An Integrative Approach to Healing Complex and Transgenerational Trauma

‘Reflecting decades of experience as a psychotherapist, this book offers a moving approach to the understanding and treatment of trauma. Isaac Pizer emphasizes an intergenerational framework of understanding and the importance of the human relationship in effecting recovery. Drawing widely from the fields of psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy, analytical psychology and transpersonal psychology, the text is to be applauded for its scope of reference. With an outlook that is deeply personal without sacrificing its relevance to clinicians, Pizer offers a compelling mediation on Jewishness and the nature of collective trauma’.

Robin S. Brown, PhD, psychoanalyst in private practice and author of Groundwork for a Transpersonal Psychoanalysis

‘Isaac Pizer re-visions many of the core Gestalt concepts in order to integrate his ideas about trauma and the transpersonal in a way that is a genuine contribution to the Gestalt literature and method’.

Professor Charlotte Sills, co-author of Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy, psychotherapist, supervisor and coach

‘With An Integrative Approach to Healing Complex and Transgenerational Trauma , Isaac Pizer has written a wonderfully engaging and soulful account, generously supported with abundant case material and richly substantiated with references from his close acquaintance with the relevant literature, which is a call for us all, in our therapeutic work with psychological trauma, to follow his own journey – as a Gestalt therapist deeply imbued with the radical relationality of Martin Buber – to engage also with the depth of the realms of the transpersonal and the transgenerational. As an integration of theory and practice this book is a veritable tour de force which I found both moving and inspiring, and it will certainly encourage and enrich your own practice as it has mine’.

Dr Gordon Barclay, MA, MPhil, MRCGP, MRCP, MRCPsych, retired NHS consultant psychiatrist, CAT therapist, founder/trainer of TDS (Towards a Dialectical Self)

Isaac Pizer is an accredited psychotherapist and a clinical supervisor. Pizer worked for many years as a social worker and commenced training in psychotherapy in 1992. He holds a BSc in Sociology, a Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy (2000), an MA in Humanistic Person-Centred Psychotherapy (2003) and a Diploma in Clinical Supervision (2015).