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Gestalt Therapy Flashcards

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  • We are then born-called an Organism
  • The organism interacts in the context of Total Environment
  • The organism responds to environment around it; there is no isolation for the organism (we are affected by our environment).
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Structure of the Personality

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  • People are born with needs : Biological, Social, Psychological
  • Living is the progression of needs we seek to meet and resolve
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Structure of Personality

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  • The organsim can become aware of the self “I am the self, and here I am”
  • The self exists in relation to others “I am me, you are you, that is a chair, etc”
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Structure of the Personality

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*We inhibit a field-we are born into what we perceive as a field.

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Structure of the Personality

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  • Properties of things
  • Variables of life
  • Elements of the essence of life
  • are things in life that we either pay attention to or we ignore
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Fields

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*are experienced and perceived through the concept of figure/ground relationships.

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Fields

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  • An experienced whole; a complete pattern.
  • Emerges as a figure dominates the field of impressions
  • Meaning is made by relating that figure to the field (the background) by which it is perceived.
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A Gestalt

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  • The field is differentiated by different boundaries-think of it as a quilt
  • The contact boundary is being in touch with the here and now.
  • THERE IS NO EXPERIENCE WITHOUT CONTACT.
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Structure of the Personality

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  • The lifeblood of growth, the means for changing oneself, and one’s experience of the world.
  • The relationship between me and others
  • Involves feeling a connection with others or the world while remaining separate from it.
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What is Contact?

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  • Is the thing that distinguishes ones person or one aspect of that person from an object, another person or another aspect of oneself.
  • Body boundaries, value boundaries, familiarity boundaries, and expressive boundaries.
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A Contact Boundary

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  • From the self and fields, we go to self and boundaries.
  • The contact boundary is how the infant relates to the world (establishes identity).
  • The self develops through how one experiences themselves in relation to the environment.
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Structure of the Personality

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  • We use contact boundaries to make connections but also to maintain Separateness.
  • Connecting meets the needs we talked about in the first slide.
  • Separateness creates autonomy.
  • This is Balance!
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Structure of the Personality

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*So, differentiated contact of connection and autonomy promotes healthy identity!

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Structure of the Personality

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*We go through life seeking-needs, need reduction, need to be whole, need to be integrated and a NEED FOR CLOSURE.

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Function of the Personality

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*Seeking balance and self regulation.

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Function of the Personality

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  • We try to address needs through an ordered process of experience.
  • We self-regulate those needs and wants.
  • These needs are in order of importance (a hierarchy).
  • The primary need is addressed, then we move to the next one.
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Function of the Personality

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  • This process requires discrimination of needs
  • WE must be aware; we identify and own what one senses, feels, observes, needs, wants, and believes- it must be in our AWARENESS.
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Function of the Personality

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  • Begins when an organism moves from a state of rest to a state of interest.
  • Interest is a focused awareness of a need.
  • WE perceive in unified wholes. Perception (a key word) occurs when a figure of interest emerges from the background.
  • KEY: THE FIGURE MAY BE A WANT, FEELING, THOUGHT, SENSATION, ETC.
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The Gestalt Cycle

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  • Need is acted through contact. Through contact, the organism(person) satisfies the need.
  • Organism takes in nourishing experiences, rejects that which is not.
  • Then, rest, until next need surfaces
  • Life is a continual succession of Gestalt Cycles
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The Gestalt Cycle

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*The organism must be able to differentiate between the foreground and background. One must be present, aware, supported, and utilize creative adjustment.

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Gestalt Cycle to be satisfying…

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  • SUPPORT-both self support and environmental support.
  • Resources and experiences in environment promote growth through support (they can block it too.)
  • Anxiety is excitement minus support
  • Only in the present can you get support
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Function of the Personality

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  • To form clear figures, discriminate needs, and provide resolution.
  • Focus on immediate experience (cognitive, affective, etc.)
  • Background is out of awareness
  • Background reflects current conflicts
  • Neurotic people relegate some important aspect to the background-unfinished business
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Present Awareness

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  • There is the “I” of the “I” “Thou” and the “I” of the “I” “It.”
  • Life is relational
  • Conceptualize the “I” in its reaction to its environment.
  • Perceive the environment through the eyes of the “I”
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Role of the Environment

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  • Infants have self-regulation
  • Adjust internal needs to changes in environment
  • People can develop as fully as the environment will allow. When one feels safe and supported, one can increase awareness and address and resolve in the present.
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Role of the Environment

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  • Awareness of self and boundaries-to be in contact

* To be in the present!

