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"...A must for any serious student of Gestalt therapy. It contains seminal material that evolved into the theoretical framework set forth by Perls, Hefferine, and Goodman in Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality published ten years later in the United States." from the back cover.

The submerged personality is one in which the ego is replaced by an introjected parental self. Needing their parents for security, these patients give up their own perceptions of reality and accept the reality imposed by their parents. The psychotherapy necessary to effect introject dispersion is described in this book.