Gestalt therapy focuses on increasing awareness of one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in the present moment. Therapists use experiments, role-playing, empty chair dialogue, and exaggeration exercises to help clients fully experience their emotions. The goal is for clients to accept responsibility for themselves and reintegrate disowned parts of their identity, thereby promoting change. Key concepts include phenomenology, existentialism, awareness, and addressing unfinished business from the past in the here-and-now.
This is an introduction to Gestalt Therapy, invented by Fritz Perls, presented by Glenn Berger, PhD. I learned the method at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in New York, under the auspices of Alan Cohen. I cover the discovery of Gestalt, contrasts to analysis, Field Theory, Figure/Ground, Contact Boundary, the Need Cycle, Layers of the Personality, Awareness, I/Thou, existential phenomenological method, and the goals of Gestalt therapy.
This is an introduction to Gestalt Therapy, invented by Fritz Perls, presented by Glenn Berger, PhD. I learned the method at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in New York, under the auspices of Alan Cohen. I cover the discovery of Gestalt, contrasts to analysis, Field Theory, Figure/Ground, Contact Boundary, the Need Cycle, Layers of the Personality, Awareness, I/Thou, existential phenomenological method, and the goals of Gestalt therapy.
Presented during the Psychology Congress, Lyceum of the Philippines, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, October 8, 2009.
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Person-centred therapy, also known as person-centred or client-centred counselling, is a humanistic approach that deals with the ways in which individuals perceive themselves consciously, rather than how a counsellor can interpret their unconscious thoughts or ideas.
The core purpose of person-centred therapy is to facilitate our ability to self-actualise - the belief that all of us will grow and fulfil our potential. This approach facilitates the personal growth and relationships of a client by allowing them to explore and utilise their own strengths and personal identity. The counsellor aids this process, providing vital support to the client and they make their way through this journey.
Presented during the Psychology Congress, Lyceum of the Philippines, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, October 8, 2009.
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Person-centred therapy, also known as person-centred or client-centred counselling, is a humanistic approach that deals with the ways in which individuals perceive themselves consciously, rather than how a counsellor can interpret their unconscious thoughts or ideas.
The core purpose of person-centred therapy is to facilitate our ability to self-actualise - the belief that all of us will grow and fulfil our potential. This approach facilitates the personal growth and relationships of a client by allowing them to explore and utilise their own strengths and personal identity. The counsellor aids this process, providing vital support to the client and they make their way through this journey.
Humanistic approach talks about human potential which can only be harnessed by an individual by focussing on internalization and subjective knowledge for this world for the attainment of self-actualization or true potential by fulfilling the needs as per the hierarchy of importance.
In dealing with problems in life, there's a more humanistic type of psychology called the Gestalt therapy. Read to know more about this effective approach.
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2. “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to
live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to
live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we
find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.”
-Frederick Salomon Perls
3. Gestalt
• 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.
4. Theory of Personality
• A person exists by differentiating self from other & by
connecting self & other
• These are the two functions of a boundary
• The boundary between self & environment must be
permeable to allow for exchanges, yet firm enough to
enable autonomous action
• When the boundary becomes unclear, lost, or impermeable,
mental & emotional disturbance results.
6. Key concepts of Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy is another type of counseling that is based
upon the existential framework. Key elements include:
• Phenomenological Basis
You are seeking to focus on the client's perception of reality
• Experiential
The client is being asked to come to understand about what
and how they are thinking, feeling, and doing as they interact
with the therapist and the other people in the world.
7. Key concepts of Gestalt Therapy
• Existential
The person is to take responsibility for their destiny and
identity
• Awareness
A key element in this theory is helping the client come to an
awareness of what he or she is doing and experiencing
• The Now
Our "power is in the present. The only moment that is
significant is the present. For many people the power of the
present is lost
8. Key concepts of Gestalt Therapy
• Unfinished Business
Feelings about the past are unexpressed
For Example: hatred, pain, anxiety, grief etc. These feelings
are associated with distinct memories & fantasies
Result:
Unexpressed feelings can result in physical symptoms
For Example: Preoccupation, compulsive behavior & self-
defeating behavior etc.
So Gestalt therapists emphasize paying attention to the
bodily experience.
9. Gestalt View of Human Nature
• Gestalt's basic understanding of the human being is that
people can deal with their problems, especially if they
become fully aware of what is happening within oneself
and outside of oneself
• Change happens in a person's life when he or she can
reintegrate a disowned part of the self back into the mix of
identity
• Gestalt is a process of "reowning" parts of the self that have
been disowned
• Change takes place when a person is more aware of who
and what he or she is.
