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...
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...
by Alan Cohen | Aug 7, 2014 | Spiritual/Philosophical
I have been developing an interest, both theoretical and experiential, in what I refer to as Presence over the course of the past forty years. In this blog I would like to begin to elucidate some of my clinical, theoretical, and personal findings regarding Presence,...
by Alan Cohen | Aug 6, 2014 | Spiritual/Philosophical
In the last decade, there has been a lot of attention given to meditation in the psychotherapeutic community. Much of this attention has been focused on Mindfulness meditation, in which attention is given to any object of awareness that enters the mind, with full...
by Alan Cohen | Aug 5, 2014 | Spiritual/Philosophical
Awareness is the central element in any approach to psychotherapy or human behavior, but it is likely the most neglected aspect when it comes to our inquiry. In psychoanalytic theory, “awareness” was seen as being synonymous with “consciousness”, but was not defined...