What is Gestalt Review?
Gestalt Review is a publication that concentrates on the Gestalt approach to clinical, family, group, and organizational topics. Case studies and papers dealing with specific clinical issues are regularly featured, but the journal also publishes original papers dealing with politics, philosophy, culture, and gender.
Gestalt therapy has grown enormously in recent years, with over 150 training centers worldwide and an increasing number of regional, national, and international conferences. Gestalt Review is responding to this growth by nurturing dialogue throughout the worldwide community of Gestalt practitioners, including the publication of translations of articles from other languages. Further, it appeals to readers outside the Gestalt community by providing a forum for exchanges among Gestalt and non-Gestalt practitioners and theorists; the journal aims to demonstrate the relevance of the Gestalt approach to clinicians and consultants who work with specific populations, systems, and problem areas.
Publication
Gestalt Review was started by the Gestalt International Study Center, directed by Edwin W. Nevis, Ph.D. It is a publication of GISC - supported by its subscribers and by GISC, which continues to underwrite administrative costs which are not covered by income. Gestalt Review is issued three times annually.
GISC operates two centers, sponsors workshops, a training program, and several other activities. Visit www.gisc.org for more information.
Editors and Editorial Board
Gestalt Review is composed of an editor, a co-editor, associate editors, and an Editorial Board. The composition of the Editorial Board is designed to reflect the diversity and scope of the Gestalt approach. It incorporates representatives from a wide range of countries, institutes, interests and Gestalt journals.
The editor and associate editor meet formally once a year to discuss issues and policy. In addition, our informal contacts are many.
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Gestalt Review Editorial Process
Most of the major policy decisions concerning the review process are decided through discussion among the associate editors. Other decisions, for example, whether reviewers’ identities should be masked from each other, are decided by the Editorial Board as a whole.
Decisions about how to respond to papers submitted to Gestalt Review are made first by the editor and the associate editors. In the next phase of evaluation, masked reviews of articles (also called "blind reviews," where the author's name is omitted from the copies) are solicited from members of the editorial board. This part of the process is very important to us, and we take great pains to make sure that it is fair and thorough. Authors receive a written response from the Editor, often with quotations from the evaluations of the manuscript by the members of the Editorial Board who have read it. If we agree to publish a manuscript, we work with the prospective author to ensure that the finished article represents the author at his or her best.
Reviews and Reflections
Reviews and Reflections is the place in Gestalt Review for the publication of short articles, opinion pieces, personal reflections, humor, poetry, movie, theatre, music and book reviews, dispatches from conferences, training programs and workshops, and essays on special topics. So far, we have published pieces on Nobel Prize laureates and ancient music, poems on paintings, poetry connected to the Gestalt process, and incisive critiques of important books in Gestalt therapy.
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