Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
THERAPY
(a class discussion)
ANITA F. ALISACA JOSEFINA P. DEJORAS
MA Clinical Psych Professor
March 2009
GESTALT THERAPY
Frederich (Fritz) Perls developer of
Gestalt Therapy
(with Laura Perls & Paul Goodman)
Principles of Proximity
Principles of Closure
Reversible Figure-
Ground Image
GESTALT THERAPY THEORY OF PERSONALITY
Gestalt therapy maintains there is no
meaningful way to consider any self-
regulating living organism apart from its
interactions with the environment,
making contact as an integrated aspect
of all experiences, in fact experience
does not exist without contact, and it is
contact between humans that dominates
the formation and functions of our
personalities.
4 Major Concepts:
1. Entity of the Organism –(organismic self-
regulation) the organism is an ordered
whole, intrinsically self-regulating
individual, seeking growth towards
maturity and the fulfillment of its nature.
Gestalt Techniques:
-Body Awareness
-Experimentation
-Role Playing
-Empty-Chair Technique
-Psychodrama
-Language Modification