Articles by the brilliant practitioner of Gestalt therapy, child psychologist Violet Oaklander. The main theme is the techniques of working with young children and adolescents.
“When a child comes to a psychotherapist, I know that he has lost what he once had, to which he was entitled as a small child — to fully and joyfully use his feelings, body, mind and openly express his emotions. My task is to help him find and restore what he has lost.” When Violet Oaklander wrote these words, she was 79 years old. She stopped practicing as a child gestalt therapist, but continued to teach and train psychotherapists in techniques whose masterful application in family therapy brought visible relief to her clients, and she won several international awards. Among these techniques are both quite traditional for Gestalt, such as the “empty chair”, and artistic ones: drawing and clay modeling. Her articles are also devoted to them, which are collected here under one cover. One of the articles touches on the problems of working with very young children, several of them deal with the specifics of adolescent therapy.
COGITO-CENTER, 271 p.