Gestalt is a German word meaning shape or form. The word also bears connotations to creativity (Gestaltung). In English gestalt refers to the concept where an entity's properties cannot be discovered from the total properties of its parts. The more general English equivalents are synergy, holism, emergence, and variations on the phrase "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts". In psychology, Gestalt can refer to: Gestalt psychology (Gestalt theory), and Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy

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Gestalt therapy - General description Gestalt therapy - Principal influences Gestalt therapy - Being human
Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation
Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases
Gestalt therapy - Actuality Gestalt therapy - Attention Gestalt therapy - Responsibility
Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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The practice of Gestalt therapy is based firmly in the personal experience of both the client and the therapist; furthermore, Gestalt therapy is based on an elaborate theory that developed over many years since the 1940s. Consequently, the following points can give no more than a rough impression. Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole. The human being is seen as an indissoluble entity; we cannot work with the mind without also taking account of the body. The two are closely related with, for example, particular e ...

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Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - General description, Gestalt therapy - Principal influences, Gestalt therapy - Being human, Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole, Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt, Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries, Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation, Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases, Gestalt therapy - Actuality, Gestalt therapy - Attention, Gestalt therapy - Responsibility, Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools, Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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Holism (from holos, a Greek word meaning whole) is the idea that the properties of a system cannot be determined or explained by the sum of its components alone. The word, along with the adjective holistic, was coined in the early 1920s by Jan Smuts. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Smuts defined holism as "The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the ...

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Holism - Responses to holism Holism - Holistic healing

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Visual perception is one of the senses, consisting of the ability to detect light and interpret (see) it as the perception known as sight or naked eye vision. Vision has a specific sensory system, the visual system. There is disagreement as to whether or not this constitutes one, two or even three distinct senses. Some people make a distinction between "black and white" vision and the perception of colour, and others point out that vision using rod cells uses different physical detectors on the retina from ...

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Visual perception - The visual system Visual perception - Sources of information Visual perception - Individual and group differences in visual perception Visual perception - Theoretical perspectives in the study of visual perception
Visual perception - Unconscious inference Visual perception - Gestalt Visual perception - Ecological psychology
Visual perception - Types of visual perception Visual perception - Disorders/Dysfuntions

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Barry Stevens is the name of the following people: Barry Stevens, an American Gestalt therapist Barry Stevens, an American choreographer, actor and director living in The Netherlands Other related archivesBarry Stevens, Gestalt therapist

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Claudio Naranjo is a Chilean-born anthropologist and psychiatrist who is noted for his inter-disciplinary work with mind-altering substances, as well as the Enneagram and Gestalt psychotherapy. He is considered a major figure in the Human Potential Movement and the Fourth Way movement. Category: Chilean people Other related archivesChilean, Chilean people, Enneagram, Fourth Way, Gestalt psychotherapy, Human Potential Movement

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In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. However, this succession must contain change of some kind and be perceived as a single entity (possibly gestalt) to be called a melody. Most specifically this includes patterns of changing pitches and durations, while most generally it includes any interacting patterns of changing events or quality. "Melody may be said to result where there are interacting patterns of changing events occurring in ...

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There are some famous people named Brentano or von Brentano: August Brentano, bookseller Bernard von Brentano, novelist Christian Brentano Clemens Brentano, poet and novelist, brother of Bettina von Arnim (b. Brentano) Franz Brentano, philosopher, influenced phenomenology and gestalt psychology Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, politician (CDU) Lorenz Brentano, politician Lujo Brentano, economist, reformer Maximiliane Brentano, befrien ...

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The Human Potential Movement came out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and was formed to promote the cultivation of extraordinary potential believed to be largely untapped in most people. The movement is premised on the belief that through the development of human potential, humans can experience an exceptional quality of life filled with happiness, creativity, and fulfillment. A corollary belief is often that those who begin to unleash this potential will find their actions within society to be directed towards help ...

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Human Potential Movement - Roots Human Potential Movement - Relationship to other fields Human Potential Movement - Esalen Human Potential Movement - Criticism Human Potential Movement - Notable figures

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The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. First appearing in Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, Spearhead from Space in 1970, they were the first monsters on the show to be presented in colour. Autons are essentially life sized plastic dummies, animated by the Nestene Consciousness, an extraterrestrial, disembodied gestalt intelligence which first arrived on Earth in hollow plastic meteorites. The name comes from "Auto Plastics", the company that was infiltrated by the Nestenes and subsequently manufact ...

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Auton - History Auton - Other appearances Auton - Appearances

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Carl Stumpf (21 April 1848 - 25 December 1936) was a philosopher and psychologist. He studied with Franz Brentano and Rudolf Hermann Lotze. He had an important influence on Edmund Husserl, the founder of modern phenomenology, Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka, co-founders of Gestalt psychology, as well as the renowned Austrian novelist Robert Musil who was his doctoral student. Stumpf is also credited with the introduction in current philosophy of the concept of state of affairs (Sachverhalt), which was la ...

