Gestalt Psychology
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Too Many Things At The Same Time
Gestalt psychology aligns with mindfulness in many areas, including the fact that it sees trying to do more...
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Understanding Obsessions With Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt psychology is useful for conceptualizing obsessions of all kinds. In Gestalt, we differentiate between the foreground, or...
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Empty Chair
The empty chair is a therapeutic intervention that came out of the Gestalt tradition, although it is now...
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Unfinished Business
In Gestalt psychology when any aspect of your life is left hanging we call it unfinished business. This...
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Forgive And Remember
The expression ‘forgive and forget’ is a poor way to make amends. It runs against a key psychological...
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Needs Satisfaction Cycle
Here is a graphic of the Gestalt needs satisfaction cycle. In Gestalt theory, a lot of distress and...
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Confluence In Gestalt
Confluence is the last resistance in the needs satisfaction cycle and occurs between the stages of closure and...
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Devaluation In Gestalt
The resistance that occurs between contact and satisfaction in the needs satisfaction cycle is called devaluation. When you...
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Deflection In Gestalt
The resistance between action and contact in the needs satisfaction cycle has been called a few different names....
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Retroflection In Gestalt
The Gestalt resistance between the stages of mobilization and action in the needs satisfaction cycle is retroflection. This...
