Intentionality: The Fabric of Relationality

The coronavirus pandemic is a world-historical event. We live in a post-Covid world. This paper addresses how Gestalt therapy's concepts of intentionality, contacting, and relationality come together as the intentionality of contacting that form the fabric of relationality. These concepts are p...

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Published in:The Humanistic psychologist 2020-12, Vol.48 (4), p.389-396
Main Author: Bloom, Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Concepts
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Gestalt Therapy
Human
Intention
Pandemics
Performing arts
Phenomenology
Psychotherapy
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Summary:The coronavirus pandemic is a world-historical event. We live in a post-Covid world. This paper addresses how Gestalt therapy's concepts of intentionality, contacting, and relationality come together as the intentionality of contacting that form the fabric of relationality. These concepts are presented from a clinical phenomenological and personal perspective of the author in New York City at the height of the pandemic. This article is an adaptation of a May 16, 2020, presentation at the online conference "Dialogues on Psychotherapy at the Time of Coronavirus," sponsored by Instituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy.
ISSN:0887-3267
1547-3333
DOI:10.1037/hum0000212