212:,â a concept from Lewin, is a phenomenological procedure in which the therapist and client look for opportunities to explore specific attributes of the client's life space, their driving forces, and barriers. This can occur in therapy through dialogue, allowing the client to experience their feelings through speaking. The anthropological model in Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy is the belief that the therapist should not only focus on âinner componentsâ of the client, but also focus on the interaction between the client and their environment that effect their experience and behavior. The client directs his overall attention to the presence, listening inside themselves, remaining conscious, following whatever appears in the current state. Only then can the therapist focus their questions and involvement on the client's analyses of the situation.
197:, provides insight into the concept and process of Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy. The Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy therapeutic process is a relationship between two individuals in which both the therapist and client develop an egalitarian attitude. An egalitarian attitude is the concept that everyone is equal. The diagnostic process and the therapeutic process are inseparable to Gestalt theoretical psychotherapists. The therapist should act as a âfellow voyagerâ of the client, supporting them in discovering their specific and personal feelings and problems. Gestalt theoretical psychotherapists believe that an individual cannot be forced into doing things against the individual's nature; therefore, the therapist must adapt diagnostic exploration to the individual's capabilities.
763:, Darmstadt 1977, p. 170. Quote from the book: "(...) dass alle hier angefĂŒhrten Beispiele ... direkt oder indirekt gestalttherapeutischer Praxis entstammen, Die weitgehende Ăbereinstimmung gestalttherapeutischer Praxis mit gestalttheoretischen Konstrukten und Prinzipien soll anhand von Beispielen zu beiden Kategorien von Ăbungen und Techniken der Gestalttherapie (...) noch deutlich herausgearbeitet werden." / "(..) that all the examples given here ... originate directly or indirectly from Gestalt therapeutic practice. The extensive correspondence between Gestalt therapeutic practice and Gestalt theoretical constructs and principles will be clearly demonstrated by means of examples of both categories of Gestalt therapy exercises and techniques (...).â
283:," in which these phenomenal worlds are âfield events.â Notably, an individual's behaviour relies on âfield forces between the person and the environment.â Through this interaction, the world's objects can have positive or negative characters on a person, caused by various âattracting or repulsive forces.â The attracting forces attract an individual to an object while opposing forces repulse from it. The force-field theory is crucial in GTP as it underpins the understanding of variations across perceptions of situations, providing the foundation for interpreting situations and interactions.
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Gestalt therapy in general as a psychotherapy method. It must also be mentioned that Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy adopts techniques from Gestalt therapy as well as from other psychotherapy methods as Walter points out. This corresponds to the conviction in Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy that techniques and working methods from other therapy methods can be integrated into Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy as long as they are compatible with the Gestalt psychological approach and are interpreted and handled according to the basic Gestalt psychological concepts.
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space for a mutual exchange between both sides through the egalitarian attitude about their shared experience. Both parties can experience psychotherapy differently; thus, critical realism enables the psychotherapist to look at their encounter and assess the therapeutic relationship and situation critically, contributing to an open, straightforward conversation and collective coordination. This protects the client from the therapists' potential dominance and the therapist from being influenced by illusions of control and power.
109:(Gestalt Theory and Psychotherapy), which is now on its third edition (1994). The majority of the extensive literature on Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy which has been published in the decades since then is in the German language. However, in 2021, the international multidisciplinary journal "Gestalt Theory" published an issue focusing on Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, offering a series of articles in English on the essentials of this method, and in 2022
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emotions and feelings. After that, the client takes the role of the person sitting, responding to the words they said previously. Consequently, the person empathizes with the other side by coming across their feelings. This enables clients to process their struggles by approaching their situation from a broader perspective.
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GTP proposes âexperience-centred interventionsâ, such as the empty chair technique, through which the client faces direct contact with their direct experience. The client imagines someone with whom they have experienced conflict sitting on the chair. The person then speaks to the chair, sharing their
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The phenomenal world is the âinternal perceptual world of conscious experience,â i.e., a copy of the external world of objective reality constructed in the brain based on the depiction derived from the retina. Illustratively, the phenomenal world individuals face is not an actual world but a copy of
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of the physical world and all physical objects and physical organisms embedded therein.â It is trans-phenomenal as people cannot directly access it â it is theorized or constructed. Whatever one hypothesizes, says, or establishes about the trans-phenomenal world comes from interpreting data acquired
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Gestalt theory in its original sense and the Perls'ian understanding of Gestalt. With her analysis however, she restricts herself explicitly to only three of Perls' books from 1969 and 1972, leaving out Perls' earlier
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assumption,â suggesting a uniformity between physical and physiological operations and psychological processes. Isomorphism indicates that for every experienced phenomenon, there is a corresponding set of brain processes. The assumption portrays why individuals can move in the perceived environment
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positionâ on a mental and physical problem, supporting the holistic theory. From a metaphysical perspective, it takes a âdualistic positionâ distinguishing between the âtrans-phenomenal worldâ and the âphenomenal world.â The divergence between physical facts and perception was proved by
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and their senses. Stemberger points out that whatever one discovers relates to ânot only to what is descriptively encountered in the experience, such as what is seen, heard, felt, and sensed, but also to what is thought, imagined, remembered, and planned.â Referring to Kurt Lewin, a change can only
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The technique does not imply that the client's direct experience is not affected by ideas or concepts. Stemberger discusses: "all own explanations for the relationship in the world belong to the critical-phenomenal world, ... all beliefs, convictions and ideologies, including all related problems,
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the external world generated by the brain. As discussed by Tholey, physical stimuli reach our physical senses and enter our brains through neural pathways into the cerebral cortex. Köhler used the term "psychophysical level," at which the stimuli transform, resulting in a psychological experience.
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doubts and pricks of consciences." For that reason, GTP should evaluate the extent to which beliefs and theories may affect the client's perception, a judgement of the experience, and behaviour. That being the case, the therapist can diagnose the patient with minimized bias.
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GTP bases its theoretical presumptions not only on "partial theses" and "partial findings" of
Gestalt psychology, but also on the "overall system" of Gestalt Theory of the Berlin School featuring Wertheimer, Kohler, Koffka, Lewin, and others. Wolfgang Metzger and
57:, "a person's thinking, feeling, actions, perceptions, attitudes and logical operations" are seen as one unity. Many developments in psychotherapy in the following decades drew from these early beginnings, like e.g. group psychoanalysis (S. Foulkes),
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Theoretical Psychotherapy in this form has gained popularity predominately in German speaking countries. It is officially approved by the Austrian government as a scientific psychotherapy method under the Austrian Psychotherapy Act.
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Gestalt Therapy developed by Fritz Perls received criticizing views from many academic Gestalt psychology representatives, mainly from Mary Henle. Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy is related to but different from
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