Gestalt Therapy: The Art of Contact

“It is a pleasure to tell you all about Serge Ginger, a distant cousin and a professional friend for 30 years. This is an interesting and varied book. It reflects Serge Ginger’s rich knowledge and multilingual background. His writing reflects the influence of Fritz Perls―Perls had a profound impact on my own professional development in Gestalt thinking and work―so it is a pleasure to ‘meet’ Fritz again and again in Serge’s writing.”
(Joseph Zinker, PhD, Perls’ discipline, Cleveland and Cape Cod)

“Serge Ginger offers us a rate treat: a work which brings together traditional French contemporary Gestalt therapy, and both psychoanalytic understanding and up-to-date research from the neurosciences. But this is no idiosyncratic view; it has a knowledge and wisdom honed by his position as a leading international exponent of Gestalt, a much sought-after teacher in Europe, Russia, Japan and the Americas. The fact that he can present his work in so readable a way ensures that those with even a limited understanding of the field will be rewarded by reading this book.” (Adrian M. Rhodes, Vice Chair (Regulation))

“It is a pleasure to tell you all about Serge Ginger, a distant cousin and a professional friend for 30 years. This is an interesting and varied book. It reflects Serge Ginger’s rich knowledge and multilingual background. His writing reflects the influence of Fritz Perls―Perls had a profound impact on my own professional development in Gestalt thinking and work―so it is a pleasure to ‘meet’ Fritz again and again in Serge’s writing.” (Joseph Zinker, PhD, Perls’ discipline, Cleveland and Cape Cod)

Serge Ginger has been one of the pioneers of Gestalt Therapy in France since 1970. With his wife, Anne Ginger, he founded the Paris School of Gestalt in 1980, which is one of the leading Gestalt training institutes in Europe. He is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Psychodramatist and Gestalt Therapist and teaches Gestalt in France and throughout the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Romania, Poland, Latvia, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, USA, and Japan). He is currently the President of the International Federation of Gestalt Training Organizations, Secretary General of the French National Umbrella for Psychotherapy and the Registrar of the European Association for Psychotherapy.