Gestalt therapy is postmodern. Beyond individualism

The book of the famous psychotherapist, director of the Cleveland Institute of Goretaltherapy Gordon Wheeler is devoted to the philosophical and ideological foundations of psychotherapy, challenging the Western tradition of individualism. The author justifies the intersbject, interpersonal nature of the person and his experience, relying on both modern philosophy, connecting Gestaltterepia with social structuralism and deconstruction and on its therapeutic experience, which he abundantly uses for illustrations. From this position in the book, many practical issues relating to psychological problems, as well as health, ethics, politicians and spirituality are considered in detail. Psychologists, psychotherapists