Jean-Marie Robine, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist since 1967 and gestalt-therapist since 1976. After more than 15 years as a psychologist, then director, in a public health service for children, adolescents and their families, he created in 1980 the Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie (IFGT), the first Gestalt-therapy Institute created in France which, to date, has trained hundreds or maybe thousands of gestalt-therapists not only in France but also in Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, USA and Latin America. He is the author and editor of nine books on Gestalt Therapy and lives in the countryside, near Bordeaux, France.