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Critical Realism: The Epistemic Position of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy [PDF]

Gestalt Theory, 2021
In this contribution, I discuss the relevance of epistemological models for psychotherapy. Despite its importance epistemology is seldom explicitly dealt with in the psychotherapeutic landscape.
Sternek Katharina
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Basic Principles for Therapeutic Relationship and Practice in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy [PDF]

Gestalt Theory, 2021
Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, in the broader sense of the term, has developed in various forms on both sides of the Atlantic since the 1920s. Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, in the narrower sense of the term, came into being in the second half of
Böhm Angelika
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Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy – A Clinical Example [PDF]

Gestalt Theory, 2021
The case of an anorectic patient is presented to demonstrate how well-known symptomatic phenomena such as a supposedly distorted body perception can be understood.
Fuchs Thomas
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Personality Theory in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy: Kurt Lewin’s Field Theory and his Theory of Systems in Tension Revisited [PDF]

Gestalt Theory, 2021
With regard to the dynamics of human experience and behavior, Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy (GTP) relies mainly on Kurt Lewin’s dynamic field theory of personality. GTP is carried out by including a re-interpretation of Lewin’s theory in some aspects
Lindorfer Bernadette
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Theoretical grounds of workshop on patient communication using Gestalt psychotherapy approach

Problemy Pielęgniarstwa
Theoretical grounds of a workshop program are based on a review of the most important principles of being in a relationship as well as on referring to specific contexts of exercises, based on theoretical concepts of attentiveness, transference and ...
Beata Ogórek-Tęcza
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Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Perspective From Traditional Chinese Medicine. [PDF]

J Hist Behav Sci
ABSTRACT In clarifying that Spinoza is not the first person to share insights about the necessity of a contrary, strong emotion in transforming an emotion, the present article focuses on expounding this perspective as embedded in the classical texts of Chinese medicine, along with illustrative examples of emotion‐focused therapy in the historical case ...
Wong WC.
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Aesthetic Diagnosis in Gestalt Therapy

Behavioral Sciences, 2017
The diagnostic process in psychotherapy using the aesthetic evaluation is described in this article. Unlike the classical diagnostic process, which presents a result of comparing clinicians´ observations with a diagnostic system (DSM, ICD, etc.), the ...
Jan Roubal, Gianni Francesetti, Michela Gecele   +2 more
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Integrating the Gestalt Model of Self With Psychedelic‐Assisted Psychotherapy

Journal of Humanistic Counseling
ABSTRACT This theoretical integration paper employs a conceptual analysis methodology to synthesize the Gestalt model of self‐as‐process with Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP). Unlike traditional psychedelic therapy models that defer therapeutic engagement to postsession integration, PSIP emphasizes an active, directive therapeutic
Travis R. Fox
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The Relational Dimension in Gestalt Psychotherapy: Epistemological and Clinical Aspects

Journal of Humanistic Counseling
ABSTRACT This article reframes Gestalt psychotherapy as intrinsically relational: experience and self‐emerge from contact at the organism–environment boundary and from the field/situation. We revisit ambiguities in the Perls/Goodman model against a brief historical background and articulate a pragmatic stance grounded in the id of the situation and ...
Pietro Andrea Cavaleri, Serena Iacono Isidoro   +1 more
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Meisner Repetition Exercises as a Tool for Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy: A Gestalt Therapy Exploration

Journal of Humanistic Counseling
ABSTRACT This article investigates the application of Sanford Meisner's pedagogical methodology for actors in the professional training of psychotherapists and counselors, with a specific focus on the role of repetition exercises within Meisner's system and their potential to enhance the competencies of gestalt therapists, psychotherapists, and ...
Tomáš Andrasik
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