8 Contact disturbance: Retroflection

Satisfies SLO/CLO #3 (Identify and differentiate “disturbances to contact”)

Reading

• Polster, E., & Polster, M. (1974). Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Chapter 4. The Commerce of Resistance. Retroflection, pp. 82-89
• Kepner, J. I. (1987). Body Process: A Gestalt Approach. New York: Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Press.
  • Chapter 4. Action and Body Process, pp. 146-164

Learning Experience

• Balancing feather exercise
• Option to do hot seat work with the instructor

Assignment

• Journal prompt: Think about a time when you retroflected. Describe the process that you went through.