How/can Gestalt therapy promote liberation from anti-Black racism?

Abstract: Anti-Black racism is an interruption of contact that often takes place out awareness, and continuously enacted through innumerable fixed gestalts at every level human experience. Gestalt therapy as a movement does not leverage its great potential for undoing anti-Black racism, or supporting fluid racial liberation; this article explores GT theories practices do so. I first discuss how concepts the field, ground, consciousness, can be informed by ideas such intersectionality double consciousness from Black liberation history well theorists Crenshaw, DuBois, Fanon, Freire, Lives Matter movement. then offer case example explore socialization into whiteness lead to everyday forms dehumanization white therapists. conclude with questions toward furthering work in our Keywords: race, anti-Black, Black, oppression, privilege, intersectionality, field