Names:

Lina Chauta - Mercy Gaitán - Malory Monroy.

"The whole is more than the sum

of its parts"

The person has the necessary and sufficient

resources to live happy.

Fritz Perls and his wife Laura

Psychological disorders

could be in the inability of

people to integrate

successfully and

accurately the parts of

your personality into a

healthy whole .

FRITZ PERLS

The main goal of Gestalt

therapy is to get people to

unmask in front of others,

sharing about themselves,

to experience the present.

GT Works in exploring

the more emotional

territory in the person.

The aim is that the

participants become

aware of your body and

each of your senses.

GOALS

Theoretical Basis

• Husserl Epoché

• Heidegger Existencialism

• Bubber "I-Thou" or "I-You«

• Zen Phylosophy “Here and Now"

• Goldstein The Organismic Theorist

• Horney Culturalist

Idealized Image

• Rules Perception Figure Ground

Perception

Making of Consciousness

http://www.herbstevenson.com/chapters/gestalt-cycle-of-experience-chapter-2.php

Techniques

Empty-Chair Technique:

When client speaks to an empty chair as if it were

another person or another part of the client.

Used to help the client get in touch with other

views or other aspects of self.

Techniques

Making the rounds:

Go to each person in

the group and talk to

them.

Working through

unfinished business:

Any incomplete Gestalt is

unfinished business

requiring closure or

resolution. Usually take the

form of feelings or

unresolved and unexpressed

emotions.

Techniques

I take responsibility for…

Can be added to one of the client's statements. This

is a technique to make the person become aware

that it is she who decides its own behavior.

Techniques

Playing the Projection:

When an individual is unable to accept his own actions or feelings, because "should not" act or feel this way: The "should not" comes from some introject. To solve this dilemma the subject does not recognize his guilt and blames other but himself, but instead has an acute awareness of the characteristics he denies as his own in the other.

Reverse Roles:

Asking the client to do the opposite of their behaviors.

Contact/Withdrawal:

The gestalt therapy need that the client doesn't scape to the reality just we need that the client understand how and when he or she scape to the reality.

Techniques

Rehearsal Exercise:

To rehearse with the

therapist out loud.

Exaggeration Exercise:

Counselor exaggerates

mannerism of client or

asks the client to

exaggerate mannerism in

order to make the client

aware of true feelings.

May I Feed You a

Sentence?

When the therapist

believes that there is a

wrong message and

unclear, you can construct

a sentence with that

message and ask the

customer if you want to

say it aloud, for him to

hear how it sounds.

APLICATION OF GESTALT

THERAPY.

GESTALT THERAPY CAN WORK:

Individual Therapy

Couple Therapy

Family Therapy

Group Therapy

Institutions

Companies

Gestalt therapy have been addressing every

kind of people with issues like physical,

psychological, pathological, self-esteem, etc..

and without, older people, young people and

kids.

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