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We are England: expanding from ego to nos

Bristol Therapist BlogJuly 3, 20210Comments

A memory comes into my awareness: I am 15 back in my hometown, going to the cinema with some friends. As I'm crossing the road, a car with an England flag in the windscreen pulls up. I throw my arms wide and yell "England" at the driver, who beeps his horn several times in celebration. That was…

Weeds or flowers? How neurosis is all about context

Bristol Therapist BlogMay 15, 20184Comments

One of the core concepts in gestalt psychotherapy is contact. Specifically, gestalt therapists are interested in what happens at the contact boundary; itself an emergent phenomenon that arises wherever self meets other. In gestalt's founding text, Perls Hefferline & Goodman's Gestalt Therapy (PHG), the self is defined as "the system of contacts at a given time".…