This book considers gestalt therapy from a perspective that includes yet goes beyond its clinical relevance. Fritz and Laura came to America during one of its most difficult yet creative moments, one in which it was searching for a new sense of personal, political, and cultural identity. Given the genius and the political activism of Paul Goodman, much of this new and radical energy was intimately integrated into what gestalt therapy would become, not only as a revision of Freudian topology, but as a major revolutionary therapeutic approach.