num_pages: 275
description: This 1st book by Perls is significant because in addition to criticising Freud, it also lays the groundwork for a new system of psychotherapy. In fact it's the beginning of the gestalt therapy by one of the founding fathers of this therapy.-- Ehrenwald Frederick Perls received his M.D. in Berlin in 1921. Like Wilhelm Reich he started out as a Freudian analyst, but under the influence of Kohler, Wertheimer &amp; Kurt Goldstein developed his own school of analysis: Gestalt Therapy. His principles of gestalt therapy have been adopted by countless encounter &amp; sensitivity groups. He aims in this book to examine some psychological &amp; psychopathological reactions of the human organism within its environment. The author is criticsl of orthodox psychoanalysis, &amp; claims that the use of the new intellectual tools holism (field conception) &amp; semantics (the meaning of meaning) can greatly improve our theoretical outlook.
language: English
title: Ego, Hunger and Aggression
titlecomplete: Ego, Hunger and Aggression
genres: Nonfiction, Psychology
ratings_count: 182
publisher: Vintage/Random House (NY)