Books

Bates (Ransoming the Mind) reminds readers of the importance of fairy tales as ``the metaphors and poetry of the human psyche.'' Specifically, he contends that in the story of ``The Three Little Pigs''.

A book that aims "to provide a brief introduction to interested people who had no knowledge or particular interest in the broader areas of humanistic psychology or therapy." An excellent nontechnical introduction to the Gestalt approach.

Fritz Perls was the co-founder of Gestalt Therapy, which is based on a holistic view of people and their relationship to the environment. A radical and refreshing challenge to psychoanalysis, Gestalt remains one of the most important and influential approaches in counselling.

The book, like others in the series, follows the temporal sequence of clinical practice following an introduction to the fundermentals of the Gestalt approach.