About

I’m a Gestalt psychotherapist and visual artist living in Paddington Sydney. I’m a Member of GANZ (Gestalt Australia and New Zealand) and work with individual clients and with couples – often as joint therapist with my wife Amanda Gruhn (Karima). See our joint psychotherapy site Therapy Duo.

I’m interested in the cross-over between psyche and art – hence the Art+Psyche category you’ll see in my posts. Art as an energy system, something that people can’t help but do…

My own art works appear from time to time – and you’ll find them in the My Gestaltung category. I’ve taken the term gestaltung (or “configuration”) from Hans Prinzhorn, one of the first psychiatrists to collect the art of the “insane”. He used the term gestaltung because he wasn’t so interested in aesthetic judgements being applied to the works, but was more interested in what they expressed of the person. (Not that I’m claiming any insanity on my part, but I love the idea of an artistic work being a trace of a configuration of psychic content.)

From time to time I post photos I’ve taken using the trusted Nikon D50 D700 (in the Photo category). See also my views albums. The blog’s header photo I took early one spring morning on the Monaro highway, south of Canberra. There are more Monaro images here: Monaro April 2006 and Monaro Oct 2006.

During 1993 to 2006 I made quite a lot of work, and some of this is on my “old” rondowd.com art site.

You can contact me using the contact page.