Intimate Terrorism:
The Crisis of Love in an Age of Disillusion
“We live in an age when love and power have become virtually interchangeable. Intimate Terrorismis a profound and beautifully written exploration of this condition that draws from psychology, literature, popular culture, current events, and the author's own therapeutic practice to examine the contemporary crisis of intimacy--and suggest what we all might do about it. In doing so it offers one of the most probing readings of the American psyche in years.”
- Amazon.com
“This is a serious essay, a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on what has gone wrong with love and marriage in the lives of individuals and in society as a whole.”
- Francine Klagsbrun, Boston Globe
“Extraordinarily well written popular psychology. . . . A probing account of contemporary pain.”
- Kirkus Reviews
“A witty, ironic, poetic, deeply intelligent and iconoclastic book about love . . . serious, wise and ultimately hopeful.”
- Carol Gilligan
Teaching a Paranoid to Flirt
The Poetics of Gestalt Therapy
From the title chapter, “Teaching a Paranoid to Flirt” to “The Aesthetics of Commitment: What Gestalt Therapists Can Learn from Cézanne and Miles Davis,” author Michael Vincent Miller explores the facets of Gestalt therapy — the aesthetic, the theoretical, and the clinical. In his forty-year career as a practicing Gestalt therapist, a teacher of Gestalt therapy, his essays, reviews and commentaries on Gestalt therapy in particular and psychology in general have appeared in publications throughout the world including The New York Times Review of Books and The Boston Globe. This 400 page volume is divided into three sections: “Themes: Clinical and Philosophical,” “Commentary,” and “Founders and Shapers: Introductions and Elegies.”
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Paths of Curiosity
…a conversation about gestalt-therapy with Giuliana Ratti
Curiosity moving toward discovery, creativity giving form to experience, and acceptance of impermanence and mortality are the major themes that drive this book about gestalt therapy. It is almost as though it were a gestalt therapy session itself, but raised to the level of theory. — Michael V. Miller
I consider Michael Vincent Miller one of the leading gestalt therapists in the world. He is also a man of letters, a discipline that Freud felt made the best psychoanalysts. In his approach to psychotherapy, its practice and its theory, he brings a background in teaching literature, an immersion in philosophy, and an involvement in the arts, as well as a deep knowledge of psychology. — Giuliana Ratti
