Chapter 8- Gestalt Therapy Flashcards
Paradoxical Theory of Change
Constantly moving between who we should be and who we are
Gestalt
Interested in the whole person, place no superior value on a particular aspect of the individual
Field Theory
The organism must be seen in its environment, or in its context, as part of the constantly changing field
Figure
Those aspects of the individual’s experience that are salient at any moment
Ground
Those aspects of the client’s presentation that are often out of his/her awareness
Figure-formation process
Tracks how the individual organizes experience from moment to moment as some aspect of the environmental field emerges from the background and becomes the focal point of the individual’s attention and interest
Organismic self-regulation
A process by which equilibrium is distributed by the emergence of need, a sensation, or an interest
Contact
Seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and moving
Introjection
Tendency to uncritically accept others’ beliefs and standards without assimilating them to make them congruent with who we are
Projection
We disown certain aspects of ourselves by assigning them to the environment
Retroinflection
Turning back onto ourselves what we would like to do someone else or doing to ourselves what we would like someone else to do for us
Deflection
The process of distraction or veering off, so that it is difficult to maintain a sustained sense of contact
Confluence
The blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment
Phenomenological inquiry
Paying attention to what is occurring now
Impasse
Occurs when external support is not available or the customary way of being does not work
