The Dark Coil in contact with Gestalt Therapy - References

Sources, Citations and further References

Here you can find links to various sources about The Dark Coil and Gestalt therapy. It also lists the works about Gestalt therapy that I cited in the articles. I also provide a list of all the stories in The Dark Coil. For details on each single story, visit here.

To return to the opening page of this article series with links to every single entry, click here.

List of the stories that constitute 'The Dark Coil'

Novels:

1. Fire Caste (2013)
2. Legends of the Dark Millenium: Genestealer Cults (2016); later re-released together with the short-story Cast a Hungry Shadow under the thankfully less generic title Cult of the Spiral Dawn
3. Requiem Infernal (2019)
4. The Reverie (2020)

Novellas:

5. Fire and Ice (2017); also available alongside two other Coil-stories in the anthology The T'au Empire

Short stories:

6. Nightfall (2009); also available as part of the anthology Heroes of the Space Marines
7. A Sanctuary of Wyrms (2012); also available alongside two other Coil-stories in the anthology The T'au Empire or alternatively in Crusade + Other Stories
8. Out Caste (2012); also available alongside two other Coil-stories in the anthology The T'au Empire
9. The Crown of Thorns (2013)
10. Vanguard (2015); also available as part of the anthology The Omnissiah's Chosen
11. The Walker in Fire (2016); also available as part of the anthology Deathwatch: Ignition
12. The Greater Evil (2017); also available as part of the anthology Lords and Tyrants
13. Cast a Hungry Shadow (2018); available together with Fehervari's novel Genestealer Cults as Cult of the Spiral Dawn
14. The Thirteenth Psalm (2019); also available as part of the massive anthology Inferno! A Warhammer 40,000 Collection
15. Nightbleed (2020); also available as part of the Horror anthology The Accursed
16. Sins of my Brothers (2022); so far only available as part of the Space Marine anthology The Successors
17. Aria Arcana (2022); available as an eShort or as part of the Galaxy of Horrors-anthology
18. Altar of Maws (2023); only available as an eShort or as part of the five-story eShort subscription from May 2023
19. Blindsight (2024); so far only released in White Dwarf magazines issue #505 from October 2024
20. Nightshift Nineteen (2024); released as an eShort during Black Library Advent calendar 2024

Collected Editions:

• In October of 2023, Black Library released the first collected edition of Coil-stories in the form of a prestige, limited-edition box set (with the added benefit of the author making the effort of personally signing every copy and adding a puzzle of quotes scattered throughout all of the signatures). It was limited to 1,000 copies that sold out quickly, but I have hope that this points to the possibility that the publisher will at some point make a regular omnibus available for sale (whether with the same or a different collection of stories).

• And indeed, lo and behold: In October 2024, Black Library announced the upcoming release of not just one, but two Dark Coil omnibuses: Dark Coil: Damnation and Dark Coil: Ascension. Each is supposed to collect two Coil novels and more than half a dozen short stories. They are likely due for release at some point in 2025.

More to read and listen about the Dark Coil and its author

If you want to learn more about the world of the Dark Coil and get an overview of the relevant stories, a suggested reading order as well as the most important places and factions, there’s a helpful article about just that on the blog Track of Words: A Traveller’s Guide to Peter Fehervari’s Dark Coil

While I don’t provide a whole transcript of my own discussion with Peter Fehervari, there are several places on the internet where you can read or listen to the author verbatim discussing his works, his approach to writing and his perspective on the universe of Warhammer 40k.

Interviews with Track of Words:

• Track of Words: Peter Fehervari talks 40k and the Dark Coil - Part One (2018)
• Track of Words: Peter Fehervari talks Requiem Infernal and the Dark Coil - Part Two (2019)

Interviews with other fans:

• HachiSnax Interviews: Peter Fehervari Part 1 (2015)
• HachiSnax Interviews: The Second Peter Fehervari Interview (2016)
• Video interview with Russian fans The Station, 45 minutes (2019)
• Video interview with NEMO, a Russian self-published SciFi journal, 3 hours (2020) (both video interviews provided by redditor Rostislav Markelov)

Citations and Sources on Gestalt therapy

Sorted in order of my subjective estimate of their importance for my articles.

Stevens, Barry

• Don't push the river It flows by itself (1970). This was a major inspiration for the writing style of these articles and an important primer for finding my own voice and approach to these pieces. Here's a link to the Goodreads page of the book

Perls, Fritz, Hefferline, Ralph F. & Goodman, Paul

• Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality (1951)

Perls, Fritz

• Four Lectures (1971) > PDF available here

Perls, Laura

• Living at the Boundary: The Collected Works of Laura Perls (2012), which collects i.a.:

  • Some Aspect's of Gestalt Therapy (1972)
  • Comments on the New Directions (1974)
  • Concepts and Misconceptions of Gestalt Therapy (1977) > PDF available here

• An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy: An Interview with Laura Perls (1977)

Cohen, Alan

• Layers of the Neurotic Personality (2014)
• Impasse (2014)
• Comparing Basic Assumptions of Different Approaches to Psychotherapy (2014

Beisser, Arnold

• Paradoxical Theory of Change (1970)

Becker, Ernest

• Growing Up Rugged: Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy (1970)

Blankertz, Stefan & Doubrawa, Erhard

• Lexikon der Gestalttherapie (German) (2005); the website offers free access to dozens of excerpts from the German Lexikon on topics, concepts and persons that relate to Gestalt therapy

Philippson, Peter

• Contemporary Challenges in the Application of Perls' Five-Layers Model (2002), collected in Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice: A Decade of Gestalt! by Mistler & Brownell

Kayyali, Youssef John

• Therapist personal and professional experience as predictors of Gestalt therapy contact resistances (2018) > PDF available here

Yontef, Gary

• Gestalt Therapy An Introduction

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