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Elsa Gindler: Un ancetre perdu de Gestalt Cahier de Gestalt Bordeaux, France, Spring 2004 This is a translation of the article Elsa Gindler: Lost Gestalt Ancestor which was first published by the British Gestalt Journal in 2001 (reference below). French text will be posted here shortly. Elsa Gindler lived in Berlin
from 1885 -1961. During that time she developed and taught a method
of working with people which she called exactly that: "Arbeit
am Menschen"....In Gindler's groundbreaking work, students were
guided to be curious about their own functioning, and to experiment,
both in class and throughout their daily lives, with new ways of moving,
breathing, speaking and perceiving...Gindler was the first to use
the word "experiment" in relation to people's working with
their own awareness of body sensation in interaction with their environment....Central
to our Gestalt heritage is the fact that Laura Perls was a student
of Gindler in Berlin in the early 1930s.... The full text of this
article appears in British
Gestalt Journal 2001, Volume 10, No. 2 |