This book focuses on the psychoanalytic theory of object relations in order to integrate certain pertinent elements of Fairbairn's theory of object relations, to achieve the proposed revision by Perls et al. of Gestalt therapy's theory of the Self.
Introduction -- Historical Considerations -- Fifty years of Gestalt
therapy -- Theorising and knowledge in psychology -- Integration in
psychotherapy: epistemological and methodological considerations -- A
comparative analysis of the Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman theory of Self and
Fairbairns endopsychic structure in terms of Greenberg and Mitchells (1983)
four fundamental problems -- Propositions for an Object Relational Gestalt
Therapy -- Epistemological and methodological preconditions for a Gestalt
therapeutic system -- The linear-sequential vision of the Self in Perls,
Hefferline, and Goodman: a critique -- The Self and object relations: a
revision of Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman -- Gestalt psychotherapy: from
object relations to hermeneutic dialogue -- Neuroscientific perspective of
ORGT: neurodynamics of the Self in therapeutic dialogue -- ORGT and
evidence-based practice -- Case Studies -- Introduction to the Case Studies
-- Bob -- Brian -- Jade -- Appendix
Delisle, Gilles
