About Me

Shea Stevens

Shea Stevens, M.S., LPC is an independent scholar and therapist living in Texas, USA. She found Merleau-Ponty through the concept of the gestalt and the influence of Kurt Goldstein and the gestalt psychologists on Merleau-Ponty’s work. She has a B.A. in Theology from the University of Dallas and a M.S. in Counseling from the University of North Texas.

She enjoys writing, asking questions, and thinking abstractly. Besides gestalt, her interdisciplinary philosophical interests include physics, theories of complexity and emergence, Aristotelian hylomorphism and related Greek and Scholastic thinkers, and the existential-phenomenological family tree.

Shea wrote the book: “Form Theories: From Aristotle to Merleau-Ponty.” It traces the concept of form in Merleau-Ponty back through the gestaltists and scholastics, to the hylomorphism of Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias.