Introduction: The personal is political is personal is political 1. Homo homini emptor! Therapy in times of liquid modernity 2. How to shrink a bat: individualism, intersubjectivity and the 'in-between 3. Contact is a field's first reality 4. The id of the situation: atmospheres demystified 5. In contact we are being resonated 6. Grounding resonance - the physical and felt body 7. Personalistic gestalt therapy and its subsequent relational turn 8. In the middle of therapy, the field has its seat 9. My gestalt of therapy: The aftermath of contact is accomplished growth 10. Epilogue

Lothar Gutjahr is a therapist, mediator and business coach working with people on personal and health issues, leadership challenges, conflict resolution, difficult negotiations, project management, and intercultural cooperation. He finished his Gestalt education at the Gestalt Institute Hamburg (GIH) and started his own practice in 2017. He is also an author. www.ProvoCoach.com

In Gestalt therapy, sociological, political, and economic research is often neglected or ignored. Drawing on analyses about current societal conditions, this book considers that there is no such thing as a 'postmodern' therapy and offers a new approach to Gestalt therapy.