This book tracks a particular understanding of self, philosophically, from research evidence and in its implications for psychotherapy. At each step, the author includes first the theory he is working from, then the clinical implications of the theory, followed by some links to the philosophical outlook inherent in the theory, and finally a more extended case example.

Peter Philippson, M.Sc. (Gestalt Psychotherapy) is a UKCP Registered Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer, a Teaching and Supervising Member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute UK, a founder member of Manchester Gestalt Centre, Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, senior trainer for GITA (Slovenia) and a guest trainer for many training programmes internationally. He is the author of ‘Self in Relation’, co-author of ‘Contact and Relationship in a Field Perspective’, chapter respondent in ‘Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory and Practice’, ed. A. Woldt & S. Toman, editor of ‘The Nature of Pain’ and, (with John Harris), co-author of ‘Gestalt: Working with Groups’, co-editor of ‘Topics in Gestalt Therapy’, and author of many papers on Gestalt therapy in British, French, American, Australian, Canadian and Spanish Gestalt Journals. He is on the Editorial Board of Studies in Gestalt Therapy, an Editorial Advisor of the British Gestalt Journal, and is currently President of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy. Peter is a teacher and student of Traditional Aikido.