10. Paradoxical Theory of Change
The paradoxical theory of change suggests that when people
allow themselves to be fully aware and in touch with who
they currently are, change and growth then emerge as the
inevitable and natural outcome of such contact and genuine
self knowledge.
11. • Living with "masks" and does not promote change
• Problems begin when a person tries to be who or what he
or she isn't
• In fact it promotes stagnation of the personality
• According to Gestalt, the more a person tries to be who
they are not, the more they stay the same.
12. Therapeutic Goals
• Move towards increased awareness of themselves
• Gradually assume ownership of their experience
• Develop skills and acquire values that will allow them to
satisfy their needs without violating the rights of others
• Become more aware of all of their senses
• Learn to accept responsibility for what they do, including
accepting the consequences of their actions
• Move from outside support toward increasing internal
support
• Be able to ask for and get help from others and to give to
others
13. Therapist's Function and Role
• Therapist encourages the present time, Bring the past into
the present by re-enacting it in the present.
• Therapist should focus on the "what" & "how" of a person
without asking the "why" questions. This is to promote an
awareness of the moment
• Questions such as "What is happening now?" or "What are
you feeling in this moment?" are used to intensify the
experience of the present & create awareness
Why" questions lead only toward rationalizations and "self-
deceptions" away from the immediacy of the moment
• Pay attention to the client's body language.
• Focus on the language
14. Therapeutic Methods/ Techniques
• Experiments
The therapist designs experiments to increase the client's
awareness of what he or she is doing, experiencing, and how
he or she is doing it.
• Role-play
Role-play can help individuals to experience different
feelings and emotions and better understand how they
present and organize themselves.
15. The empty chair technique
• The therapist encourages dialogue between the empty chair and person in
therapy in order to engage the person's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
• Sometimes the roles are reversed and the person in therapy assumes the
metaphorical person or part of a person in the chair. The empty chair
technique can be especially useful for helping people become mindful of
the whole situation and forgotten or disengaged pieces of their own self.
• He or she is asked to imagine that someone (such as a boss, spouse, or
relative), they, or a part of themselves is sitting in the chair.
16. Exaggeration exercise
• During this exercise, the person in therapy is asked to
repeat and exaggerate a particular movement or
expression, such as frowning or bouncing a leg, in order to
make the person more aware of the emotions attached to
the behavior.
17. • Dialogue
A gestalt therapist will need to engage the client in meaningful and
authentic dialogue in order to guide them into a particular way of
behaving or thinking. This may move beyond simple discussion to
more creative forms of expression such as dancing, singing or laughing.
Discussing dreams
Dreams play an important role in gestalt therapy, as they can help
individuals to Understand spontaneous aspects of themselves. Fritz
Perls frequently asked clients to relive his or her dreams by playing
different objects and people in the dream. During this they would be
asked questions like:
• 'What are you aware of now?" to sharpen self-awareness.
18. Attentiontobodylanguage
Throughout therapy, a gestalt therapist will
concentrate on body language, which is considered a subtle
indicator of intense emotions. When specific body language
is noticed, the therapist may ask the client to exaggerate
these movements or behaviors.
This is thought to intensify the emotion attached to the
behavior and highlight an inner meaning.
19. Topdog - Underdog
A commonly utilized Gestalt technique
is that of the topdog-underdog dialogue. This
technique is used when the therapist notices
two opposing opinions/attitudes within the
client. The therapist encourages the client to
distinguish between these two parts and play
the role of each in a dialogue between them
(Patterson, 1986).
The tyrannical "topdog demands that
things be a particular way while the 'underdog
plays the role of disobedient child. The
individual becomes split between the two sides
struggling for control
20. Fantasy
Fantasy is used in Gestalt Therapy to increase clients' self-
awareness of their thoughts and emotions and to bring about
closure to unfinished business (Seligman, 2006).
21. Applications
• It can be applied as a long-term therapy or as a brief and
focused approach.
• Originally Gestalt Therapy was predominantly used to treat
individuals who were anxious and depressed and who
were not showing serious pathological symptoms.
• Personality disorders such as borderline personality
disorder.
• Managing tension
• Addiction
• Post-traumatic stress
• It is also effective in counseling groups, couples, and
families.
• Overall, people who participate in gestalt therapy tend to
feel more self-confident, calm and at peace with
themselves.