On Gestalt Therapy Author:Bob Harman From the Preface by Joe Wysong, Publisher of The Gestalt Journal Press — "Bob Harman's first contributions to professional journals, 'Goals of Gestalt Therapy' and 'Techniques of Gestalt Therapy' were published in PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY in 1974. This volume includes all Harman's articles that appeared the pages of THE GESTALT JOURNAL over its tw... more »enty-five-year history. The final contribution, 'Gestalt Therapy in the 21st Century,' was his invited opening talk at a special gathering of Gestalt therapists honoring Erving Poster's and Miriam Polster's lifelong commitment to the development and growth of Gestalt therapy.
Harman was an appropriate choice to open the conference honoring the Polsters. His professional approach is similar to theirs with a focus that is always more on the clinical applications of Gestalt therapy rather than on its theoretical formulations. While not ignoring the theory, the center of Bob's attention is always on the client rather than on the canon. That focus is reflected in these articles - stories (some prefer "case studies") of clients appear in almost all."
Robert Harman recently retired as Director of the Counseling and Testing Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando. A Diplomate in Counseling Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, he was the founder of The Gestalt Institute of Central Florida and ran an active training program there for many years.« less