This volume contains a collection of published and unpublished essays and conference lectures prepared by Jean-Marie Robine. Following the author in his line of thought, readers can learn how Robine has explored some of the topics most dear to him, in which his insights have become key contributions over the last ten years in the international Gestalt community.

Robine is one of the most prominent theorists on the contemporary Gestalt therapy scene, and this book is a precious contribution to the Gestalt therapy community not only for the contents it conveys, but as an example of a paradigmatic model of inquiry—of how to develop Gestalt therapy theory and practice by drawing from various grounds and like-minded disciplines and channeling it into the practice of psychotherapy and stimulating new thought, without ever losing the rigor of our foundational epistemology. This new edition features five new chapters covering topics such as the concept of Self, establishing a clinical approach to the 'Situation' in Gestalt Therapy, and the therapeutic relationship.

Readers will be taken on a tour of Robine's unique perspectives in in areas ranging from philosophical issues to social concerns, clinical insights to political perspectives, without ever losing focus of Gestalt therapy. It will be of great value to therapists and students of gestalt therapy.

Jean-Marie Robine, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist since 1967 and gestalt-therapist since 1976. After more than 15 years as a psychologist, then director, in a public health service for children, adolescents and their families, he created in 1980 the Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie (IFGT), the first Gestalt-therapy Institute created in France which, to date, has trained hundreds or maybe thousands of gestalt-therapists not only in France but also in Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, USA and Latin America. He is the author and editor of nine books on Gestalt Therapy and lives in the countryside, near Bordeaux, France.