A Well-Lived Life

Author: Sylvia F. CrockerPublisher: RoutledgePaperback:ISBN 10: 0881633194ISBN 13: 978-0881633191Sylvia Crocker's A Well-Lived Life 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. 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