Teaching a Paranoid to Flirt: The Poetics of Gestalt Therapy

From the title chapter, “Teaching a Paranoid to Flirt” to “The Aesthetics of Commitment: What Gestalt Therapists Can Learn from Cézanne and Miles Davis,” author Michael Vincent Miller explores the facets of Gestalt therapy — the aesthetic, the theoretical, and the clinical. In his forty-year career as a practicing Gestalt therapist, a teacher of Gestalt therapy, his essays, reviews and commentaries on Gestalt therapy in particular and psychology in general have appeared in publications throughout the world including The New York Times Review of Books and The Boston Globe. His book, Intimate Terrorism, appeared in eight languages. This 400 page volume is divided into three sections: “Themes: Clinical and Philosophical,” “Commentary,” and “Founders and Shapers: Introductions and Elegies.”