"Editor’s Note: We are pleased to be publishing this very informative interview with Jean-Marie Robine, a distinguished Gestalt thinker, writer, and practitioner in France. He created Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie in 1980. His current practice is in Bordeaux and he teaches Gestalt therapy ‘in Europe and all over the world, from Moscow to Mexico and the Indian Ocean’. He founded the two French Gestalt journals and is on the editorial board of Cahiers de Gestalt-thérapie, Gestalt Review, and the new International Gestalt Journal. He has written many articles, a number of which have been translated in other languages. His latest book, The Unfolding Self, will appear very soon in English (translated by Gordon Wheeler for Gestalt Press/Analytic Press). In this interview, he reflects on the beginnings of his Gestalt career, and the various influences on him – especially that of Isadore From. He reflects on some central Gestalt concepts, notably self and field; on Gestalt therapy and its development in France; and how his practice has evolved over time. The interview culminates with a fascinating discourse about differentiation of the field, with Jean-Marie remarking that what he would like to do, as frequently as he could, would be ‘to short-circuit the premature intervention of personality-function and to create confusion, “undifferentiation” or “pre-differentiation”’. Jean-Marie Robine can be contacted at Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie, 87 cours d’Albret, 33000 – Bordeaux, France. Email: jm.robine@wanadoo.fr (IFGT : www.gestalt-ifgt.com)."