CNPS 365 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy, Introjection

• School: UBC
• Department: Counselling Psychology
• Course: CNPS 365
• Professor: Deepak Mathew

Document Summary

Main goal of therapy: to get the clients who are constantly in the process of becoming, remaking and rediscovering him/herself to broaden their awareness of their experiences. You want clients to reconcile polariies and dichotomies within themselves and proceed toward the reintegraion of all aspects of themselves. The role of the therapist is to help clients idenify the most pressing issues, needs, and interests and to design experiments that sharpen those igures or to explore resistances to contact and awareness. Gestalt therapists are encouraged to be appropriately self-disclosing, both about their here and now reacions in the therapy hour and about their personal experiences. Main assumpion/ view of human nature: when people become aware of what"s happening around them, they can self-regulate. *clients are expected to do their own seeing, feeling, sensing and interpreing, instead of waiing passively for the therapist to give them insights or answers.