Gestalt in a Nutshell
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2015
- Contemporary Gestalt therapy described in 3 minutes by Steve Vinay Gunther
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I really prefer videos like this that sum up how the therapy works. Thank you
Thank you for explaining it simply without using unnecessary terminology. Simple words work best :-)
Thank you. For me Gestalt therapy is one of the most powerful ways of moving stuck emotions and giving insight into how I can get caught in unhealthy patterns of relationship. love the video!
That is called talking with relatives, not Geshtapowhatever.
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You really broke it down in a nutshell and added more clarity to my understanding. The term, Interconnectedness, resonated with me the most. Your explanation helped me to think differently about how I will use Field Theory to frame my doctoral research and interviews for my study. Thanks!
Great to hear. Field theory is endlessly fascinating for me. Please read Malcom Parlett's classic article on Field theory.
You must be smoking some good weed to think that this is reality.
Thankyou for such a clear and concise introduction. I'm studying therapeutic arts practice and I can now see how it's influenced by gestalt therapy. This makes me want to learn more!
Glad its useful for you! I will be mounting a Gestalt teaching online, you can sign up for when it comes out: www.learngestalt.com
Therapeutic is not arts. You do not use people as parts of your exhibition.
Thanks folks. Yes, I also love the aliveness of Gestalt
Yeah, me too, when I smoke some weed.
Thankyou this is brilliantly articulated! I was looking for a quick summary to bring the concepts together for my counselling studies and this is potent. Will watch it a few times and pass it onto colleagues. Appreciate it.
Glad its useful! Very soon my new site - LearnGestalt.com will be ready, with lots of goodies. I estimate about a month
@@GestaltTherapyInternational Thanks for the update, I will put it in the diary to check in around a months time, Great information, thank you.
It is not brilliantly articulated. I got ten questions and objections. Sounded like the worst politicians mubojumbo.
Very nicely summarized. Thank you for this tool of understanding as I am developing as a young Hellerwork Structural Integration practitioner.
I heard the word on the telly and that brought me here! I love the internet!!
This is a great video
Thank you so much for sharing this.
That’s very interesting! I’m more into REBT. Thank you for your video!
Thank you!
Very helpful video. Thanks 😊
I'm a student in social work, currently taking a class in group facilitation techniques. The authors seem to use Gestalt Therapy frequently, so I came on here.
Better hold on to real science. This is bullshit. Psychology is complex and does not mean just stitching together some smart words.
Excellent. Understanding delivered in a nutshell, just as promised. Beginning to get a feel for gestalt.
Questions. If I capitalise Gestalt, would that refer to a the modality in an okay way. Is there such a conceptualised thing as "a" gestalt.
Regards the latter question, I get this sense of a gestalt as a life-event sprite. An event in its aspect of needing to be completed. A sprite in the sense that the life-event leaves something moving in you, that is an amalgam of thought and emotion and all else that move intelligently in a human being.
Nice term - life-event sprite. I like the animation quality of that term. Reminiscent of Thomas Moore's ideas in Care of the Soul. Anyway, yes, Gestalt therapy is generally capitalised in that way. And yes, there is 'a' gestalt - which means, a complete cycle, a complete form. We might say - a fully formed gestalt. Or a completed gestalt.
very powerful therapy studying at the moment
I love Gestalt , working with the here and now, not what may be , or could be , but rather focused on living
Yes, Gestalt is very Taoist in this respect.
I always think it's funny that so many people who were taught their whole lives to gather evidence through the scientific process of elimination just to piece the components together to get the concept that just comes like second nature to the rare few like myself that see the whole concept before the evidence is gathered.
You're right in the beginning of the video to say that it's a coming together of past, and present information into the present. But, based on my experience, and comparing experiences with other natural born Gestalt thinkers, if we think, or someone asks us a question, we see a whole flood of images, and word files that coalesce into a very detailed summary in a matter of seconds; it looks like a Powerpoint slide presentation is always streaming in our mind's eye.
The academic, and corporate word admires, and despises Gestalt thinkers at the same time because they can't control us, nor easily make us conform to their linear, evidence based gathering system of thoughts. Professors, teachers, bosses, admire that you have the concept, but it's a pain in the ass both to them, and to you to have to in reverse go find the evidence whether through academically cited source materials or elsewhere when everyone's still assembling that. Your superiors thus, have a harder time believing you since your mind skips over that preferred assembly line pathology (And you can thank Descartes for that hostile intellectual closedmindedness and/or snobbery towards any other thought process).
In conclusion, I don't believe any Gestalt thinker doesn't sometimes think that it's a burden they wouldn't wish on anyone. You still think it's a gift that you want to try to learn? It's not. It's only a "gift" to you because you can at least turn it off when you want, and go back to your linear evidence based thought processes. I can't turn it off.
You have summarized my feelings exactly, thank you.
doesn't everyone experience a flood of 'images and word files' when a thought is made noticeably aware of or if asked a question?
I’ve heard that gestalt has not delivered the goods and that in most cases it has been detrimental. Any comments about that? (To the professionals)
In case of unethical practise, meaning not being mindful of client's capacity to engage, level of support, etc.. and making interventions that would re traumatise the client, yes it can be harmful. But this may apply to many other modalities I assume
Emre Sen no this modality has a reputation for this.
@@hol-upLIL-bit unfortunately so, but it is not the modality itself but the therapist's lack of training, capacity, etc.. i beleive this is due to Gestalt being humanistic and demands from the therapist that he or she would be grounded and aware enough to genuinely support the client and challenge their habitual adjustments while maintaining a dose where support and creative indifference is all present at once.. it is quite a delicate craft..
