Honorary Chairman of the international
Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA)
Hans-Jürgen Walter was born 1944 in Weidenhausen, Germany. 1965-1971 he
studied psychology at the universities of Marburg and Frankfurt. In 1977 he received
his doctor' degree based on his thesis "Gestalt theory as a scientific base
for psychotherapy practice and its relation to contemporary approaches in psychotherapy".
1971-1973 he served as a psychotherapist and assistant director in a sanatorium
for male addicts; since then he is privately practicing as a psychotherapist and
supervisor. 1973-1979 he was the acting editor of the journal 'Gruppendynamik'
(Group Dynamics) and reader for social psychology and psychotherapy for the Klett-Cotta
publishing house.
Since 1977 full membership in the group dynamics section of the German Working
Group for Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics (DAGG); co-founder, chairman
(1991-1999) and - since 1999 - honorary chairman of the international 'Society
for Gestalt Theory and its Applications' (GTA). Co-editor of the journal
GESTALT THEORY. An International
Multidisciplinary Journal.
Walter received psychotherapy training in client-centered psychotherapy, psychoanalysis,
psychodrama, theme-centered interaction and a full Gestalt therapy training
at the Fritz-Perls-Institute (F.P.I.) in Düsseldorf/Germany. He
was and is on the teaching staff of various institutes for professional psychotherapy
training: 1975-1979 as a psychotherapy trainer at the Fritz-Perls-Institute
(F.P.I.) in Düsseldorf/Germany and for the Working Group for Social
Psychology and Group Dynamics (ASG) in Vienna/Austria; 1976/77 as a visiting
lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute Stuttgart and 1978/1981 at the Alfred
Adler Institute of the 'German Society for Individual Psychology';
1986-1993 lecturer for Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy at the university of
Vienna/Austria; since 1979 psychotherapy trainer for the psychotherapy section
of the GTA (Austrian
and German
Working Party for Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy).
His main theoretical publication is Gestalttheorie
und Psychotherapie ('Gestalt theory and psychotherapy'), first published
in 1977 (2nd edition 1985, 3rd edition 1994). This book laid the foundations
for the development of Gestalt
Theoretical Psychotherapy. For more information about publications of
Hans-Jürgen Walter: see books and articles.
At present there are only two articles of Walter published in English: "Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy And Gestalt-Theoretical Psychotherapy: A Comparison From the
Aspect of 'Self-Dertermination' "(published in the E-journal
Gestalt!),
and his article "What
do Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Theory Have to Do with Each Other?"
recently published in English in "The Gestalt Journal" (Spring
1999 issue, pp 45-68). But it is intended to get some of his main works available
in English before long. A synopsis of H.-J. Walter's 12 characteristics of Gestalt
oriented psychotherapeutical work was published in Portuguese by M. Azevedo
Fernades: Sobre
a psicologia da forma e os 12 preceitos de H.-J. Walter (with a short comment
in English by G. Stemberger). A full English translation of Walter's "12
characteristics" is in preparation.
For
a bibliography of Hans-Juergen P. Walter click here!
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