gestalt therapy
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Names:
Lina Chauta - Mercy Gaitán - Malory Monroy.
"The whole is more than the sum
of its parts"
The person has the necessary and sufficient
resources to live happy.
Fritz Perls and his wife Laura
Psychological disorders
could be in the inability of
people to integrate
successfully and
accurately the parts of
your personality into a
healthy whole .
FRITZ PERLS
The main goal of Gestalt
therapy is to get people to
unmask in front of others,
sharing about themselves,
to experience the present.
GT Works in exploring
the more emotional
territory in the person.
The aim is that the
participants become
aware of your body and
each of your senses.
GOALS
Theoretical Basis
• Husserl Epoché
• Heidegger Existencialism
• Bubber "I-Thou" or "I-You«
• Zen Phylosophy “Here and Now"
• Goldstein The Organismic Theorist
• Horney Culturalist
Idealized Image
• Rules Perception Figure Ground
Perception
Making of Consciousness
http://www.herbstevenson.com/chapters/gestalt-cycle-of-experience-chapter-2.php
Techniques
Empty-Chair Technique:
When client speaks to an empty chair as if it were
another person or another part of the client.
Used to help the client get in touch with other
views or other aspects of self.
Techniques
Making the rounds:
Go to each person in
the group and talk to
them.
Working through
unfinished business:
Any incomplete Gestalt is
unfinished business
requiring closure or
resolution. Usually take the
form of feelings or
unresolved and unexpressed
emotions.
Techniques
I take responsibility for…
Can be added to one of the client's statements. This
is a technique to make the person become aware
that it is she who decides its own behavior.
Techniques
Playing the Projection:
When an individual is unable to accept his own actions or feelings, because "should not" act or feel this way: The "should not" comes from some introject. To solve this dilemma the subject does not recognize his guilt and blames other but himself, but instead has an acute awareness of the characteristics he denies as his own in the other.
Reverse Roles:
Asking the client to do the opposite of their behaviors.
Contact/Withdrawal:
The gestalt therapy need that the client doesn't scape to the reality just we need that the client understand how and when he or she scape to the reality.
Techniques
Rehearsal Exercise:
To rehearse with the
therapist out loud.
Exaggeration Exercise:
Counselor exaggerates
mannerism of client or
asks the client to
exaggerate mannerism in
order to make the client
aware of true feelings.
May I Feed You a
Sentence?
When the therapist
believes that there is a
wrong message and
unclear, you can construct
a sentence with that
message and ask the
customer if you want to
say it aloud, for him to
hear how it sounds.
APLICATION OF GESTALT
THERAPY.
GESTALT THERAPY CAN WORK:
Individual Therapy
Couple Therapy
Family Therapy
Group Therapy
Institutions
Companies
Gestalt therapy have been addressing every
kind of people with issues like physical,
psychological, pathological, self-esteem, etc..
and without, older people, young people and
kids.
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http://www.gestaltcolombia.com/
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(1997). Gestalt-terapia. Summus Editorial. Martín, Á. (2011). Manual práctico de
psicoterapia Gestalt. Desclée de Brouwer. Brito, M., & Castellanos, S. (2005). Formación de
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