Love Admiration Or Safety: A System of Gestalt Diagnosis of Borderline Narcissistic and Schizoid Adaptations that Focuses on What Is Figure for the Client

She introduces the concept of an 'Interpersonal Gestalt'(IG), to describe the process by which individuals selectively attend to those aspects of the interpersonal field that relate to their deepest interpersonal wishes and fears. Greenberg suggests that Gestalt therapy field theory supplies a useful and missing interface between infant developmental models, object relations theory, and what is observable during therapy sessions. She then describes how the different personality disorders can be distinguished from each other by their characteristic way of organizing the interpersonal field.