Word: gestalt
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...feeling good is a religion, its cathedral is Esalen. The nerve center of the counterculture, the cradle of Gestalt therapy, the inspiration for a thousand adult-education courses (with the emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
...they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary" of random black-and-white footage of Sicily, reaching a comic apogee by intoning about Gestalt psychology as the film shows pigs being slaughtered...
...then put its weight behind the political aspirations of the Black majority, or will it remain the discreet quisling of the Boer regime?" The Crimson, by substituting "Bok" for "Boer," is replacing my focus on a hegemonic group and putting attention on an individual. This is exactly the historical gestalt my letter opposes. I do not equate Harvard University with the "Bok regime" (whatever that is). The administration is not Harvard University. Students, staff and alumni are together responsible for Harvard's collaboration with apartheid. Together we share the responsibility to divest. Richard H. Drayton...
...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...
...lover of one of his patients, then lied about it, announcing that the patient was projecting his unresolved Oedipal fantasies upon an innocent therapist. Two female therapists behaved seductively to female patients, and one of them conducted a session while lying in bed in her nightgown. During a Gestalt group-therapy session, a deeply troubled man was goaded into attempting intercourse with a woman, then ordered to stop at the last minute. One analyst dismissed a woman from treatment for refusing to marry the father of her unborn child; another ordered a male patient to refrain from...