Here Now Next is the first scholarly account of the origins of Gestalt therapy, told from the point of view of one of its chief theoreticians, Paul Goodman, by a man who knew him well. Stoehr describes both Goodman's role in establishing the princ

At the Crossroads. Fritz and Lore Perls. Bones to Pick with Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill. Writing Gestalt Therapy. The Intellectual Tradition. The New York Institute and Its Founders. Goodman the Therapist. "Can Anything Be Salvaged from All That Effort?" Gestalt and Politics in the Sixties. "My Only Son Fell Down and Died." A Memorial Service for Fritz . Neither Guru nor Sacred Text: The Gestalt Way.

Taylor Stoehr, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, is Paul Goodman's literary executor and biographer. In addition to editing over a dozen volumes of Goodman's work, he has written five books and numerous articles on literary figures such as Dickens, Hawthorne, Lawrence, and Thoreau, as well as cultural studies of utopian communities and other "counterculture" experiments of nineteenth-century America.