Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy
Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy is an invitation to explore social and political issues within the…
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Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy
Exploring Masculinity, Sexuality, and Culture in Gestalt Therapy is an invitation to explore social and political issues within the psychotherapeutic framework. 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. 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.
The author advocates for a more collective understanding of embodied sensations emerging in the therapeutic context as collective gestalts.Through the use of