Gestalt Therapy
Founder: Fritz Perls (1893 - 1970)
Gestalt therapy is a humanistic method of psychotherapy that takes a holistic approach to human experience by stressing individual responsibility and awareness of present psychological and physical needs.
Goal
The goal of Gestalt therapy is to raise clients' awareness regarding how they function in their environment (with family, at work, school, friends).
Focuses
The focus of therapy is more on what is happening (the moment-to-moment process) than what is being discussed (the content).
Key Points:
- The use of statments and questions to focus awareness
- Clients verbal behavior of language
- Nonverbal behavior
- Self-dialogue
- Enactment and dramatization
- Guided fantasy
- Dream work
- Awareness of self and others
- Avoidance behaviors
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