Dan Bloom

Bio

Dan Bloom JD, LCSW (www.danbloomnyc.com) is a psychotherapist, supervisor, clinical trainer, and writer in New York City.  He studied with Laura Perls, Isadore From and Richard Kitzler. Dan is affiliated with the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, has been guest and adjunct faculty at gestalt therapy institutes worldwide. He has spoken and given workshops at many international conferences. He leads webinars in gestalt therapy and phenomenology. He is president and Fellow of NYIGT and past president of IAAGT. He is a member and accredited supervisor of EAGT.   Dan is co-founder of the International Study Group on Field-Emergent Self and Therapy, (www.Ig-fest.com). He is an associate editor of the Gestalt Review, on the scientific board of Quaderni di Gestalt and a member of the Scientific Board of the Gestalt therapy Book Series. He was editor-in-chief of the journal, Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges. Dan is widely published.

Psychotherapist, supervisor, clinical trainer, writer and editor

Professional Education

1976-2008, Training and advanced supervision as a gestalt therapist with Laura Perls, Isadore From, Richard Kitzler, and Patrick Kelley of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy
1981, Master’s in Social Work, New York University
1972,Juris Doctor, New York University

Professional Organizations and Positions

New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, president, (current and 2001 – 2005; vice-president, 2001- 2005); Fellow
International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (president 2008 – 2010; vice-president, 2006- 2010)
International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field -Emergent Self and Therapy (IG-Fest),
European Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, credentialed member and supervisor
Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy
The Heidegger Circle

Professional Certifications

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New York State License Number R-025871-1r
Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Social Work
Registered Clinical Social Worker,
National Association of Social Workers Registry
Attorney admitted to practice in New York State and Federal jurisdictions

Professional Honors

Fellow, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy
Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, National Association of Social Workers
Scientific Advisory Board, Member, Scientific Board, Gestalt Therapy Book Series, Istituto di Gestalt

Professional Activities and Presentations

2024
— Master Class, ““When the walls keep tumbling down:  re-discovering the ground of the figure during the suffering of war,” International Institute of Practical Psychology, Kharkiv, Ukraine 

2023
— Workshop lecture series, “Gestalt therapy: freedom, contacting, and the other,” Pogodin Academy, Kiev, Ukraine (Online)
— Presenter, Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art, Dnipro, Ukraine
— Workshop, Gestalt Therapy and the Call of Freedom,” European Association for Gestalt therapy Conference, Madrid, Spain
— Keynote, “Gestalt therapy and the Call of Freedom,” Conference, and Workshop, European Accredited Training Institute- Gestalt Therapy Training Institute, Malta
— Presentation, “The Fractured World: The Gestalt of the Situated Self,’ New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, NY
— Trainer, “Psychopathology of the Situation,” Istituto di Gestalt, Italy
— Presenter, Beyond Trauma, online conference
— Presenter, international Gestalt Conference for Psychology and Psychotherapy (Online) ‘
— Lecture,, Gestalt Therapy as a Clinical Phenomenology, Istituto di Gestalt, HCC

2022
Presenter, Field Perspective and Interventions in Psychology, online conference
Faculty, Institute Residential, IGW, St Arbogast, Austria
— Workshop, IGW, Munich, Germany
— Speaker, “Dialogues on Psychotherapy at the Time of Coronavirus,” Istituto di Gestalt, Italy
— Guest Faculty, Poesis, International Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology, (IPsiG), Turin, Italy
— Speaker, Conference, Kiev Gestalt University, Kiev, Ukraine

2021
Plenary Speaker, Third International Gestalt Conference, Nanjing, China
— Lecturer, Minsk Gestalt Institute Conference
— Plenary Speake, IV Interdisciplinary Congress of Gestalt Psychotherapy, “Love and the Human Condition,” Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina
— Plenary Speaker, First Conference, International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self
— Presenter Instituto Internationale di Psicopatologia e Psicoterapia della Gestalt,

2020
Lecturer, Ukraine Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Art
— Presenter. Conference on Coronavirus, Istituto Di Gestalt HCC, Syracuse, Italy,
— Visiting Faculty, Conference and Dialogue, Gestalt Therapy Institute of Malta
— Presenter, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy

