Finally got around to starting Jeffrey Kripal's "Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion" that's been in the pile for a while. I just finished the section on Fritz Perls and had a sudden memory of being 15 and finding his biography "In and Out the Garbage Pail" in a library and taking it out to read. The whole #GestaltTherapy thing was mind blowing to my teen self, which loved the brutal honesty. My current self things that it was unnecessarily unkind, even if effective for some.
#Esalen

"Zum ersten Mal waren psychische Störungen die häufigste Ursache für eine Hospitalisierung bei den 10- bis 24-Jährigen (19 532 Fälle), gefolgt von Verletzungen (19 243 Fälle)."

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/aktuell/neue-veroeffentlichungen.assetdetail.23772011.html

#psyche #verletzung #psych #hospitalisierung #gestalttherapie #gestaltberatung #gestalttherapy #bfs #psychischestörung #schweiz

@helenstlouis I've just been reading the Wikipedia page on #GestaltTherapy, to try and get a surface understanding. Some things which immediately seem to be reflected in #5Rhythms practice are:
- focus on present experience,
- intention to become more "creatively alive",
- re-forging relationship with aspects of ourselves that we have tried (consciously or unconsciously) to shut out.

@clarity99 Hello over there in Slovenia! Also gestalt therapist here :) Trained humanistically, but gestalt feels like home.
#gestalt #gestalttherapy