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Gestalt therapy (Gestalt, Gestalt Psychotherapy): Holistic approach cofounded by psychiatrist Fritz (Frederick) Perls (1893-1970), M.D., and Laura Perls. It shares little with Gestalt psychology (configurationism).

Gestalt therapy theory posits five personality layers. According thereto, one reaches the death layer when blocked feelings and psychic energy condense and knot, and the life layer through the release of blocked energies. The aim of Gestalt therapy, which includes dreamwork, is to help clients achieve wholeness.

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The term cognition (Latin, cogito: to think) is used in several different loosely related ways. In psychology it is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that argues that the mind has internal mental states (such as beliefs, desires and intentions) and can be understood in terms of information processing, especially when a lot of abstraction or concretization is involved, or processes such as involving knowledge, expertise or learning for example are at work. It is also used ...

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Cognition - Cognition in mainstream psychology
Cognition - Influence and influences
Cognition - Cognitive ontology Cognition - Cognition as compression Cognition - Cognition as a social process Cognition - Cognition in a cultural context
Cognition - Example of emergent organization
Cognition - Summary Cognition - Related fields

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The school of Gestalt therapy was co-founded in the late 1940s to early 1950s by Fritz & Laura Perls, both of whom were originally traditional psychoanalysts; and Paul Goodman, a political writer and anarchist. The seminal work was Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality, published in 1951; co-authored by Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, and Ralph Hefferline (a university psyc ...

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Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - General description, Gestalt therapy - Principal influences, Gestalt therapy - Being human, Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole, Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt, Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries, Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation, Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases, Gestalt therapy - Actuality, Gestalt therapy - Attention, Gestalt therapy - Responsibility, Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools, Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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The goal of Gestalt therapy is to facilitate the removal of obstacles that lie between a person and the utilization of their full potential. Gestalt therapy's techniques and attitude create a space in which the patient can recover his or her capacity for living. In this way a person can learn to be aware of the self and aware of his or her interactions with others, living in the moment and assuming responsibility for their actions. For Perls, the appropriate experience, further on from the whole explanation or possible ...

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Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - General description, Gestalt therapy - Principal influences, Gestalt therapy - Being human, Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole, Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt, Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries, Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation, Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases, Gestalt therapy - Actuality, Gestalt therapy - Attention, Gestalt therapy - Responsibility, Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools, Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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Although Max Wertheimer is credited as the founder of the movement, the concept of Gestalt was first introduced in contemporary philosophy and psychology by Christian von Ehrenfels (a member of the School of Brentano). The idea of Gestalt has its roots in theories by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Immanuel Kant, and Ernst Mach. Both von Ehrenfels and Edmund Husserl seem to have been inspired by Mach's work Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen (Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations, 1886), in formulating their very similar concepts of Gestal ...

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Gestalt psychology, Gestalt psychology - Origins, Gestalt psychology - Theoretical framework and methodology, Gestalt psychology - Prägnanz, Gestalt psychology - Relationship to gestalt therapy

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The investigations developed at the beginning of the 20th century, based on traditional scientific methodology, divided the object of study into a set of elements that could be analyzed separately with the objective of reducing the complexity of this object. Contrary to this methodology, the school of Gestalt practiced a series of theoretical and methodological principles that attempted to redefine the approach to psychological research. The theoretical principles are the following: Principle of Totality - The cons ...

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Gestalt psychology, Gestalt psychology - Origins, Gestalt psychology - Theoretical framework and methodology, Gestalt psychology - Prägnanz, Gestalt psychology - Relationship to gestalt therapy

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Holism, especially in its metaphysical varieties, is controversial. Many scientists and philosophers regard some of these claims as unfalsifiable or less meaningful than holism's proponents do. Others see them as incorrect or as pseudoscience. Some forms, however, like epistemological and confirmation holism, are mainstream ideas in contemporary philosophy. Similarly mainstream, complexity theory (sometimes referred to as "complexity science", such as at the Santa Fe Institute), comprises a holistic, 'top-down' approach towards unders ...

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Holism, Holism - Responses to holism, Holism - Holistic healing

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Holism, especially in its metaphysical varieties, is controversial. Many scientists and philosophers regard some of these claims as unfalsifiable or less meaningful than holism's proponents do. Others see them as incorrect or as pseudoscience. Some forms, however, like epistemological and confirmation holism, are mainstream ideas in contemporary philosophy. Similarly mainstream, complexity theory (sometimes referred to as "complexity science", such as at the Santa Fe Institute), comprises a holistic, 'top-down' approach towards unders ...

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Holism, Holism - Holism in sociology, Holism - Responses to holism, Holism - Holism in science, Holism - Holistic healing

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