2019
Lecturer and Workshop Presenter, Istituto Humanista de Psicoterapia Gestalt, Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico
— Featured Speaker, Development of Gestalt Therapy Conference, Istituto Di Gestalt HCC, Mondelo, Italy,
— Presenter. European Association for Gestalt Therapy Conference, Budapest, Hungary

2018
— Presenter, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy Conference. Toronto, Ca
— Distinguished Gestalt Visitor, Gestalt Associates of Los Angeles European Summer Training Program, Serock, Poland
— Weekend Workshop, Centro Gestálico de Peru, Lima, Peru
— Lecture and Workshop, Istituto Humanista de Psicoterapia Gestalt, Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico

2017
— Guest Faculty, Gestalt Relacional Peru, Lima, Peru

2016
— Plenary Respondent, Presenter, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy/European Association of Gestalt Therapy Joint International Conference, Taormina, Italy

2014
— Presenter, weekend workshop, Gestalt Therapy Institutes Valencia, Spain
— Faculty, Instiut Residential. Institut Fraçais de Gestalt-Théraie and Institut Beige de Gestalt-Thérapie, Angers, France
— Workshops,International Faculty, Istituto Humanista de Psicoterapia Gestalt, Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico

2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004
— Presenter, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy Conferences

2016, 2013, 2010, 2007,2006
— Presenter, European Association for Gestalt Therapy Conferences
— Weekend Training, Istituto Di Gestalt HCC, Syracuse, Italy,

Affiliations

2019-
— Guest Faculty, European Accredited Training Institute- Gestalt Therapy Training Institute, Malta

2010
— Present, Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Somatic Studies, New York, New York

2010
— Present, Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Somatic Studies, New York, New York

2005-Present
— Adjunct faculty, Gestalt Associates of New York

1989-1992
— Faculty supervisor, Gestalt Therapy Institute

1987-1993
— Consultant, educational curriculum development, Gay Men’s Health Crisis

1986-1994
— Faculty, Department of Education and Division of Professional Education, Gay Men’s Health Crisis

1984-1986
— Instructor, “An Introduction to the Theory of Gestalt Therapy,” seminar, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy

1984
— Presenter, Independent trainer and faculty, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy

Webinars

2018 to Present
— “Phenomenology and Gestalt Therapy,”  “Perls, Hefferline and Goodman (PHG) as the theory of reference for Field-emergent Gestalt Therapy.”

2000 to Present
— “Classical Gestalt Therapy from a Relational Perspective” from before 2016 to the present and in Spanish “Terapia gestalt clássica y contemprańea desede una perspectiva relactional” (in translation) from 2016 to 2018.

Publications

Forthcoming
“Predatory and Affective Violence, “with Michele Gecele, Giovanna Silvestri, …Dvoric,  Gestalt Review
“’Siri do you love me?” Reflections: AI and Gestalt Therapy.” Gestalt Review
“Response to Panelists,” chapter in Beyond Trauma, edited Gianni Francesetti, Michela Gecele, and Gianni Nebbiosi
“Field Perspectives in Relational Psychoanalysis, Response to Donnel Stern, chapter, Field Perspective in Clinical Practice, edited by Gianni Francesetti, Michela Gecele, and Paolo Migone

2023
“Evolutions and Developments of an institute at its source: the NYIGT,” Rivista di Psicotherapia. GTK. n. 10

2022
“Introduction: ‘Just what has this to do with the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy?’ in The History, Theory and Community of Gestalt Therapy: Exploring the New York Institute, by Vaclav Pfeifer-Mikolasek,
“To Hold the Hands that Hold our Hands: Responsivity of Contacting” in, Cole,
Peter H., ed. 2022. The Relational Heart of Gestalt Therapy: Together in the Therapeutic Process. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.  Pp 74-81
“An Afterword, a coda – a pause, to consider, Afterword,: Fundamentals of Phenomenological-Gestalt Psychotherapy: A Light Introduction, by Gianni Francesetti

2021
“Be Careful Where You Step. . . here and there…”, UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners Newsletter
“From the Night Before Being: Contacting the Other in Gestalt Therapy,” Gestalt Review. 

