Well-Lived Life

<p>Sylvia Crocker's <em>A Well-Lived Life</em> is a work of a daring and creative thinker offering a bold reconceptualization of Gestalt therapy that extends all the way from its philosophical foundation to the nuances of its clinical application. In prose that is clear as a bell Crocker fully exposes the depth and power of Gestalt therapy's field theoretical model deftly moving from individual to larger systems work and back again and capturing the full range of human psychological phenomena as she goes.</p><p>From the acquisition and maintenance of simple behavioral habits to the construction of personal narrative and myth Crocker's Gestalt therapy model is equally at home and applicable. Her vision of Gestalt therapy is at the same time startingly unique and comfortably familiar. She is firmly rooted in Gestalt Therapy's 'phenomenological behaviorism but at the same time offers us a model for assessing and working with self functions which is remarkably creative and represents an important new contribution to the field.</p><p>And throughout the text interpolated between her provocative theoretical formulations we encounter Crocker the clinician - moving straight ahead getting right at the issue making sense and all the while concretely instructive regarding the nature of the work. This is a book that will make a difference challenging the way we think about the practice the craft of psychotherapy. </p>