{"product_id":"healing-perception-an-application-of-the-philosophy-of-merleau-ponty-to-the-theoretical-structures-of-dialogic-psychotherapy-paperback","title":"Healing Perception: An Application of the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty to the Theoretical Structures of Dialogic Psychotherapy. - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eDesmond J. Kennedy Phd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is an attempt to root Gestalt therapy - its theory and practice, in the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961). It is not an attempt to fix this wonderfully versatile therapy in concrete or to subtract anything of its existential openness from it, but to give it a foundation and a philosophical framework from which it can operate and develop. Its point of departure is the wonderful, even awesome, gratuity of one's being: 'I am given to myself'.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDes Kennedy is a Gestalt Therapist in private practice in the Wirral. He has a particular interest in the influence of post-modern philosophy and neuro-science on Gestalt Therapy. He brings to his study of Gestalt Therapy the foundational insights of Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908-1961, whose writings have since become the main focus of studies relating phenomenology and psychotherapy. In 2003 he was awarded a PhD for his thesis on the Application of the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty to Gestalt therapy theory. Over the years he has published several articles on this subject in the British Gestalt Journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432616542386,"sku":"9781480085022","price":26.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7a6c56210b998d6441fbca8cb430788b.webp?v=1778607166","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/healing-perception-an-application-of-the-philosophy-of-merleau-ponty-to-the-theoretical-structures-of-dialogic-psychotherapy-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}