Gestalt Therapy - Current Status

Current Status

Gestalt therapy reached a zenith in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since then it has influenced other fields like organisational development, coaching, and teaching. Many of its contributions have become assimilated into other current schools of therapy. In recent years, it has seen a resurgence in popularity as an active, psychodynamic form of therapy which has also incorporated some elements of recent developments in attachment theory. There are, for example, four Gestalt training institutes in the New York City metropolitan area alone, not to mention dozens of others worldwide.

Gestalt therapy continues to thrive as a widespread form of psychotherapy, especially throughout Europe, where there are many practitioners and training institutions.

The form of Gestalt Practice initially developed at Esalen Institute by Dick Price has spawned numerous offshoots. The most important is now called Gestalt Awareness Practice by Price’s wife and collaborator, Christine Stewart Price. She teaches this mode of practice in California, throughout the United States, as well as in Japan.