Category: Gestalt
Somatic therapy – working with the body in psychotherapy
in GestaltThis article offers a guide for therapists to work with the whole body. For some of the philosophical roots of this practice you can check this article focused on Merleau-Ponty’s body phenomenology. — Somatic therapy brings together both the cognitive and physical sides of our existence through the anti-Cartesian proposition that our thinking-verbal and affective-non-verbal…
The Gestalt cycle of experience
in GestaltThe Gestalt cycle of experience is a model in Gestalt therapy originally developed by Perls to show the process of organism/environment interaction by which we organise ourselves to accomplish our goals (e.g satisfying hunger, making friends, finding a Post Office). It serves as a map of each singular experience as a sequence of events in…
Boundaries in Gestalt
in GestaltGestalt is an existential-phenomenological model of therapy that places focus on human experience. Boundaries are the different areas in which this experience happens, making it a key concept in Gestalt therapy. In “The emergent self” Peter Philippson gives an overview of three different boundaries. Using these concepts we can evaluate our experiencing at these three…
