Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy is an invitation to explore social and political issues within the psychotherapeutic framework. It describes and analyses the author’s journey of becoming a gestalt therapist in Poland and England through analyses of masculinity, sexuality, relationality, and culture. This book addresses the collective gestalts exploring the psychotherapeutic taboos of sexual transference, same-sex attraction, use or lack of touch, gender equality, and inter-cultural conflicts.
Key Features
- Explores prejudices embedded in cultures and therapeutic work.
- Provides a theoretical challenge to current practices within gestalt therapy.
- Advocates for a collective understanding of embodied sensations in therapy.
- Utilises autoethnographic research methodology to intertwine personal experiences with broader contexts.
Additional Information
Each chapter is an exploration of prejudices embedded in our cultures and therapeutic work, and provides a theoretical challenge to current practices within gestalt therapy and beyond. The author advocates for a more collective understanding of embodied sensations emerging in the therapeutic context as collective gestalts. It is essential reading for gestalt therapists, as well as readers interested in gestalt approaches.
