Gestalt Therapy Institute of Philadelphia (GTIP) Philip Lichtenberg, Ph.D.

	Philip Lichtenberg, Ph.D.

"I would like the graduates of GTIP to be good clinically and to be good citizens. My hope is that they will want to inform their citizen life by Gestalt Therapy principles. Too often people segregate the two. But these principles are concerned with nothing less than creating a truly democratic society — one that is egalitarian in all of its dimensions and promotes every voice being heard and respected.

We run GTIP this way: we challenge each other, respect each other, support one another. We also work this way with our trainees: we want them to rise up from their own style or approach to invite growth and welcome difference. We are trying to build a small community on Gestalt principles, and we hope that graduates will take this model and build on it in their own communities."

Biography

Philip is a licensed psychologist who taught at the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research for more than 35 years. Philip received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University and his formal training in Gestalt Therapy at the Gestalt Training Center in San Diego with Erving and Miriam Polster. He also studied with Isadore From in New York. He has authored six books, including Community and Confluence: Undoing the Clinch of Oppression and Encountering Bigotry: Befriending Projecting Persons in Everyday Life. He has also written many articles and monographs. Philip regularly conducts training abroad. His areas of theoretical interest include the use of Gestalt Therapy in the larger world of social action and social organization.

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	Directors and Principal Faculty Mary Lou Schack, Ph.D Philip Lichtenberg, Ph.D. David S. Henrich, L.C.S.W., B.C.D. Joyce E. Lewis, L.C.S.W., Co-Founder, Deceased Faculty Adjunct Faculty