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The fact that our minds are able to make meaning out of objects or figures that are not fully perceived explains what?
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Section 1
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The fact that our minds are able to make meaning out of objects or figures that are not fully perceived explains what?
the concept of closure
Can you disconnect a person from their environment?
no you cannot
What promotes our growth as people?
differentiated contact
Which therapist tries to keep the client in the feeling they are experiencing in the moment?
Fritz
The balcony example from class demonstrated what?
the you in the now looking back on the you from the past & then the you from the now splitting off into a you viewing from afar & it all tying together to give you a whole image of yourself
Gestalt therapy has clients focus on the present to create what?
internal awareness
Introjection takes place when:
we uncritically accept others' beliefs & standards without assimilating them to make them congruent with who we are
In Gestalt therapy, the therapist tries to get the client to focus on what?
the here and now
Truly being oneself is referred to as being:
authentic
One should surrender to:
who they are right now
The idea that everything is inevitably interrelated & mutually dependent on each other is derived from:
human nature & holism
In personality, contact is important, but with:
a line of boundaries
Confluence consists of:
blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment
In the phenomenological perspective, awareness is demonstrated by:
helping people stand back from their typical way of thinking
To become psychologically mature, we must pull of these five layers:
phony - phobic - impasse - implosive - explosive
What is organismic self-regulation?
our creative adjustment to the environment
Fritz aimed to help clients take _______________ in/of their life.
responsibility
What is the figure-ground concept in Gestalt therapy?
prior experiences constitute the background (ground) against which the individual figures a present experience - in which the person's most pressing need becomes figured
What is the phenomenological perspective?
awareness
Why must we always self-regulate?
because we are always shifting focus
What is considered contact in Gestalt therapy?
meeting with various kinds of others - forming a figure of interest against a ground within the context of the organism-environment field
What was the point of the exercise we did in class where we stood up and looked back upon ourselves sitting in the chair moments before?
it was to give us a look from the phenomenological perspective
Gestalt therapists seek to do what?
understand the client's meaning making
At the phobic layer of our pathology we:
avoid and run from the emotional or psychological pain regarding how dissatisfied we are with ourselves & others
Unexpressed feelings from the past can lead to feelings of:
resentment - hatred - rage - guilt - anxiety - grief - pain - abandonment
"Connect the dots" images would be an example of what, according to Frits?
closure
The phony layer refers to:
reacting to others in stereotypical or inauthentic ways - i.e. playing games
According to Fritz, attention shifting is characterized by:
different objects becoming the focus of one's attention & then fade into the background
We create reality in the moment by:
the way we see things
What did Fritz mean by 'closure'?
our brains take little pieces & bring them together as a whole
Learning & change occur when we organize our __________ & __________ novelty.
experiences assimilate
Client's use deflection when:
they use a process of distraction to make it difficult to maintain a sense of contact with another person
An imppasse in Gestalt therapy refers to:
a 'stuck point' - where the individual does not have their usual support & feel as though they cannot go back but are unsure if they can make it going forward
What is required for growth?
change
According to Fritz, what is the essential character of human life?
meeting with various kinds of others
What does Frits considered unfinished business?
the unexpressed feelings that are associated with distinct past memories & fantasies
What is necessary to have a foreground?
having a background
Retroflection is defined as:
the means we use to give ourselves what we were unable to obtain from the environment
When we look at a clock we see simply that, a clock. We do not see a bunch of random numbers & symbols all bundled together. How is it that we see the entire picture of the clock and not just pieces?
because the whole (the clock) is different & therefore more than the sum of the individual parts
At which point in the five layers are we stuck in our own maturation?
the impasse
Change can also be considered becoming:
'unstuck'
The Gestalt view of human nature claims:
that humans by nature are neither basically good nor evil
Projection may be defined as:
our placing in the outside world those parts of our personality that we refuse to accept or with which we are unable to identify
Unfinished business =
the enemy
A gestaltian therapist would say would say, "like a clock, we:"
take pieces & make a whole
What is the definition of Gestalt?
the entire being or wholeness of an individual
What did Frits believe authenticity to be?
a person's state of truly being himself or herself
Gestaltian therapists believed humans were:
neither good or bad
Why is self-awareness important in Gestalt therapy?
because it allows a person to be conscious of the here and now through the forming of new figure-ground relationships
All contact is:
creative & dynamic
Section 2
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