2020
“Intentionality of Contacting – Weaving the Fabric of Relationality,” The Humanistic Psychologist 48 (4) 389-396
“Archimedes’ Lever – Philosophy and Psychotherapy – the tool of thought.” Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft  10 (1)

2019
“From Sentience to Sapience: The Awareness-Consciousness Continuum and the Lifeworld,” Gestalt Review, 23 (1)
“Neither from the ‘inside’ looking ‘out’ nor from the ‘outside’ looking in,” Psychopathology and Atmospheres: Neither Inside Nor Outside, Francesetti and Griffero, eds., Cambridge Scholars Pub
“Gestalt Therapy and Phenomenology: When Parallel Lines Cross,” in Handbook for Theory, Research and Practice in Gestalt therapy, 2^nd edition, ed. Phil Brownell

2018
“Evil the sight that cannot be seen,” in The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the boundary in a desensitized world.
“Response to Donna Orange’s Plenary Address, ‘My Other’s Keeper, Resources for the Ethical Turn in Psychotherapy,’” in The Aesthetic of Otherness:
meeting at the boundary in a desensitized world
“Contact Interruptions, with Karen Humphrey, Gestalt Review,22(1)

2017
“Il continuum consapevolessa-cosienze e l’amnbiente come mondo-della-vita, La terapis della Gesalt compie una svolta fenomenologica,” Quaderni di Gestalt

2016
“Gordon Spare that Tree….” Gestalt Review
“The Relational Function of Self— self functioning on the most human plane,” in Self, a polyphony of contemporary gestalt therapists, (ed) Jean-Marie Robine

2015
“Re-Thinking Mania as a Tool to Revise Some Gestalt Concepts: Brainstorming in Emails between Michele Gecele and Dan Bloom,” in Absence is the Bridge Between Us 

2013
“Situated Ethics and the Ethical World of Gestalt Therapy,”
in Gestalt Therapy in Clinical Practice, G. Francesetti, Gecele, Roubal,(eds)
“Foreword,” Healing Perception, Des Kennedy
“Commentary III: ‘Therapeutic Democracy’“ Gestalt Review

2012
“One Good Turn Deserves Another… an essay on The Relational Approaches of Gestalt Therapy.” Gestalt Review 
“Sensing Animals/Knowing Persons: a challenge to some basic ideas in gestalt therapy” in Advances in Theory and Practice, Talia Bar-Yoseph Levine, Ed

2010
“Foreword,” Gestalt Therapy, Guidebook for Mental Health Professionals, Philip Brownell, Springer Verlag 
 <“In Search of Gestalt Therapy Group
Process, (revised)” Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges.  Vol 3, No 1.

2009
“The Phenomenological Method of Gestalt Therapy: Revisiting Husserl,” Gestalt Review, 
“Commentary I: “Let’s Go Round Again: Response to Gaffney’s ‘Cycle of Experience Re-Cycled’”, Gestalt Review,
“In Memoriam,” Richard Kitzler,” Gestalt Review,
“Forward,” Eccentric Genius: An Anthology of the Writings of Richard Kitzler, Master Gestalt Therapist, Anne Teachworth

2008
“New Feet Were Asked to Fill Another’s Shoes…, (AAGT Keynote Address),” British Gestalt Journal.
“In Search of Gestalt Therapy Group Process,” in Beyond the Hot Seat Revisited, Bud Feder and Ruth Jon Fred, (Eds).

2007
“Phenomenological Method,” (with Todd Burley) in Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy, Phil Brownell, Ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
“Preface,” Panic Attacks and Postmodernity, Gianni Francesetti and Michele Gecele, ed., FrancoAngeli*

2005
“Laura Perls: the Aesthetic of Commitment,” British Gestalt Journal
“Laura Perls in New York,” The International Gestalt Journal, 28

2004
“The Emergence of Foundational Gestalt Therapy,” International Gestalt Journal,

2003
“Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright,” in Creative License: the Art of Gestalt Therapy, eds, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb and Nancy Amendt Lyon (Eds.), Springer Verlag

1990
“The Song of the Self: Language and Gestalt Therapy – Words of Fire, Words of Stone,” Gestalt Journal, 1995

Books

2018
The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the boundary in a desensitized world, (co-editor)

2014
The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy in the 21st
Century, An Anthology of Published Writings Since 2000 co–edited with Brian O’Neill

2011
Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now,,co-Edited with Phil Brownell