The first Gestalt diagnostic manual a field book, that can be used as well for fundamental professional trainings as for the Gestalt Therapist’s everyday’s work – designed in a brilliant layout. It is the charts that constitute the actual atlas. Their main purpose is to present complex relationships between functions in a diagrammatic fashion. They are intended as tools and can be unfolded next to the main text to which they refer.

'An important contribution to contemporary gestalt therapy. offers a clear presentation of gestalt therapy analysis. Dreitzel’s model is a further elaboration into a practical template for understanding and treating psychopathology. This book provides gestalt therapists a significant tool for understanding and deepening their work.' (Dan Bloom, Editor-in-Chief, Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges; Vice-President AAGT; fellow, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy) 'The book should be required reading for Gestalt therapy training and I recommend this workbook also to all practising Gestalt therapists.' (Peter Schulthess, President of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy, EAGT)