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Living and Dying

by Alan Cohen | Aug 12, 2014 | Looking for Psychotherapy

We are compelled by feelings that don’t have words when we encounter the experience of birth, and when we encounter the experience of death. Both experiences, if we are open to them, give us a sense of awe, that what is happening here is truly unexplainable and beyond...

Comparing Basic Assumptions of Different Approaches to Psychotherapy

by Alan Cohen | Aug 11, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Mental Health Professionals, NYC Therapist

by Alan Cohen | Aug 11, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Mental Health Professionals, NYC Therapist When we look at different approaches to psychotherapy, we are actually not looking at interchangeable strategies, techniques, or interventions. Each approach has its own set of...

Layers of the Neurotic Personality

by Alan Cohen | Aug 10, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Mental Health Professionals, NYC Therapist

In the late 1960’s Fritz Perls spoke about something he called “the layers of the neurotic personality”. It was essentially a phenomenological description of the experience, identifications, and behaviors of people who have substituted what he referred to as...

Impasse

by Alan Cohen | Aug 9, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Mental Health Professionals, NYC Therapist

Impasse – For My Students In Gestalt Therapy theory, the concept of impasse is controversial, even within the realm of Gestalt Therapy. And yet the experience that this concept points to and describes is, to me, the most crucial in relation to change and growth and to...

What Is True (or Why I do What I Do

by Alan Cohen | Aug 8, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Looking for Psychotherapy, NYC Therapist

I’ve always felt that the key element of a life that is meaningful is the ability to live in relation to that which feels true. Many of us know what feels true for us and avoid living it or disclosing it because it feels shameful or frightening. Many of us simply...