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Place of Birth: Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
About Gerhard Stemberger
- Gerhard Stemberger (born June 29, 1947 in Innsbruck, Austria) is a sociologist and Gestalt psychologist in Vienna, Austria, and one of the main representatives of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy.
- After a career in sociological and psychological working time research, Stemberger turned to clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
- He has published extensively in the fields of clinical applications of Gestalt psychology, key concepts of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, ethics in psychotherapy, and history of Gestalt theory.
- He is co-editor (executive editor 2000-2012) of the international multidisciplinary journal "Gestalt Theory" (de Gruyter) and of the journal "Phänomenal - Zeitschrift für Gestalttheoretische Psychotherapie" (Krammer).
- He is faculty member of the Austrian Association for Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy (Ă–AGP).
- 1999-2007 he was president of the international Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA).
- 1992-2011 he served as an expert member of the Psychotherapy Advisory Council of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health.
- Stemberger is living in Vienna (Austria) and Berlin (Germany). Stemberger has edited and published three important Gestalt psychological anthologies: The first appeared in 2002 and contains classical and contemporary Gestalt psychological contributions to psychopathology ("Psychische Störungen im Ich-Welt-Verhältnis").
- The second, published in 2017, is a collection of works of the Italian Gestalt psychologist Giuseppe Galli ("Der Mensch als Mit-Mensch").
- The third appeared in 2018, a collection of works of the German Gestalt psychologist, sports psychologist and lucid dreams researcher Paul Tholey ("Gestalttheorie von Sport, Klartraum und Bewusstsein").
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