Research: Gesalt Theraphy

extracted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy

Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy which emphasizes personal responsibility, and focuses upon the individual’s experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person’s life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation.

Edwin Nevis, co-founder of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, founder of the Gestalt International Study Center, and faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, described Gestalt therapy as “a conceptual and methodological base from which helping professionals can craft their practice”.[1] In the same volume, Joel Latner stated that Gestalt therapy is built upon two central ideas:

that the most helpful focus of psychotherapy is the experiential present moment, and that everyone is caught in webs of relationships; thus, it is only possible to know ourselves against the background of our relationships to others.[2]