Gestalt Psychology

what does Gestalt means?

• focuses on the assumption that the environment determines an individual's behavior

• the uniqueness of every individual

• "a structured, meaningful unity that stand out against a background in the organism/ environment field"

• each individual have inherent resources that enable us to deal with whatever life brings

who are the people established Gestalt Psychology?

• Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler

• Sigmund freud and Carl Jung

• Ludwig Binswanger and Viktor Frankl

• Robert Carkhuff and Thomas Gordon

Who is the person that established Gestalt movement in California?

• Edward Thorndike

• Rollo May

• Carl Rogers

• Fritz Perls

Gestalt counseling stresses the role of personal _________ in the development of awareness and the experiencing of feelings.

• choice

• responsibility

• experience

• belonging

How many techniques does a Gestalt Psychology has?

• 5

• 10

• 8

• 12

What technique is this?

• Owning the Projection

• Hot Seat

• Resentment Expression

• Double Chairing

• Resentment Expression

• Double Chairing

• Use of "I" statements

• The exaggeration technique

What technique is this?

therapists have clients exaggerate a word, phrase, or nonverbal behavior that is believed to hold some hidden meaning.

• "I" statements

• role reversal

• exaggeration technique

• Hot seat

client takes ownership of such projections

• "I" statements

• Hot seat

• Resentment Expression

• Owning the projection

in expressing this, a person becomes unstuck and work through unfinished business.

• Owning the projection

• "I" statement"

• Resentment Expression

• Awareness exercise