GESTALT MAGAZINE

                                                                GESTALT 2/2006

Dear Reader,

It's been 15 years. Gestalt has been read since 1991. This period has also been the period of the development of Gestalt psychotherapy in Poland. Jacek Pierzchała together with the Gestalt Therapy Centre started this period. Presently in Poland there are a couple of centers created by graduates from our Schools. Clients can come to several private offices. We can often meet our psychotherapists working in ambulatories and hospitals. The present time is the great work and success of the Institute Chairperson Katarzyna Węglorz - Makuch, during whose term of office the Institute obtained EAP and EAGT accreditation. In this respect the Institute is the only such place in Poland.
On the pages of our magazine you can find the reflection of what has happened, is happening and is going to happen in Gestalt psychotherapy and in psychotherapy in general.
No entry into force of the Law on the Profession of Psychologist and Professional Self- government and legal regulations of the profession of psychologists are issues of primary importance. We are writing about them in this issue.
Gestalt in always open to guests from abroad. We have a few of them now. I thank them for accepting my invitation, I also thank also Polish authors for their articles.
Once again I invite everyone, for who the subjects of our magazine are close and who would like to be present on our pages. I also invite our old, present and future readers to subscribe our magazine.

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From Editor	3
Theory and Practice in Psychotherapy	4
Peter Schulthess Capability for social and political responsibility as an objective of Gestalt therapy	4
Daan van Baalen Gestalt psychotherapy and affective biopolar disorder	12
Ken Evans Living with dying	21
Alicja Kuczkowska The concept of three "lacks" in the work with people with suicidal tendencies	33
Emilia Soroko Why does a metaphor work? Therapeutic effectiveness in the light of knowledge about a metaphor	41
Gestalt people
I am on my way an interview with Magdalena Zaleska - Stolzman	61
Psychotherapy - contexts
Draft of the Act on the repeal of the Act on the profession of a psychologist	65
Profession of a psychotherapist - legal status	66
The most important achievements of the Polish Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy	67
From the Board meeting in Reykjavik	68
From the life of the Institute
EAGT certificate for the Institute and EAP accreditation for the Institute	69
EAGT - European conference for the people writing about Gestalt	71
Worth reading
Counting the time - by Gaie Houston, Gestalt. Brief therapy.	72
Institute offers	74
Various items	80