Welcome to the Psychology and Training Center 'Gestalt Approach'.
"Look at the person the way you would look at a sunset or at mountains.
Take in what you see with pleasure. Take in the person for his own sake. After all, you would do that with the sunset also. Chances are you wouldn’t say,
'This sunset should be more purple' or 'These mountains should be taller in the centre. You would simply gaze with wonder. So it is with another person. I look without saying, ‘His skin should be more pink’ or ‘His hair should be cut shorter’. The person is. The creative process begins with one’s appreciation of what is there-the essence, the clarity and the impact of what is around us."
Zinker, 1977
"The
Gestalt Therapeutic Approach is a branch of Humanistic Psychotherapy.
The founder of this approach was Fritz Perls, a German
neuropsychiatrist. Pers created a new branch of psychotherapy together
with this wife and partner, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman. He called it
Gestalt therapy. Gestalt therapy takes elements from the work of such
pioneering psychotherapists as Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis, Wilhelm
Reich’s physical psychotherapy , Karen Horney and Harry Stack
Sullivan’s transpersonal psychoanalysis, K. Lewin’s field theory and J.
Moreno’s psychodrama. Laura Perls, who studied under the
theologian-philosopher Martin Buber, made a substantial contribution to
Gestalt therapy with insights from Existentialism and Phenomenology.
Another source that influenced Fritz Perls was the research in
experimental psychology, particularly the ground-breaking work carried
out on human perception by K. Koffka’s team (1887-1941). In
order to explain what Gestalt therapy means, Fritz Perls employed the
symbolism of the triangle, whose sides are made of three pieces of
wood: if we separate its three parts, the triangle ceases to exist.
Gestalt is the “whole” that exists only thanks to its interdependent
parts. The aim of Gestalt therapy is to help the individual to
expand, discover and experience the folds in his personality. It seeks
the incorporation of these different aspects of the individual. In this
way, people can help each other to become what, in reality, they are.
This completeness of our experience helps in the course of our lives. Over
the past fifty years, the Gestalt therapeutic approach has become an
established part of the curricula of universities in Europe, the United
States and Australia. It is now known in Brazil and Mexico and has been
proven particularly effective in both individual and group
psychotherapy."
Text from the book of Toula Vlachoutsikou
¨Suddenly Memory Began to Remember¨ Ed. Medousa, Athens 2005.
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