The focus is on the "here and now" rather than on past experiences, although, once clients have become aware of the present, they can confront past conflicts or unfinished business what Perls referred to as incomplete Gestalts.
The 44 years that followed were, in a sense, an "interim age: a post-war parenthesis, the unfinished business of a conflict that ended in 1945 but whose epilogue had lasted for another half century".If the first world war destroyed old Europe, the second, Mr Judt believes, created the conditions for a new, non-ideological Europe.
They need each other when it comes to their legacies and the unfinished business of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the related Arab-Israeli conflict.
The nurses saw that patients could need help to alleviate death anxiety, achieve peace and reconciliation with God and/or family, settle practical affairs and unfinished business, set their homes in order, and resolve family conflicts and worries.
"Zaide," a fragment of an unfinished two-act singspiel, sets a young slave couple in conflict with their sultan.
It is clear that conflict continues to hinder basic human development with the result that the MDGs are an unfinished agenda in the places that need them most.
Without question, improving the rights of women helps "resolve conflicts and stabilize societies" and, in an increasingly interconnected global community, it's quite possibly our greatest unfinished business (p. 562).
There is clearly unfinished work from the MDGs to be carried forward into the next iteration of global development: fragile and conflict-affected states are least likely to achieve their goals, and most vulnerable in a transition to new goals [ 2].
"Unfinished Debate on Iraq" (editorial, Jan . 13 cites the "serious inability of American civilian agencies" to meet Iraq's post-conflict needs.
This unfinished quality fits these unfinished lives.
