From Madness to Mozart: Wide Ranging Essays on the Application of Gestalt therapy

Product Description The book presents a wide range of essays across three decades of work and writing as a gestalt therapist. The fields covered vary from current interventions in mental health services; working in couples and family therapy; child inclusive practice; domestic and family violence; substance misuse; working with trauma and war veterans; group work; working in court settings; communities; and management. With this spectrum of topics I stretch gestalt therapy theory and practice to incorporate areas such as spirituality; relativistic quantum physics; creativity; poetry; political science; supervision and ethics and our developmental journey from childhood to adulthood through to old age. This is a rich tapestry of threads interwoven into a multifaceted view of the application of gestalt therapy in the 21st century. About the Author Brian O'Neill, B.A. (Hons), MAPS is co-director of the Illawarra Gestalt Centre, past president of AAGT and on the editorial boards of the Gestalt Review and Studies in Gestalt. He has published on field theory, relationship therapy and edited the text Community. Psychotherapy and Life Focus: A Gestalt Anthology of the History, Theory and Practice of Living in Community (Ravenwood Press). He has collaborated with his wife Jenny in writing on gestalt couples therapy and the use of group in training and they have been training and supervising therapists for many years both in Australia and internationally. Brian is currently a senior fellow in mental health at the University of Wollongong and Clinical Director for Lives Lived Well, a state wide service working with substance misuse and also youth mental health across Queensland. As well as bringing gestalt therapy to the relationship field, he has worked extensively in Drug and Alcohol (was Head of the NSW State Drug Treatment Unit), and Mental Health (awarded the Australia and New Zealand Gold Medal for mental health achievement by the Governor General, Sir William Deane)