Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy, based on the experiential ideal of "here and now," and relationships with others and the world. Drawing on the ideas of humanistic psychology, the school of Gestalt therapy was co-founded by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s-1950s. It is related to but not identical to Gestalt psychology and the Gestalt psychology-based Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy of Hans-Juergen Walter. Gestalt therapy - General description. The school of Gestalt therap ...

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• Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases
• Gestalt therapy - Actuality
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• Gestalt therapy - Responsibility
• Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools
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organismic psychotherapy (humanistic body psychotherapy): Spinoff of Reichian Therapy developed by Malcolm Brown, Ph.D., and Katherine Ennis Brown, in Europe.

Its theory divides human anatomy into four dynamic Being Centers of the embodied soul:

(1)           The Agape-Eros Being Center consists of the upper frontal portion of the body and mediates feelings of openness toward others.

(2)           the Hara Being Center, the abdominal portion of the body, permits self-love.

(3)           The Logos Being Center, the upper dorsal portion of the body, has unfathomable intuitive faculties.

(4)           The Phallic-Spiritual Warrior Being Center, which consists of the lower back and the limbs, enables resoluteness (perseverance).

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Reichian Therapies (Reichian-based therapies, Reichian-oriented therapies): Variety of regression methods whose theories share Wilhelm Reich's concept of character armoring (muscular-emotional armoring). The expression character armor refers to all the attributes one develops as blocking against emotional excitation.

The results of character armoring include bodily rigidity and deadness. Reichian-oriented therapies include bioenergetics, core energetics, organismic psychotherapy, and Radix. (See Reichian Therapy.)

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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 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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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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