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Autism in Gestalt Theory Towards a Gestalt Theory of Personality
Gestalt Review, 1999Abstract For us, who work with children and adolescents, it is very important to have a developmental Gestalt theory, as well as a Gestalt approach to psychopathology. Based on the theory of contact and the self, I consider autism as a contact and boundary problem in which the child is caught right at the boundary.
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Gestalt theory and morbid anatomy
Virchows Archiv A Pathological Anatomy and Histopathology, 1984Contact with medical students as a university teacher has shown that there are different types of aptitude: 5/9 of German medical students possess a visual faculty, 3/9 are kinaesthetic and only about 1/9 have the gift of the auditive faculty. Apart from this, there is a general quality which may be termed gestalt perception or gestalt blindness.
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Symmetry, Gestalt and Information Theory
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1971Two kinds of patterns were made up out of crosses. The first kind was symmetrical and the second contained a sub-pattern repeated in the same orientation. Subjects were requested to reproduce the stimuli after viewing them for 2 sec. It was found that there was no difference between the two kinds of stimuli when symmetry about the horizontal axis was ...
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Gestalt Therapy in Theory and in Practice
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1984Gestalt therapy was developed by Frederick (Fritz) Perls, (1893–1970), a German psychoanalyst originally trained in the Freudian tradition; he left Germany in the 1930's for South Africa and emigrated to the United States in the immediate post-war years. Despite the publication of his book “Gestalt Therapy—Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality”
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Concerning Rashevsky's theory of the “Gestalt”
The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 1939In experiments of Kluver on monkeys and of Hertz on bees, observed reactions indicate the presence of a neural mechanism which serves to order geometric figures in a linear sequence, so that any given figure occupies a definite place in a one-dimensional array.
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Gestalt Theory: Implications for Radiology Education
American Journal of Roentgenology, 2008The Gestalt theory of modern psychology is grounded in the ideas that holistic rather than atomistic approaches are necessary to understand the mind, and that the mental whole is greater than the sum of its component parts. Although the Gestalt school fell out of favor due to its descriptive rather than explanatory nature, it permanently changed our ...
Nicholas A, Koontz, Richard B, Gunderman
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Mediation Theory and Practice, 2017
Current mediation practice lacks a coherent theory of the psychological factors that underlie interpersonal conflict and its resolution. Various models describe different ways to conduct mediation, yet there is insufficient explanation of the psychology of why and how these models often do, and sometimes do not, work. In this article, a new explanation
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Current mediation practice lacks a coherent theory of the psychological factors that underlie interpersonal conflict and its resolution. Various models describe different ways to conduct mediation, yet there is insufficient explanation of the psychology of why and how these models often do, and sometimes do not, work. In this article, a new explanation
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An interpretation of the theory of gestalt
Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 1941SUMMARY In seeking an interpretation of the theory of Gestalt, the analysis revealed that the concept of Gestalt applies to processes and particularly to the way in which events or processes take place. The essential condition for the emergence of Gestalten or configurational properties was found to be—the ability of the parts or factors in the process
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