PSY 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gestalt Therapy, Fritz Perls
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There are many experiments within gestalt therapy that evokes the phenomenon, the client has an experience then they were with the counselor regarding what just happened tell them how they should feel. Being aware of who you are- not being in denial about anything. There are parts of you are denying and we have to work to become a. It is the counselor"s jobs to help the client become aware so they can look at the flip side through other people"s vantage point. When you try to block anything it becomes a defensive behavior and it"ll. With gestalt, let it stand alone and go with the flow. Never compare theories or thearpies wholesome person. become unfinished business. Key factors of gestalt: continuation of experience, here and now, experiments, authentic encounter, process oriented diagnosis, language. We are looking at feelings that are not fully experienced and they interfered with affective contact.