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Healthy Functioning

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  • Phony. Pattered responses.
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Unhealthy Functioning Layer 1

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  • Phobic layer-an avoidance of psychological pain.

* We may not want to admit that a relationship is over.

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Unhealthy Functioning (Layer 2)

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  • Afraid to change.
  • Marriage where there is no more love.
  • Little Support
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Unhealthy Functioning-Impasse-stuck

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*swallowing what is given, no review

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Unhealthy Functioning-Contact Boundary Disturbances (Introjection)

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*disown aspects of ourselves by giving them to others

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Unhealthy Functioning-Contact Boundary Disturbances (Projection)

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*doing to ourselves what we want to do to another

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Unhealthy Functioning-Contact Boundary Disturbances (Retroflection)

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*avoidance of contact-person who does not get to the point, overly polite, talking polite, talking constantly

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Unhealthy Functioning-Contact Boundary Disturbances (Deflection)

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*When boundary with oneself and others becomes muted, happens with strong need to be accepted

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Unhealthy Functioning-Contact Boundary Disturbances (Confluence)

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  • When one becomes what he or she is, not when they try to become what they are not.
  • Explore client’s wishes
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How Change Occurs

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*A view of themselves or an old problem

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How Change Occurs (Discovery)

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*Learn there are choices

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How Change Occurs (Accommodation)

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*Try out the new options

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How Change Occurs (Assimilation)

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*experience our feelings, and start to become aware of the real self, but do little with the feelings

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How Change Occurs (Implosive Level)

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*Authentic and without pretense. This is to be truly alive and without pretense.

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How Change Occurs (Explosive Layer)

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  • Client/Therapist both in the present, and fully present.
  • Want to change
  • Boundary problems…open to feedback
  • Non-defensive
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Conditions Necessary for Change

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  • To become more aware
  • To be ready to learn
  • Support the self
  • Contact with sensations
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Role of the Client

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*Appropriate for individuals who are inhibited. (Overly socialized or feel restrained or constricted in some way)

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Capacity for Change

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  • Comfortable in old ways
  • Turned off by the therapist
  • FEAR
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Source of Resistance

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  • Fully present
  • Aware of Boundaries
  • Aware of the Layers…
  • Try exercises
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Role of the Counselor

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  • To grow
  • Self-responsibility
  • Self-actualization
  • AWARENESS- of the body, feelings, wants, values, mind, experiences, sensations, experience power (STOP WHINING!)
  • RESPONSIBILITY
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Goals of Counseling

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  • Good therapeutic relationship
  • Attuned to the client’s experience
  • Genuine/Understanding
  • Supportive to the client and supportive to the self
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Relationship with the Client

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*What are you aware of now?

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Specific Techniques (Awareness Statements)

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*Repeat a behavior-notice behavior; exaggeration

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Specific Techniques (Emphasizing Awareness)

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*Redirecting you and it to I

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Specific Techniques (Awareness through Language)

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*Expression of a person at a given moment; more attuned to what they are saying; spontaneous; they match people who are integrated

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Specific Techniques (Awareness through Non-verbal Behavior)

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*becoming the other person; take on feelings and affect

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Specific Techniques (Awareness of Self and Others)

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*Discover what it is that is important in the environment

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Specific Techniques (Enhancing Awareness of Feelings)

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*That which is not integrated (two chair method)

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Specific Techniques (Awareness through Self-dialogue)

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*Dramatizing some part of the client’s existence is the basis (feel like a dog, act like a dog)

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Specific Techniques (Awareness through Enactment)

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*Relive the dream, reenact it.

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Specific Techniques (Awareness through Dreams)

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*Put individuals in an area that prevents blocking

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Specific Techniques (Homework)

Counseling Theories 2014 (6 decks)

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