From free association to concentration: awareness, Ferenczi’s "forced fantasies" and "the third" in Gestalt therapy
Journal title QUADERNI DI GESTALT
Author/s Bernd Bocian
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/2
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 121-135 File size 245 KB
DOI 10.3280/GEST2014-002008
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This paper describes Perls’s revision of Freud’s technique of free association as part of a tradition that started with Breuer and Freud, continued with Ferenczi and the Berlin character analysts, and then led to their student Fritz Perls. In this context, Perls’s "dramatizing techniques" that the authors calls "the third" in Gestalt therapy, are seen as further developments of Ferenczi’s work with "forced fantasies".
Keywords: Concentration, free association, gestalt therapy, character analysis, Ferenczi, history of psychotherapy.
Bernd Bocian, Dalla libera associazione alla concentrazione: la consapevolezza, le "fantasie forzate" di Ferenczi e "il terzo" in terapia della Gestalt in "QUADERNI DI GESTALT" 2/2014, pp 121-135, DOI: 10.3280/GEST2014-002008