Emre Sen it happened to pearls himself with gloria after a while she said she was re traumatized.
@@hol-upLIL-bit yeah That session is far from the modern Gestalt Approach where a lot of ethical and professional considerations are neglected. Perls discovered and invented the theory and practise but as his wife Laura stated, it evolved over time. But the misuse of it is quite irritating and dangerous tbh
Great 👍🏿
is this based on gestalt psychology or based on the work of Fritz perles??
Gestalt psychology emerged alongside, and influenced by the phenomenology of Husserl, so it connects to a larger tradition. The Gestalt psychologists provided the research end of that philosophy, and developed an understanding of how holism of perception functions. Fritz worked with one of the Gestalt psychologists - Goldstein, and was greatly influenced by him. What he did is take the ideas and convert them into a therapy, integrating other elements such as the work of Otto Rank, Wilhelm Reich, Martin Buber, Moreno, Smuts and other brilliant people. Fritz was a great synthesiser.
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Accept the things that have made me,,,,
...wait what?
This si the second thing i read to understand whats Gestalt and i still dont get it 😂😂
Yes, I know, its always hard to explain Gestalt. In a few sentences - here and now awareness, being with 'what is' rather than pushing the river, celebrating and meeting in difference...
How is awareness different from mindfulness?
Good question. In some ways, not so different. But mindfulness comes originally from a Buddhist context, and sometimes it is practiced as a spiritual practice. Other times, its stripped down, so its spiritual-lite, with the process of awareness, but without the spiritual philosophy that traditionally accompanies it. That makes it more digestible for westerners. Then it also now gets incorporated in various ways into various psychologies - either as an adjunct, or embedded in them (for instance, Hakomi therapy). Gestalt was developed in the 1940's and 50's, and was really one of the first therapies to incorporate an awareness based approach. Fritz was interested in Taoism and Zen, and integrated those into Gestalt. So in some ways, its far more integrated into Gestalt, than simply a modern 'add-on' ('CBT and mindfulness'). And its also embedded as a psychological practice- its not about letting go of thoughts, but of capturing awareness and using it for psychological investigation. So its a kind of mindfulness-psychological practice in that sense. Awareness is key to the core of Gestalt process, and the way its used is inviting people to be present with their experience - which of course is the essence of mindfulness. So in that sense, they are similar. But its a guided process, where as generally mindfulness is something you practice yourself.
Gestalt Therapy International thanks for such a quick response. Your definition of awareness seems closer to mindfulness as practiced in ACT than CBT where it is a guided process in therapy. I am really keen to learn more. Thanks again!
Awareness is being attentional to your senses. Taking in most of what is coming and not dismissing anything.
Mindfulness is thinking about anything and anybody involved. How my act influences anybody else.
Completely different stuff. One is a particular input processing way and the other is a particular output processing way.
@@nihorothereal mindfulness is all about maintaining constant awareness of our thoughts and physical reactions, etc. It's about staying in the present moment and not investigating the 'whys' and 'what ifs'. All we have is the present moment, so why bother looking any further?
Yuri: Yes
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0:13 We bring past, ok. We bring future - WTF?
0:30 Nothing yet about the subject matter
0:40 We do something different
0:45 Awareness, ok, that might be something
0:57 Dialogue between the leader and the patient. OK, could be valuable, though I am sceptical, as nothing about me is there yet, still sounds like preparing me for a cult. If not, what then?
1:10 Dialogue is an excuse that you are not an expert. This makes you feel ok to talk round and round and not say anything. If you are a doctor, you KNOW what you know and what you not yet know. What you not know yet, you do not give false hopes about. What you know about, you give specific statements about. When you make it a dialogue, nobody knows anything and you make false hopes. That is what sects do.
1:29 Yes, that builds relationship, trust. But based on what? Fantasy!
1:42 Therapeutic relationship is a predictor of success? Are you sure of what you say? Or is it just another softening cushion to make you more trustable. Feel good environment does not mean truth.
1:54 Field. Gestalt is about field. But you did not define what a field is. Field sounds large. Just as aura sounds holistic. Just as awareness sounds seeing everything. There are many fields. There is a potato field, maize field, magnetic field. The word is interpretable and you are using it to PLUCK people! I am not a scientist, I have emotions, so I am free to say it.
2:01 Century. Sounds important. So you try to pluck some credits for your mindpluck idea? Do you?
2:15 Give the sense of interconnectedness. Yes, absolutely. That is your goal with your ideology.
2:35 What is the interconnected focus of the field? You talk just like another politician. Say a lot but have no meaning.
2:50 We do experiment. It is fun. If you say that, you have to provide at least a tiny bit of information, what you do. That comes before the word experiment.
2:58 Bring all challenging thing into present. How do you do that? In relationship. What does that say? That you use a lot of words and have no meaning. You cheat people!
3:10 That is a gestalt in a nutshell. Yeah, just replace the word with any bad word. You have not given any explanation what so ever.
Your call next, do you have REAL and factual objections to my notes? Real, factual proof to your bullshit Alice in wonderland story?
Why are you so angry?
@@user-dg6bl2ry2y I don't like cults. They ruin peoples lives.
@@nihorothereal what's culty about gestalt therapy? Isn't a sign of a cult is your shamed for leaving or not allowed to discuss it's teachings to outsiders or skeptics? Has Gestalt ever done any of those things
@@user-dg6bl2ry2y Not the therapy itself, but the talking in this video, that sounds very similar to typical cultist talks.
I'm sorry you are so angry.
Perhaps you are a very linear thinker. That's ok! "Gestalt" is a near perfect expression of my experience as a neuro-divergent thinker.
Explanation unclear accidentally ended humanity
Don't understand your question