Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was a novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist, although now best known as a social critic, anarchist philosopher, and public intellectual. Though often thought of as a sociologist, he vehemently denied being one in a presentation in the Experimental College at San Francisco State in 1964, and in fact said he could not read sociology because it was too often lifeless. The author of dozens of books including Growing Up Absurd and The Community of Scholars, Goodman was an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and a frequently cited inspiration to the student movement of that decade. A lay therapist for a number of years, he was a co-founder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1940s and '50s.
An Advertisement and Introduction
Ken Winter March 1967
New Foreword and Appendix, March 2007
Foreword (2007)................................................................................................2
Preface..............................................................................................................4
Processes vs Things .........................................................................................6
The Process of Experience ...............................................................................7
A Digression Concerning “Perspectives”.........................................................10
The Organism/Environment Field....................................................................11
The Structure of Contact .................................................................................14
The Creative Adjustment Sequence................................................................16
Your Present Experience ................................................................................22
The Self...........................................................................................................24
The Aftermath of Contact ................................................................................25
The Acute Emergency.....................................................................................28
The Chronic Emergency..................................................................................29
The Aftermath of Chronic Emergency: Neurosis .............................................33
The Normal Neurotic .......................................................................................36
Restoring Psychological Health.......................................................................36
Appendix (2007): Perls and Goodman ...........................................................39
References......................................................................................................42
Foreword (2007)
I wrote this paper 40 years ago for a University of Michigan seminar called “Theories of Personality”.
I am reissuing it now, for the same reason I wrote it then: to recommend to you the deepest and truest book of psychology that I have known – the theoretical volume of Gestalt Therapy,
by Frederick Perls, Ralph Hefferline, and Paul Goodman, first
published in 1951.
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