Gestalt Therapy

Question 1

Who are the founders of Gestalt Theory?

Answer 1

Fritz and Laura Perls

Question 2

What freelance intellectual co-authored Gestalt Therapy with the Perls?

Answer 2

Paul Goodman

Question 3

Term: view in which the individual is a self-regulating entity

Answer 3

Holism

Question 4

Term: view that the individual must be understood within the environmental context

Answer 4

Holism

Question 5

Term: People cannot be understood without understanding their field or context

Answer 5

Holism

Question 6

Term: movement toward balance; a dynamic process between the person and environment

Answer 6

Homeostasis

Question 7

The field is composed of mutually ___________ elements.

Answer 7

Interdependent

Question 8

Term: boundary within the field that connects people with one another, as well as maintains separation

Answer 8

Contact Boundary

Question 9

Term: being in touch with what is emerging in the here and now, moment to moment (Gestalt)

Answer 9

Contact

Question 10

Term: focusing attention on what one is in touch with in situations requiring this attention

Answer 10

Conscious Awareness

Question 11

What is the main goal in Gestalt Therapy?

Answer 11

Awareness and Meta-Awareness

Question 12

Technique within Gestalt Therapy focused on trying something new in order to increase awareness

Answer 12

Experimentation

Question 13

What two terms in Gestalt Theory replace the concepts of conscious and unconscious?

Answer 13

Figure and Ground

Question 14

The Gestalt term for conscious

Answer 14

Figure

Question 15

The Gestalt term for unconscious

Answer 15

Ground

Question 16

Components of pathology according to Gestalt Theory

Answer 16

1: Inability to form clear figures of interest and be aware
2: Failure/Inability to respond when aware
3: Lack of fluidity between polarities
4: Boundary disturbances

Question 17

Gestalt Pathology: connection is repeatedly blocked, contact needs are not attended to

Answer 17

Isolation

Question 18

Gestalt Pathology: the ability to withdraw from connection is blocked and one loses their experience of separate identity

Answer 18

Confluence

Question 19

Gestalt Pathology: things are taken in without awareness, so are not integrated into organismic functioning

Answer 19

Introjection

Question 20

Gestalt Pathology: occurs when something within oneself is falsely attributed to another in order to avoid awareness

Answer 20

Projection

Question 21

Gestalt Pathology: intolerance of one’s own desires, so turn against the self

Answer 21

Retroflection

Question 22

Term: in direct contrast to boundary disturbances (Gestalt)

Answer 22

Assimilation

Question 23

Term: experiencing what is taken in, deconstructing it, keeping what is useful to the self, and discarding what is not useful

Answer 23

Assimilation

Question 24

Define a good gestalt

Answer 24

The perceptual field is organized with clarity and good form, so that meaning is clear in the relationship between the figure and ground

Question 25

The more a patient tries to become what he is not, the more he stays the same

Answer 25

Paradoxical Theory of Change

Question 26

Gestalt Techniques

Answer 26

Focusing
Enactment
Imagery
Body Awareness
Loosening and Integrating

Question 27

Transference within Gestalt Therapy

Answer 27

Feelings would be encountered in light of the figure/ground relationship where the subjectivity of both the patient and therapist would be valued