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Recommended Readings
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For those interested in our approach to Psychotherapy, here are some  titles that will serve as a fundamental introduction:

Chopra, M.D., Deepak,  Quantum Healing

Lowen, Alexander,  The Language of the Body, Collier Books, 1958

Masterson, J.F.,    The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality                                Disorders of Our Age, The Free Press, New York, 1988

Miller, Alice,  The Drama of the Gifted Child, Basic Books, 1994
                       For Your Own Good, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, NY, 1983

Kaufman, Gershen,  Shame, the Power of Caring,                                                                                          Schenkman books, Inc., Rochester,  Vermont, 1980

Zornado, Joseph, Inventing the Child, Garland Publishing, NY, 2001

Alpert, Stuart W., What To Do Until Enlightenment




" Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in
uglier ways."   
               - S. Freud -











For professionals who are either interested in training or supervision at the Connecticut Center, here are some recommended readings: 

Alpert, Stuart W., What To Do Until Enlightenment

Chopra, M.D., Deepak,   Quantum Healing

Fagan, Joan/Shepard, Irma, Gestalt Therapy Now

Johnson, Stephen, Character Styles, W.W. Norton & Co., 1994
                                Characterological Transformation, W .W. Norton Co. 
                                New York,     
                                Humanizing the Narcissistic Style, W.W. Norton & Co., NY,
                                The Symbiotic Character, W.W. Norton & Co., New NY, 1991

Lee, Robert, Wheeler, Gordon, The Voice of Shame, Silence, and the Connection in                                                      Psychotherapy, San Francisco, CA, 1996

Lopez, Alan, Back to Zero



Lowen, Alexander,
  • The Language of the Body, Collier Books, 1958                              
  • The Betrayal of the Body, Collier Books, NY, 1967                              
  • Depression in the Body, Coward, McCann and Geoghegan,  NY 1972                                  
  • Bio-Energetics, Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, NY 1975                               
  • Love, Sex, and Your Heart, MacMillian Publishing Company,                           New York,1988                                
  • Pleasure, Cancer Books Inc., New York, 1984                               
  • Narcissism Denial of the True Self, Collier Books, NY, 1985

Masterson, J.F.,
  • Treatment of the Borderline Disorders: An Integrated                               Developmental  Approach, Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1981                         
  • The Search for the Real Self; Unmasking the Personality Disorders of  our Age, The Free Press, New York, 1988                        
  • The Personality Disorders, Zeig, Tucker & Co., Phoenix, 2000

Miller, Alice,
  • The Drama of the Gifted Child, Basic Books, 1994
  • For Your Own Good, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, NY, 1983

Moore, Thomas, Care of the Soul, Harper Co., 1991

Pelletier, K., Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, 1977

Perls, Fredrick, Hefferline, Ralph F., Goodman, Paul, Gestalt Therapy, Dell Publishing,                                                                                           NewYork, 1951

Perls Frederick,
  • Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, The Center for Gestalt Development,              Highland, NY,1988
  • Gestalt Approach, Science and Behavior Books

Polster, Irving, A Population of Selves, A Therapeutic Exploration of Personal                            Divinity,  Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1995

Polster, Irving and Miriam, Gestalt Therapy Intergrated, Brunner & Mazel,                                                  NewYork, 1973

Reich, Wilhelm, Character Analysis

Rogers,III, George W.,  Bonding, Terror & Psychotherapy, - A Primer

Steven, John, Gestalt Is, Real People Press, Awareness, Real People Press

Wheeler & Backman, On Intimate Ground ( A Gestalt Approach to Working With                                                          Couples), Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994

Zinker, Joseph, In Search of Good Form, A Gestalt Institute                                                                         of  Cleveland Publication,  1994

James A. Chu,  Rebuilding shattered lives, The responsible treatment  of                          complex post-traumatic and dissociative disorders, 1998

Robert C. Scaer, The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease,

Marlene Steinberg, The Stranger In The Mirror, (Paperback)

Bessel A. van der Kolk,  Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience                                         on Mind, Body, and Society, (Hardcover)

Allan N. Schore, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self/Affect Regulation                             and the Repair of the Self (two-volume set) (Hardcover)

Peter A. Levine,  Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to                                Transform OverwhelmingExperiences, (Paperback)

Laurie Anne Pearlman, Trauma and the Therapist,

Constance Dalenberg,  Countertransference and the Treatment of Trauma,

BellaRuth Naparstek, Invisible Heroes, Survivors of Trauma and how They heal,

Tian Dayton, Trauma and Addiction,

L. Alan Sroufe et.al., The Development of the Person,

Lisa M. Najavits, Seeking Safety, Atreament Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse,

Laurie Anne Pearlman, Transforming the Pain, Workbook on vicarious Traumatization,

John Conger, The Body in Recovery,

Laurie Anne Pearlman, Trauma and the Therapist,

Constance Dalenberg,  Countertransference and the Treatment of Trauma,

BellaRuth Naparstek, Invisible Heroes, Survivors of Trauma and how They heal,

Tian Dayton, Trauma and Addiction,

L. Alan Sroufe et.al., The Development of the Person,

Lisa M. Najavits, Seeking Safety, A Treament Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse,

Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers & The Body Remembers, Casebook,

Kepner, James, Body Process: Working With the Body in Psychotherapy,                                                   Jossey-Bass, 1993                                    

Kaufman, Gershen, Shame, the Power of Caring, Schenkman books, Inc.                                        Rochester, Vermont, 1980

Keleman, Stanley,
  • Bonding, A Somatic-Emotional Approach to Transference,   Center Press,  Berkley, 1986                              
  • Sexuality, Self, and Survival, Ledester Press, San Francisco, CA, 1977                            
  • Somatic Reality, Center Press, 1979

