Word: gestalt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book, Langs conducted three- to four-hour interviews with 20 volunteers who had been in treatment with a total of 47 different therapists representing a range of schools from Gestalt and group to classical psychoanalysis. "Not one of these experiences," Langs writes, "seems to have been free of self-contradictory, unrealistic, out-of-control behaviors and interventions on the part of the therapist. Using rather gross measures, one might say that in general the therapists were responsible for three times as many incidents of overtly inappropriate behavior as their patients...
...result of certain chemical and physical laws in action, and even as he confidently predicts that science will, certainly within the next few decades, unravel almost all the mysteries of human behavior, he still holds onto a sense of wonder at Homo sapiens as some sort of gestalt, a sum greater than and transcending its component parts. And it is just this sense of wonder, he believes, which makes us human. There is, Konner stresses, something that goes by the name of the "human spirit," something which even science--if we are wary--cannot take away from us. He writes...
...golden age of piety of the fifties--when Salinger's Seymour Glass frolicked blithely with bananafish while his new bride chatted with her mother about what all the "goddam" analysts thought about that peculiar young man--psychoanalysis has been receding from, the public eye. After these years of gestalt therapy, est, and, yes, hot tubs (who can really believe that a neighborhood of fools sitting in a tub of scalding water is therapy?), it seems right to return to Freud. After all, it was he who maintained from the start that the best that could be hoped...
...good play should grow into a gestalt; Rimers remains an assortment of pretty parts. The metaphors of disunion in Rimers' lighting and staging, as dramatically effective as they are, serve finally to reflect the essential fragmentation of Wilson's script. The actors play their parts with conviction, but you're never really sure just what it is that they're convinced of. The audience sees a good production, but never discovers why Rimers is there in the first place...
Besides making dozens of rebirthing house-calls--"you can't pull clients into Jamaica Plain"--Hollingsworth spends his time establishing the Institute for Wholistic Living, planned as a center for natural healing that will bring together under one roof experts in "diet, yoga, meditation, massage, herbalism, aura reading, Gestalt and Polarity Therapy, the Bach flower remedies and primal scream, as well as a psychic or two." After that, Hollingsworth hopes to organize a National Guide of Alternative Health Practitioners to "try to put a dent in the American Medical Association's monopoly on healing...