Our Meeting with Gestalt Therapy: Some Reflections on Paul Goodman and the Development of Gestalt Therapy in the Americas Derived from "Here Now Next"

One of the aims of Gestalt Review is to encourage communication between those of us who have extensive contact with each other and those other vital areas of Gestalt activity about which many of us know very little. Last winter, I wrote to Francisco Huneeus, the current Spanish language publisher of my The Gestalt Therapy Book, in Santiago, Chile, to ask him to write about Gestalt therapy in South America for Gestalt Review. Huneeus suggested I write to Marta Slemenson, who was writing an introduction on that topic for Huneeus's edition of Taylor Stoehr's Here Now Next, the wonderful book on Paul Goodman's role in the development of Gestalt therapy. The ensuing lively correspondence produced the following article, which consists of that introduction and a preface written especially for Gestalt Review. J. L.