In December’s issue of the scientifique magazine «Epoché», Despoina Balliou wrote an article on "Intersubjectivity of Experience in Gestalt Therapy".

Mrs. Balliou analyzed the intersubjectivity as foundation and as a main principle of the philosophical method of phenomenology, as firstly used by Edmund Husserl first (1931), founder of phenomenological thinking, and how the intersubjectivity significantly affected the phenomenological thinking of a philosophers- phenomenologists generation.

Based on this analysis, Mrs. Balliou explained how the concept of intersubjectivity is at the core of the theory of Gestalt therapy mainly because Gestalt therapy is a relational and phenomenological approach.

The phenomenological approach, as first pillar of Gestalt therapy, trying to understand human existence and consciousness.

Moving to the second pillar of Gestalt therapy, field theory (Lewin, 1952), we will find the notion of intersubjectivity experience as well. According to the field theory, we are not isolated nor passive recipients of the external world. We are always "in the field", constantly interacting with our surroundings, affecting and affected by it.

Finally, the third pillar of Gestalt theory, the existential dialogue, supports intersubjectivity experience. As mentioned in the text, according to Buber (1970), there is no Self without the Other. There is the ego function relational "I-It" and the ego function relational "I-You". The "I" is not alone, people are in a relational dynamics that affects the sense of the Self ( "I").

The scientific magazine Epoché, is the result of a collaboration between the three companies, the Greek Company Phenomenological - Existential Analysis and Psychotherapy, the Greek Company Existential Psychology, and the Greek Center Focusing.