Opening Doors: What Happens in Gestalt Therapy (Perennial Library) - Softcover

First published in 1975 and revised and updated in 1989, Opening Doors was the first book to offer insight into what takes place in the consulting room of a Gestalt therapist during both individual and group sessions. In the first edition the author offered clinical vignettes detailing more than thirty of his patients. In the revised edition, published fifteen years later, he includes a brief "update," writing of how Gestalt therapy impacted each of their lives. The author was one of the first to provide therapeutic services to AIDs victims from Manhattan's Gay Community and shares some of his moving experiences with his gay clients. In her forward, Gestalt therapy founder Laura Perls wrote: "This book is a strong gestalt, a successful integration of theory and practice, of explanation and expression, into an intensely personal style of communication. Daniel Rosenblatt's precise and, at the same time, imaginative and flowing use of language in dialogue and metaphor makes exciting and enjoyable reading. Opening Doors offers a profound insight into Gestalt therapy. I recommend this book to all serious students and practitioners of psychotherapy as well as to the general public."

Daniel Rosenblatt, Ph.D., was a long time Gestalt practitioner in New York City. He studied psychology at Harvard and Cambridge. He was trained in Gestalt Therapy by Laura Perls. After working as a scientist in psychology for many years he established his private practice as a psychotherapist in New York City. Daniel was a fellow of the New York Gestalt Institute and he also served as its president. An internationally known trainer, he conducted Gestalt workshops and training groups in the U.S., in Europe, Australia and Japan. His books are considered classics in the field of Gestalt Therapy and include: "Opening Doors: What Happens in Gestalt Therapy," "The Gestalt Therapy Primer," and "Your Life is a Mess (and What to Do About It)."