Engaged Surrender: The Polarity of Dialogue in Gestalt Therapy

LYNNE JACOBS, PhD, lives in two psychotherapy worlds. She is cofounder of the Pacific Gestalt Institute and also a Training and Supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She is coauthor (with Rich Hycner), of The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy: A Dialogic/Self Psychology Approach (1995), and she and Hycner coedited Relational Perspectives in Gestalt Therapy (2010). She has also written numerous articles for Gestalt and psychoanalytic publications. She has abiding interests in furthering our understanding of relational factors in the therapy process, and in understanding the centrality of Euro-ethnicity and its implications for clinical work.