Gestalt Therapy (book)

Gestalt Therapy
First edition
AuthorFrederick Perls, Ralph Hefferline, Paul Goodman
SubjectPsychotherapy
Published1951 (Julian Press)
Pages466 pp.

Gestalt Therapy is a 1951 book that outlines an extension to psychotherapy, known as gestalt therapy, written by Fritz Perls, Ralph Hefferline, and Paul Goodman. Presented in two parts, the first introduces psychotherapeutic self-help exercises, and the second presents a theory of personality development and growth.

The book is known in the gestalt community as "PHG".[1]

English literature professor George Levine thought of the book as the only emotionally engaging textbook he knew.[2]

Paul Goodman during the late 1940s
  1. ^ House, Richard; Kalisch, David; Proctor, Gillian (2016). "Editorial". Self & Society. 44 (4): 307–309. doi:10.1080/03060497.2016.1247590. ISSN 0306-0497 – via Taylor & Francis.
  2. ^ Levine 1973, p. 5.