1. Interdisciplinary approach to violence against persons with disability: philosophical analysis of the gestalt psychotherapy Josip iri, Information Sciences Dept. Zadar University

2. for every finite set of points exists an unfinite set of curves that contains them any set of data may be explained by infinite number of theories 3. Starting points Philosophy as conceptual engineering Psychologism reduction of social to psychological phaenomena Analogue to polar coordinate system Two-way transfer psychotherapy-philosophy Mapping violence against persons with disabilities using gestalt-psychotherapy 4. Two-way transfer 5. Gestalt psychotherapy Gestalt is an organized field of data. Foreground is determined by dominant need with which the organism is dealing. Organism is the totality of the person. Contact cycle explanatory model of normal and pathological experience and behavior. Authenticity and I-Thou relationship 6. Transfers into GPT Kurt Goldstein gestalt psychology (!) figure / background Kurt Lewin's field theory Wilhelm Reich Psychoanalysis Freud, Adler, Jung (duality) Jan Smuth holistic understanding of organism; eating Jacob Moreno's psychodrama Zen budhism Martin Buber I/Thou relationship 7. Gestalt contact cycle 8. Mapping violence Contact cycle pathology and behavior Rage masking emotion Experiencing violence duality either victim or aggressor The roots of violence: subject or constelation? Persons with disabilities a different kind of victims?