The Gestalt Approach and Witness Therapy. Frederick Perls

“The Gestalt Approach and Witness Therapy” is one of the pearls of Fritz Perls’s work, which significantly influenced the development of humanistic psychology in general and Gestalt therapy in particular. Today it has become a classic of psychotherapeutic thought, which new generations of Gestalt therapists turn to again and again.

The book summarizes Perls’s many years of practical work, teaching, and scientific research and constitutes a clearly structured, logical, and consistent system. Its special value lies in the organic combination of theoretical depth and practical wisdom: two seemingly separate parts, which, although valuable in themselves, together create a completely new, holistic, and harmonious structure in which ideas and methods are supported by living experience. Thanks to this unity, the book has passed through the ages: it speaks to every generation of therapists, to every person, and today it is as relevant as at the time of its first publication.