Dans la lettre d’information de printemps de l’EAGT qui vient de paraître, Jean-Marie Robine m’a fait le grand plaisir de m’accorder un entretien sur les circonstances de ce texte de F.S.Perls, qui est l’un de ses derniers.
J’ai aussi pu avoir un entretien avec F.S.Perls himself… – ou était-ce un rêve ?
Bonnes lectures !
L’histoire de vie du fondateur de la « théorie paradoxale du changement », Arnold R.Beisser (1925-1991). Psychiatre et Gestalt-thérapeute, professeur de psychiatrie à l’UCLA (Los Angeles, USA), élève de Fritz Perls.
Un extrait du DVD sur youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW75TxFeACs
With his whole life before him, 25-year-old national tennis champion and aspiring young surgeon, Arnold Beisser, was struck down by Polio. « In a few hours, without warning, I was transformed from a doctor to a patient, from an athlete to a cripple. Polio had ravaged me so that I could not stand, walk, sit, eat, drink or even breathe by myself. »
Family, friends, colleagues and Arnold himself tell this inspiring journey of loss, acceptance, triumph and love — how he become a pioneer in sports psychology, UCLA Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, leader in the community mental health movement, Gestalt trainer, and best-selling author. Dr. Beisser is known world wide for his seminal paper « Paradoxical Theory of Change. »
Liv Estrup is a Gestalt therapist, photographer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles (www.LivEstrup.com). She is on faculty of the Gestalt Associates Training of Los Angeles (www.GATLA.org)