A Safe Place for Katie : A Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Her
Suicidal Experience

C 2022

A Safe Place for Katie : A Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Her Suicidal Experience

KRYSINSKA, Karolina, Jan ROUBAL and Dave MANN

Basic information

Original name

A Safe Place for Katie : A Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Her Suicidal Experience

Authors

KRYSINSKA, Karolina (36 Australia), Jan ROUBAL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Dave MANN (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Edition

New York, Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide : A Study of a Diary, p. 109-123, 15 pp. 2022

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/22:00125099

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-0-367-63620-3

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003125655-11

Keywords in English

Suicide; psychotherapy; Gestalt therapy

Abstract

V originále

Gestalt psychotherapy is a process-based phenomenological-existential therapy defined by the three foundations or “pillars” of field theory, phenomenology and dialogue. This chapter presents Gestalt therapy’s understanding of suicide risk and how a Gestalt psychotherapist can work with a suicidal client guided by these three foundational concepts. Based on Katie’s diary, we describe the process of maintaining an I-Thou attitude between the psychotherapist and the client, and the phenomenological exploration of Katie’s suicidal tendencies within a safe structure of a psychotherapy session. We present the general strategy of supporting integration and grounding (i.e., glue rather than solvent), the significance of skillful balancing the “life-death” polarity and broadening the range of cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational options available to Katie. We also propose a way of working with Katie’s borderline tendencies and post-traumatic experiences as well as look at our own experience as Gestalt psychotherapists facing a suffering client.

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KRYSINSKA, Karolina, Jan ROUBAL and Dave MANN. A Safe Place for Katie : A Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Her Suicidal Experience. In John F. Gunn III and David Lester. Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide : A Study of a Diary. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022, p. 109-123. ISBN 978-0-367-63620-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003125655-11.

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KRYSINSKA, Karolina, Jan ROUBAL and Dave MANN. A Safe Place for Katie : A Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Her Suicidal Experience. In John F. Gunn III and David Lester. \textit{Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide : A Study of a Diary}. New York: Routledge, Taylor \&{} Francis Group, 2022, p.~109-123. ISBN~978-0-367-63620-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003125655-11.

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