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What does Gestalten mean?

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configuration of perceptions our perception of things is what leads to conflict

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Unfinished business (Gestalt concept)

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unexpressed emotions from the past

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Fritz Perls-Gestalt Therapy

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The person is born with capacity to cope with life. The childs development is interferred with and must introject, project, retroflect, repress, and suppress instinctual strivings to be normal.

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What do you feel from confluence

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harmony and possibly confusion of where the other person left off and if it was actually where you left off

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Unresolved awareness

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issue (constructive) v problem (destructive) conflict

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T/F: a goal of gestalt therapy is to reorganize our life script

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true

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What is the goal of gestalt therapy?

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restructure awareness of where your emotions are coming from and if you are in a confused state or not be in the here and now awareness of self and world enter our own mental processes and become one with them

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The self refers to awareness of?

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self processes, thoughts, emotions, feelings, etc

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What is mental baggage claim?

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past has mental baggage that comes out as unfinished business (can be with anything)

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The world refers to awareness of?

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things going on around you that are identified through your senses

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Conflict resolution

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Don reflecting on how he felt about his issues after enactment

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Assumptions of Psychoanalysis

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relies on memory (FA, babbling on, may not be accurate) identifies trauma to account for problems (content that explain fixation) cause and effect goal is understanding

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Is "Should" or "Want" more powerful?

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want

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What is the major question involved?

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not WHAT has led to now HOW events influence the process of living as it emerges (HERE and NOW) 3 levels of awareness

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What is conflict?

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study notes or hang with friends

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What do you feel from retroflection?

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guilt

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T/F: The first step of Gestalten is to create awareness of things like conflict from unfinished business and Gestalten

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true

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Dream analysis

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can be projections

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What is the realm of fantasy?

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thinking about the past or future with no relation to the here and now brain conjures up images of past and future

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Introjection

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integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into one's own ego structure this is a type of socialization

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T/F: Unfinished business create conflict.

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true

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What are the confusions of perception?

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where are we? not in the moment inrojection projection retroflection confluence

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Background of Perls-Gestalt theory

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was a major fan of freud until he realized PA didn't work that well

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Neurosis pathology

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spend time in one place too much

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Give some examples of introjection

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you're mad because your friend is mad at you mother is in pain because child is in pain

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What subjects will be on exam 2?

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What are the 3 levels of awareness?

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self (internal) world (external) realm of fantasy

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What is it called when you relate the future and past to the present moment?

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planning this is adaptive

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T/F: "Should" is the top dog

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true

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How do you become aware of conflicts that run your life and cause problems?

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one example in the video was Don talking to his top dog and underdog

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T/F: The top dog is self-righteous

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true

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Retroflection

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act of doing to yourself what you really wish to do to someone else

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Enactment

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Don talking to both side of the perception of should and want

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T/F: a goal of Gestalt is to finish unfinished business, making them whole or complete

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true

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Gestalten

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figure-ground see things or perceive them two ways creating conflict

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Anxiety pathology

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feeling of concern we have that gets us from now to future

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Confluence

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blending of awarenesses

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What feeling do you get from introjection

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Any feeling the other person may be feeling... this could be guilt, anxiety, anger, etc

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A key concept of Gestalt therapy is

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focus on the present

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What are the types of pathology in gestalt theory?

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neurosis anxiety guilt unresolved awareness unfinished business gestalten

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Guilt pathology

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based on anger that you retrospect back to yourself

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Gestalt therapy

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resolve unresolved awareness (1 & 2) A. awareness B. Enactment C. Conflict resolution D. Dream analysis

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T/F: Resolving conflict changes a problem to an issue

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true

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Assumptions of Gestalt Therapy (Fritz Perls)

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mature individuals take responsibility for their own life life is emerging all that exists is now

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What % of time do we spend in the realm of fantasy?

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70%

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Example of retroflection

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parents won't buy you the car you want and this leads to feelings of resentment towards yourself instead of your parents

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Projection

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disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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