Gestalt therapy - Fritz & laura perls - theories exam 2 set 3

Gestalt therapy - Fritz & laura perls - theories exam 2 set 3

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view of human nature: existential & gestalt influences: -awareness > paradoxical theory of ___, figure-ground, unfinished business > messes up stuff, "mind games" > lose your mind & come to your senses

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reversal

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___ technique: have ppl be there opposite

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obvious

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fritz perls: therapy is about pointing out the ___

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fritz, laura perls

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associate (person) & (person) w/ gestalt therapy

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phobic

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(gestalt) avoiding emotional pain of our real selves > ___ layer

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holism

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we try to complete things & make them into wholes (our mind tries to make sense of nonsense)

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figure

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those aspects of the individual's experience that are most salient at any moment

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fritz perls

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___ believed no one could tell him what to do

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blocks

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energy - locate the ___, call awareness to them, & transform them into adaptive behavior

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projection

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believe their a victim of life's circumstances, reverse of introjection, disown certain aspects of ourselves by assigning them to the environment

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introjection

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tendency to uncritically accept others' beliefs and standards without assimilating them to make them congruent with who we are

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organismic self-regulation

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a process by which equilibrium is "disturbed" by the emergence of a need, a sensation, or an interest

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deflection

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beat around the bush, small talk don't get too deep, process of distraction or veering off, so it's difficult to maintain a sustained sense of contact

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phony, phobic, impasse, implosive, explosive

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layers of neurosis: ___ layer, ___ layer, ___ layer, ___ layer, ___ layer

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impasse

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stuck point, occurs when external support is not available or the customary way of being done does not work

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it

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Verbal language: "__" talk - say "I" not "__" > pushes pain off, "It really hurts when" vs. "I am hurt"

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contact

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use 5 senses to experience other ppl in your environment

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internal, responsibility, secret

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Gestalt exercises: the ___ dialogue, "I take ___ for....", "I have a ___"

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experiments

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___ grow out of the interaction b/w client & therapist

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you, questions, power, metaphors, story

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verbal language: "___ talk," ___, language that denies ___, listening for clients' ___, listneing for language taht uncovers a ___

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explosive layer

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(gestalt) releasing phony role pretenses to achieve a sense of relief & release > ___ layer

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self-regulation, end-goals

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gestalt therapy - view of human nature: organismic ___, biological organism "___" > hunger, thirst, shelter, sex, survival (said a self-actualized person can get these needs by self)

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unfinished business

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when figures emerge from the background but are not completed & resolved, can be manifested in unexpressed feelings such as resetnment, rage....

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retroflection

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do what others want you to do, turning back onto ourselves what we would like to do to someone else or doing to ourselves what we would like someone else to do to or for us

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experience, paradoxical, process

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important components of therapy: the continuum of ___, the here & now, the ___ theory of change, the experiment, the authentic encounter, ___-oriented diagnosis

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awareness

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therapy process: goal is ___ & only that, for w/ awareness comes greater choice & "reowning" parts disowned, pay attention to client's body & verbal language

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implosive layer

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(gestalt) stage at which we allow ourselves to fully experience our deadness or inauthentic ways in order to make contact with our own genuine self

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reversal, rehearsal, rounds

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gestalt exercises: the ___ technique, the ___ exercise, making the ___, staying w/ the feeling, the exaggeration exercise

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paradoxical theory of change

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the more you try to change self the less you will, if you accept self for who you are then you'll find change

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exercises

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ready-made techniques that are sometimes used to evoke certain emotions

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field theory

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___ (beef stew) - organism must be seen in its environment, or in its contect, as part of a constantly changing field

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psychoanalytic, existentialism

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Influences on Perls' Theory: ___ > Karen Horney & Wilheim Reich (perls' analyst), ___

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aware

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exaggeration exercise done so you become ___ of what you are doing

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ground

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those aspects of the client's presentation that are often out of his/her awareness

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goldstein

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kurt ___ was a gestalt psychologist who created a theory on holism & field theory (beef stew)

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confluence

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get 2 ppl together > their lives are so entertwined can't tell where one starts & other doesn't

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alfred korzybski

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cared about language & what they had to say, developed general semantics, argued human knowledge of world is limited by human nervous system & the langauges humans have developed, & thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that most we can know is that which is filtered through brain's responses to reality

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phony layer

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play games to manipulate ppl to get what you want ex: 1. play stupid so ppl tell you what to do, 2. religious - I'm such a moral upstanding person, 3. create chaos so ppl stay awy or do whatever you want

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phenomenological

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view of human nature - gestalt: the now > ___ inquiry (what are you doing at this moment), contact, resistance to contact: introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, confluence

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phenomenological inquiry

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___ involves paying attention to what's occuring now, be present

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jan smuts

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prime minister of south africa, influenced perls when he moved to africa, wrote book about holism & evolution which actually scrutinized the wider ecological whole from a gestalt perspective, devised the word holism

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