Enlightening Gestalt: Waking Up from the Nightmare

by John Enright

Overview

John Enright is one of the "first generation" of Gestalt therapists who worked and studied with Fritz for the last ten years of his life, during the middle and later years of the development of Gestalt Therapy. All along in this study he felt there was something about Gestalt that was different from the way it was usually understood and presented. This book is about that "something different". At its very heart, Gestalt is not a cure for problems in the real world, but a path to enlightenment; to seeing that the problems are not real, but illusions projected on the world. His view is refreshing, personal, occasionally humorous, and very practical. In addition to people professionally interested in Gestalt, people interested in their own processes of awareness and experience will find this book useful.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013581876
Publisher:	The Gestalt Journal Press
Publication date:	11/12/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	192 KB

About the Author

John Enright received his B.A. degree from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. A “bookworm” in Yakima High School (Washington State), he credits his English teacher with stimulating him to go to Yale, and a psychologist there for stimulating his interest in psychology.
After teaching in Japan and serving on the staffs of the Territorial Hospital in Hawaii and the U.C.L.A. school of medicine, John met Fritz Perls, and knew immediately he was a Gestalt therapist. He worked with Fritz off and on for the next nine years, led Gestalt groups around the country and published some early articles on Gestalt.
Early in his Gestalt career he began to decrease the emphasis on individual “hot seat” work favored by Fritz and concentrate on developing exercises that could be done alone or in groups and facilitate self-learning without dependence on a “leader.” He developed these into a free seminar, the “GNP,” and later into the ARC (Awareness, Responsibility, Communication) seminar, which he taught around the country.