An influential standard work by the founder of Gestalt therapy. Don't talk about your problem, but act it out - this could summarize the therapeutic method. A dream, for instance, is not interpreted but is enacted as a drama of self-encounter; the dreamer is encouraged to engage in an active dialogue with the various elements (not just people) of their dream, playing both dialogue partners. Thus, amidst intense emotional upheavals, contact is established with suppressed or fragmented aspects of the personality ("integration" instead of "analysis"). This leads to the processing of unresolved conflicts - not through rational insight, but through empathetic identification.