Kernberg, Otto, Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism, Jason Aronson                            Inc., New Jersey, London, 1985

Kopp, Sheldon, Back To One, Science and Behavior books, Palo Alto, CA, 1995
                          If You Meet Bhudda on the Road Kill Him, Science and Behavior                             Books

Kurtz, Ron/Prestera, M.D., Hector, The Body Reveals, Harper & Row, Publishers,
                                                          NY, 1976


Masterson, J.F.,
  • Treatment of the Borderline Adolescent: A Development                             Approach,  John Wiley & sons, Inc., NY, 1972                         
  • Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult: A Developmental                              Approach,  Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1982                          
  • Countertransference and Psychotherapeutic Technique: Teaching                    Seminars on Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult,                              Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1983                        
  • The Real Self: A Developmental, Self and Object Relations                               Approach. Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1985
 
Masterson, J.F., and Klein, R., (Eds.)
,

            Psychotherapy of the Disorders of the Self: The Masterson Approach,
            Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1988


Miller, Alice, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, 1984


Freud, S., On Narcissism: An Introduction,  (1914) Standard Edition, 14:73-102.                 London: Hogarth Press, 1957.



BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR FURTHER RESEARCH: 


Achterburg, J./Lawlis, G.F., Imagery of Cancer, 1978 Bridges of the BodyMind

Aron, Lewis and Anderson, Frances Sommer, Relational Perspectives on the Body, The Analytic Press, NJ, London, 1998

Bach, George R./Goldberg, Herb, Creative Aggression, Avon Books, NY, 1974

Baker, Ellsworth, Man in the Trap, Avon Books, NY, 1967

Berne, Eric, Games People Play, Grove Press, 1981

Black, Claudia, It Will Never Happen to Me!, Denver, 1981

Borysenko, Ph.D., Joan, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1987

Brown, Barbara, New Mind, New Body, 1974

Bry, Directing the Movies of Your Mind

Carrington, P., Freedom in Meditation

Cousins, N., Anatomy of an Illness, 1979

Downing, Gestalt Awareness, Perennial Library

Ellis, Willis D., A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology, The Gestalt Journal Press, Inc., NY, 1997

Freud, S., On Narcissism: An Introduction, (1914) Standard Edition, 14:73-102. London: Hogarth Press, 1957.

Gawain, Shakati, Creative Visualization, Whatever Publishing, Inc., San Raphael, CA, 1978

Green , Elmer, Beyond Biofeedback

Hendricks, Gay & Kathleen, At the Speed of Light, 1993

Hobson, Robert F., Forms of Feeling, The Heart of Psychotherapy, Tavistock Publications, London & NY, 1985

Jackson, Don/ Lederer, William, The Mirages of Marriages, W.W. Norton & Co., 1968

Lansky, Melvin R. and Morrison, Andrew P., The Widening Scope of Shame, The Analytic Press, NJ, London, 1997

Latner, Gestalt Therapy Book, Julian Press

Leshan, L., How to Meditate

Linberg, Ann Morrow, Gift from the Sea, Patheon Books, NY,1955

Mahler, M., The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant, Basic Books, NY, 1975

Masterson, J.F.:
  • Treatment of the Borderline Adolescent: A Development Approach, John Wiley & sons, Inc., NY, 1972
  • Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult: A Developmental Approach, Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1982
  • Countertransference and Psychotherapeutic Technique: Teaching Seminars on Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult, Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1983
  • The Real Self: A Developmental, Self and Object Relations Approach. Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1985

Masterson, J.F., and Klien, R., (Eds.), Psychotherapy of the Disorders of the Self: The Masterson Approach, Brunner/Mazel, NY, 1988

Miller, Alice, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, 1984

Miller, Michael Vincent, Intimate Terrorism: The Crisis of Love inan Age of Disillusion, W.W Norton & Co., Inc., NY, 1996

Summers, Frank, Object Relations, Theories, and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text, The Analytic Press, New Jersey, London, 1994

Naranjo, C., The Healing Journey: New Approaches to Consciousness, 1973

Oyle, I., The Healing Mind, 1975

Passons, Gestalt Approaches in Counseling, Holt, Rinnard & Winston

Perls, Fritz, In and Out of the Garbage Pail, Bantam Books, 1969

Perls, Fritz and Baumgartner, Legacy From Fritz, Science and Behavior Books

Prather, Hugh, Notes To Myself, Real People Press, Lafayette, CA, 1970

Ram Dass, Baba, Be Here Now, Lama Foundation, New Mexico, 1971

Rogers, Carl, The Interpersonal Relationship: The Core of Guidance, Sensitivity Training and the Laboratory Approach, ED. By Golembiewski, Robert and Blumberg, Arthur, Peacock Publishers, Ithica, IL, 1970

Rosenblatt, Daniel, Opening Doors: What Happens in Gestalt Therapy, The Center for Gestalt Development, NY, 1989

Samuels and Samuels, Seeing with the Minds' Eye, 1975

Satir, Virginia,
  • Conjoint Family Therapy, Rev. Ed., Science and Behavior Books, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1972
  • Peoplemaking, Science and Behavior Books, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1972

Schliefen, A.E., The Significance of Posture in Communication Systems, Psychiatry, 27, 316, 1964

Shultz, William, Joy, Grove Press, NY, 1967

The Simontons, Getting Well Again, 1980

Simkin, Jim, Mini Lecture in Gestalt Therapy, Word Press

Smith, The Growing Edge of Gestalt Therapy, Word Press

Steetbacher, J. Konrad, Four Step Method of Therapy: Making Sence of Suffering

Tansey, Michael J. and Burke, Walter F., Understanding Countertransference: From Projective Identification to Empathy, The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, 1989

Woititz, Ed.D., Janet Geringer, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL, 1983











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