So who decides what Gestalt is/is not?

• Massaging of the buttocks is gestalt therapy? by T. Dunn, 3/2/97
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    • A Final Comment by Joe Wysong, Editor, The Gestalt Journal, 3/4/97
      
      

Wow, I just jumped into this stuff about touching the body. I'm a gestalt therapist (or I thought I was) and I spent years training with Mike Smith (Lomi, the Ranch, etc.)(bless his soul where ever it is) in body work--and gestalt blended very well thank you--and I spent years researching heidegger and zen and gestalt--and living them--and I'm really disapointed to read this kind of bullshit about what gestalt is/is not. Once we talk about it like its some kind of thing--it loses all its life--who are you--or any of us--to say what it is. If it 'is'--its dead, and lets move on to something else.

• Here, here! by Mark Williams, 10/24/97
• Weary of airy fairyness by James W. Patterson, Ph.D., 5/3/98