Chapter 8 Flashcards
Gestalt focuses on (5)
The here and now
The what and how of experiencing
The authenticity of the therapist
Active dialogic inquiry and exploration
The I/Thou of relating
Emphasizes clients making contact with their field
Gestalt
4 principles of gestalt
Holism, field theory, figure formation process, organism self-regulation
The full range of human functioning includes thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body, memories, and dreams.
Holism
Client is a participant in a constantly changing field.
Emphasis may be on a figure and on the ground
Field Theory
How an individual organizes experiences from moment to moment
Figure formation process
Emergence of a need, a sensation, or an interest disturb an individual’s equilibrium
Organismic Self-Regulation
Interacting with nature and with other people without losing one’s individuality
Contact
Boundary disturbances/resistance to contact
The defenses we develop to prevent us from experiencing the present fully
five different kinds of contact boundary disturbances (gestalt)
Introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, confluence
Unfinished business is associated with what theory
Gestalt
________ energy is a form of defensive behavior that may result in unfinished business.
Blocked (impasse)
ready made techniques used to achieve a goal (gestalt)
Exercises
Grow out of an interaction between client and therapist to increase awareness or new ways of thinking and behaving.
Experiments
A role reversal technique to bring into consciousness the fantasies of what the “other” might be thinking or feeling.
The Empty-Chair Technique
An anticipated event is brought into the present moment and acted out.
Future Projection Technique
It involves asking a person in a group to go up to others in the group and either speak to or do something with each person
Making the Rounds
As certain symptoms and behaviors often represent reversals of underlying or latent impulse a therapist could ask the client to role play
The Reversal Exercise
Key figures Erving Polster, Miriam Polster, Fritz Perls
Gestalt
Created on the premise that an individual must be understood in the context of their ongoing relationship with the environment
Gestalt
The more we work at becoming whoo or what we are not, the more we remain the same
paradoxical theory of change
Process by which equilibrium is disturbed by the emergence of a need, a sensation, or interest.
Organismic self-regulation
Prerequisites for good contact
awareness, full energy, and the ability to express oneself
When attributes of our personality that are inconsistent with our self image are disowned and assigned to another
Projection
Process of turning back onto ourselves what we would like to do to someone else or doing to ourselves what we would like someone else to do to or for us
retroflection
Blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment
Confluence
When figures emerge from the background but are not completed and resolved, individuals are left with this
Unfinished business
