COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Introduction -- PART I ROOTS IN PHILOSOPHY -- CHAPTER ONE The world according toGestalt therapy -- CHAPTER TWO "Let's work seriously about having fun!" Psychotherapists' systemiccountertransferences -- CHAPTER THREE Commitment -- CHAPTER FOUR Zen and the art of pinball -- CHAPTER FIVE Gestalt therapy and the culture of narcissism -- CHAPTER SIX Requiem for the earth -- CHAPTER SEVEN Cultural action for freedom: Paulo Freire as Gestaltist -- CHAPTER EIGHT Response to "Intercultural aspects of psychotherapy" -- PART II ROOTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER THEORIES -- CHAPTER NINE Gestalt and drive theory -- CHAPTER TEN A Gestalt approach to transference -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Gestalt and regression -- CHAPTER TWELVE Notes for a book on the id -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN On yelling and bashing cushions -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Gestalt therapy and Morita therapy -- PART III ROOTS IN GESTALT FOUNDATIONAL THEORY -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Gestalt in Britain: a polemic -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Awareness, the contact boundary, and the field -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Introjection revisited -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Pseudo-introjection -- CHAPTER NINETEEN The paradoxical theory of change: strategic, naïve, and Gestalt -- CHAPTER TWENTY The experience of shame -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Field theory: mirrors and reflections -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Two theories of five layers -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Body and character as a field event -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The mind and the senses: thinking in Gestalt therapy -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE I, thou, and us -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Individual therapy as group therapy -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Why shouldn't we interrupt? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.