Gestalt therapy

GESTALT THERAPY

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GESTALT

• "I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.” --Fritz Perls
• - Gestalt is a German word which refers to the total shape of something.
• - A gestalt, or whole, both includes & transcends the sum of its parts.
• - It cannot be understood simply as a sum of smaller, independent events.
• Gestalt means - a structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena, to constitute a functional unit that is non-derivable by summation of its parts.
• The proposer of Gestalt Therapy is Fritz Perls (1893-1970) / wife Laura Perls (1905-1990)

Gestalt therapy is a client-centered approach to psychotherapy that helps clients focus on the present and understand what is really happening in their lives right now, rather than what they may perceive to be happening based past experience. Instead of simply talking about past situations, clients are encouraged to experience them, perhaps through re-enactment. Through gestalt process, clients learn become more aware how their own negative thought patterns and behaviors are blocking true self- awareness and making them unhappy.

• Gestalt therapy is a client-centered approach to psychotherapy that helps clients focus on the present and understand what is really happening in their lives right now, rather than what they may perceive to be happening based past experience. Instead of simply talking about past situations, clients are encouraged to experience them, perhaps through re-enactment. Through gestalt process, clients learn become more aware how their own negative thought patterns and behaviors are blocking true self- awareness and making them unhappy.
• It is a process psychotherapy where gestalt therapists are more interested in the process as a whole, rather than individual events or experiences.
• Gestalt therapy aims of improving one's contact in community and with the environment in general. This goal is achieved through aware , spontaneous and authentic dialogue between client and therapist.