Gestalt Flashcards
How things go wrong: Gestalt
disruptions in awareness of self and environment
how does change happen: Gestalt
therapist attends to client’s feelings, thoughts, behaviors as they move into the client’s foreground
organismic self-regulation
humans are inherently self-regulating, we seek to maintain an overall sense of well-being
figure formation and destruction
individuals perceive the world by focusing on one aspect of the environment at a time
figure, ground
the object of focus, or a need is the ____, everything else is the _____
phenomenology
understanding the client’s experience from the client’s perspective
Martin Buber
dialogue
I-It
most common: involves intentions, task completion, goals and doing business
I-thou
rare: involves no agenda and seeks sense of connection with the other
figure formation and destruction more info
ongoing process in which individuals become aware of a need or interest and make contact with some aspect of the environment that satisfies or destroys that figure, allowing it to recede in the background
healthy functioning requires (gestalt)
awareness of self and environment
contact functions
connect with the environment in a meaningful way
Gestalt’s therapy paradoxical theory of change
paradox: you change more by being present with what is instead of trying to get to what is not
