Course curriculum

    1. Video lecture on Overview of Gestalt - 80 minute

    1. Levant, V. (1997). Knowledge, know-how and being in psychotherapy. Cognica, 1-2.

    2. Assessment no 1-1

    3. Assessment no 1-2

    4. Assessment no 1-3

    5. Assessment no 1-5

    6. Assessment no 1-4

    1. Berger, G. (1999). Why we call it Gestalt therapy. The Gestalt Journal, 22(1), 21-35.

    2. Naranjo, C. (1978). I and thou, here and now Contributions of Gestalt therapy. In D. Stephenson, Gestalt therapy primer (pp. 34-53). Jason Aronson.

    3. Friedman, N. (1994). PHG A summary and explication. The Gestalt Journal, 24(1), 89-131.

    4. Muller, B. (1997). The total therapeutic context - The craft of Gestalt therapy Theory and practice.

    5. Clarkson, P. (1991). Gestalt therapy is changing- Part 1 - From the past to the present. The British Gestalt Journal, 1, 87-93.

    6. Clarkson, P., & Mackewn, J. (1993). The life of Fritz Perls. In Fritz Perls (pp. 1–31). Sage Publications.

    7. Perls, F. (1973). Foundations. In The Gestalt approach and eyewitness to therapy (pp. 2–16). Bantam Books.

    8. Perls, F. (1975). Gestalt therapy and human potentialities. In J. O. Stevens (Ed.), Gestalt is (pp. 1–7). Real People Press.

    9. Passons, W. R. (1975). Theoretical components of Gestalt therapy. In Gestalt approaches in counseling (pp. 11–25). Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

    10. Polster, E. (2010). From the radical center- The heart of Gestalt therapy. Gestalt Review, 14(1), 8-23.

    11. Clarkson, P. (1997). The beginning of Gestalt. The Gestalt Journal, 20(2), 23-41.

    12. Perls, L. (1992). Concepts and misconceptions of Gestalt therapy . Journal of Humanistic Psychology , 32(3), 5056.

    13. Resnick, R. W. (2020). Gestalt therapy and homeorhesis Evolution with movement, discrimination, and grace. Gestalt Review, 24(2), 200-221.

    14. Smith, E. W. L. (1991). Gestalt, a Dionysian path. The Gestalt Journal, 24(2), 61-69.

    15. Resnick, R. (1995). Gestalt therapy Principles, prisms and perspectives. The British Gestalt Journal, 4(1), 313.

    16. Yontef, G. M. (1993)(summary of article) Gestalt therapy An introduction. In Awareness, dialogue and process Essays on Gestalt therapy (pp. 1-5). The Gestalt Journal Press.

    17. Zinker, J. C. (1987). Gestalt values Maturing of Gestalt therapy. Opening address at The Gestalt Journals 8th Annual Conference. The Gestalt Journal, 10(1), 69-89.

    18. Zahm, S. G., & Gold, E. K. (2002). Gestalt therapy. In Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy (Vol. 1, pp. 863872). Academic Press.

    19. Passons, W. R. (1975). Gestalt approaches in counseling. In Gestalt approaches in counseling. (pp. 27–43). Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

    20. Clarkson, P., & Mackewn, J. (1993). Major contributions to theory. In Fritz Perls (pp. 32–82). Sage Publications.

    21. Clarkson, P., & Mackewn, J. (1993). Major contributions to practice. In Fritz Perls (pp. 83–125). Sage Publications.

    22. Van De Riet, V., Korb, M. P., & Gorrell, J. J. (1980). Philosophical assumptions of Gestalt therapy. In Gestalt therapy- An introduction (pp. 19-34). Permagon Press.

    1. Passons, W. R. (1975). Gestalt approaches in counseling. In Gestalt approaches in counseling. (pp. 2743). Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

    2. Levant, V. (1997). Knowledge, know-how and being in psychotherapy. Cognica, 1-2.

    3. Clarkson, P., & Mackewn, J. (1993). Major contributions to practice. In Fritz Perls (pp. 83125). Sage Publications.

    4. Clarkson, P. (1991). Gestalt therapy is changing Part 1 - From the past to the present. The British Gestalt Journal, 1, 87-93.

    5. Passons, W. R. (1975). Theoretical components of Gestalt therapy. In Gestalt approaches in counseling (pp. 1125). Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

    6. Clarkson, P., & Mackewn, J. (1993). Major contributions to theory. In Fritz Perls (pp. 3282). Sage Publications.

    7. Perls, F. (1973). Foundations. In The Gestalt approach and eyewitness to therapy (pp. 216). Bantam Books.

    8. Perls, L. (1992). Concepts and misconceptions of Gestalt therapy . Journal of Humanistic Psychology , 32(3), 5056.

    9. Perls, F. (1975). Gestalt therapy and human potentialities. In J. O. Stevens (Ed.), Gestalt is (pp. 17). Real People Press.

    10. Zahm, S. G., & Gold, E. K. (2002). Gestalt therapy. In Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy (Vol. 1, pp. 863872). Academic Press.

    11. Resnick, R. (1995). Gestalt therapy Principles, prisms and perspectives. The British Gestalt Journal, 4(1), 313.

    12. Clarkson, P., & Mackewn, J. (1993). The life of Fritz Perls. In Fritz Perls (pp. 131). Sage Publications.

    13. Yontef, G. M. (1993)(summary of article) Gestalt therapy An introduction. In Awareness, dialogue and process Essays on Gestalt therapy (pp. 1-5). The Gestalt Journal Press.

    1. Pacific Gestalt Institute. PGI expanded reading list. httpwww.gestalttherapy.orgwp-contentuploads201409expanded-reading-list.pdf.

    2. Stevenson, H. (2013). Chapter one -Gestalt principles.

    3. Latner, J. (1992). Gestalt therapy perspectives and applications. Gardner Press NY. Chapter 1 The theory of gestalt therapy, pp13-56.

About the presenter

Steve Vinay Gunther

Dr Steve Vinay Gunther

Steve Vinay Gunther has studied Gestalt therapy since 1985 and founded Gestalt institutes in Australia, South Korea, and China. Since 2000, he has been an international Gestalt trainer, teaching in Asia, Egypt, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia, and the USA.

In addition to Gestalt therapy, Steve is trained in family therapy, narrative therapy, somatic therapy, career coaching, and family constellations. He has practiced and studied meditation since 1973 and previously served as a professor of Spiritual Psychology at the Ryokan Institute in Los Angeles.

Steve pioneered relational psychology with his concept, The Unvirtues, and designed the Relational Parenting system. He is the father of five children and grandfather to four boys.