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Gestalt Therapy Text: Chapter 10

Gestalt Therapy Text: Chapter 10. Upstate. The word “gestalt”. Wholeness Completion Gestalt psychologist studied perception The whole is greater than the sum of its parts Perceptual system strives for completion and closure

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Gestalt Therapy Text: Chapter 10

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  1. Gestalt TherapyText: Chapter 10

  2. Upstate The word “gestalt” • Wholeness • Completion • Gestalt psychologist studied perception • The whole is greater than the sum of its parts • Perceptual system strives for completion and closure • At any given time, certain things are figure (prominent, stand out) and other things are ground.

  3. Upstate The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

  4. Upstate Striving for completion and wholeness Proximity Closure Continuity Similarity

  5. Upstate Figure-ground effect

  6. Upstate • Perls: Gestalt therapy – Individuals seek balance/equilibrium through awareness • In humans, our awareness determines our sense of what’s right for us. Similar to OVP • Awareness - gives us a sense of direction and motivation to become more fully who we are.

  7. Upstate • Awareness - identifies our most pressing need and gives us options (choice) in determining how to meet our needs • “Awareness is curative.” • If we can become fully aware of sensations, feelings, perceptions, and behavior then we can integrate these better.

  8. Upstate Lack of awareness and neurosis • Phony layer - pretend to be something we are not, play games • Phobic layer - avoid recognizing aspects of ourselves, prefer to deny, fear of rejection, humiliation • Impasse layer - we are stuck, don’t think we can do anything differently • Implosive layer • Explosive layer • The neurotic lacks awareness, self responsibility, and self regulation.

  9. Upstate What causes neurotic development? • Infant needs environmental support • Freeing ourselves from environmental support is life’s greatest challenge • Others want to tell us what to be - they use the stick or hypnosis • We/children face dilemma - letting others do for us and tell us what to do and be so we won’t experience frustration OR staying with the frustration and learning to do and be what we want to do and be even though it may be difficult.

  10. Upstate • Perl’s believes that children are “stuck” when they are spoiled and do not experience sufficient frustration • Spoiled children use resources to control the environment so they won’t have to grow and change and do that which is hard • They play games, ex. helpless, to manipulate others to do for them what they think they can’t do for themselves • They want environmental support when they need to be self supporting and self regulating • We must stop playing roles and games and actualize our potential.

  11. Upstate Other things neurotics do: • Live in the past • Retrospective character, many regrets an unfinished situations • Live in the future where we fantasize and worry about what might happen • Prospective character, can’t stop worrying, must plan, plan, plan, worry, worry, worry • Worrying and planning are a form of thinking which can be carried to an extreme. Stop! Come to your senses and experience the present moment • We must live fully in the present. The here and now is the only reality we have. We must live fully each moment.

  12. Upstate What was Perls trying to make Gloria AWARE of in the therapy session? • What are you doing, feeling, sensing right now. Focus on nonverbals –body, gestures • Frustrate Gloria – motivate her to find lost potential • Do not explain- provide opportunities for her to discover herself • Awareness of inconsistencies. Do not have to cover up your fear with a smile • Awareness of games • How she avoided because of fear. Could not get beyond impasse.

  13. Upstate • Awareness of polarities: closeness-distance. want respect/don’t deserve respect love/hate, good me/bad me, hard working/lazy, top dog (what one thinks one should do)/ underdog (what one wants to do) • Guilt/resentment. Guilt is resentment and anger turned inward on yourself • Playing the projection – Play Perls demanding respect. What would he say. “I am you.”.

  14. Upstate Goals of Therapy • Move from environmental support to self support • Become complete and integrated due to increased awareness • Live in the present • Complete unfinished business • Become more spontaneous, live each moment as if it were a glorious moment • Take personal responsibility, become confident and assertive, realize your potential, don’t take any crap.

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