Gestalt therapy is a humanistic form of psychotherapy that rests upon four theoretical pillars, they are: (1) existential phenomenology, (2) field theory, (3) relational dialogue, and (4) experimentation.
The aim of Gestalt Therapy is to develop awareness and promote awareness of awareness, which reflects Gestalt therapy’s Eastern influence, and which, supports the paradoxical theory of change, Gestalt therapy’s piece de resistance. Further, Gestalt therapy’s method of preferencing process over content, reinforces the awareness and experiential work that is fundamental to effecting change in children and adults.
Sources: Beisser, 1970; Fogarty, Bhar, Theiler & O’Shea, 2016; Gestalt Therapy Brisbane, 2017; Oaklander & Oaklander, 2007; Wheeler & Axelsson, 2015; Yontef, 1993.
The aim of Gestalt Therapy is to develop awareness and promote awareness of awareness, which reflects Gestalt therapy’s Eastern influence, and which, supports the paradoxical theory of change, Gestalt therapy’s piece de resistance. Further, Gestalt therapy’s method of preferencing process over content, reinforces the awareness and experiential work that is fundamental to effecting change in children and adults.
Sources: Beisser, 1970; Fogarty, Bhar, Theiler & O’Shea, 2016; Gestalt Therapy Brisbane, 2017; Oaklander & Oaklander, 2007; Wheeler & Axelsson, 2015; Yontef, 1993.
For more on Gestalt Therapy, see Gestalt Therapy Brisbane, being the institute where I completed my training.
"Gestalt methodology combines an Eastern focus on awareness and being in the here and now, with a Western emphasis on action and doing."
- Melnick & Nevis
- Melnick & Nevis
"Learning is the discovery that something is possible."
- Fritz Perls
- Fritz Perls
