Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy

Author: Ansel L. Woldt

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-01-20

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780761927914

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Introducing the historical underpinnings & fundamental concepts of Gestalt therapy, this volume takes both a conceptual & a practical approach to the examination of classic & cutting-edge constructs.

The Use of the Creative Therapies with Chemical Dependency Issues
The Use of the Creative Therapies with Chemical Dependency Issues

Author: Stephanie L. Brooke

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0398079870

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dependence, play therapy, and filial therapy; songs, music and sobriety; dance/movement therapy as an effective clinical intervention; using expressive arts therapy with young male offenders; a case study of dance/movement therapy with the dually diagnosed in a methadone treatment program; recovering identity and stimulating growth; individual drama therapy and the alcoholic; existential drama therapy and addictive behavior; and poetry therapy in the treatment of addictions. The strategies and discussions contained in this book will be of special interest to educators, students, and therapists as well as people struggling with substance abuse." --Book Jacket.

Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction and Trauma
Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction and Trauma

Author: Patricia Quinn

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2020-12-21

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 178450730X

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This book examines the benefits and uses of art therapy in the treatment of addiction and trauma, highlighting its effectiveness at revealing underlying causes and relapse triggers, as well as treating co-occurring conditions that impair learning and recovery. This book also focuses on art therapy for trauma within specific populations, including incarcerated individuals, military personnel and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. Quinn discusses how art therapy is often carried out alongside combined approaches, such as CBT and DBT, and how it can help those with cognitive issues to learn through treatment. Furthermore, this book explores the benefits art therapy has for people with co-morbid conditions, such as dementia, emotional disorders and traumatic and acquired brain injuries. With co-authored chapters from leading researchers in art therapy, the book demonstrates how art therapy can help to uncover triggers, process trauma and find a means of self-expression whilst working towards a sustained recovery.

Queering Gestalt Therapy
Queering Gestalt Therapy

Author: Ayhan Alman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-31

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1000857409

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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. This book offers gestalt-therapy-based research and training material on gender, sex, and relationship diversity (GSRD), including chapters on a variety of GSRD issues and how therapists can become more GSRD-sensitive. The contributors position themselves across the whole spectrum of GSRD and offer their voices as an invitation to further queer the gestalt community with diverse content ranging from academic, research-oriented pieces to experiential, reflective perspectives. Featured chapters explore topics including gender-radical clients, sex and sexuality, relationship diversity, integrating GSRD and gestalt therapy, and addressing heteronormativity in gestalt therapy training. Queering Gestalt Therapy is for everyone who is interested in gender, sex, and relationship diversity, especially as they relate to gestalt therapy practice. This book will be especially useful for therapists, supervisors, coaches, and students of gestalt therapy.

Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy
Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy

Author: Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-24

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1000858790

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This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens. Each author offers a Gestalt-centered perspective on clinical issues – a situational window, which includes the therapist and avails itself of tools configured to modify the entire experiential field. Through clinical case studies and theoretical reflections, the book examines the experience of children, difficult childhood situations (such as separations, abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent social closure), the experience of dependency, couples and family therapy, the condition of the elderly and the end of life, interventions for degenerative diseases, and the trauma of loss and mourning, all of which are considered according to two cardinal points: first, the description of the relational ground experiences of patients, and second, the aesthetic relational knowing, a field perspective which allows the presence of the therapist to be modulated. Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach is essential reading for Gestalt therapists as well as all clinicians with an interest in phenomenological and aesthetic understanding of the complexity of clinical situations.