Every theoretical system has its biases, and gestalt is no exception. Along with gestalt's bias towards here and now experience, gestalt also has a bias towards emotion and feeling.
There is a general wisdom in gestalt that emotions are Good Things, and that feeling one's emotions is better than not feeling them. Whilst I agree with…
From time to time, I like to return to first principles to remind myself of what I'm doing, and to what end. I haven't written a "what is gestalt therapy?" post for a while, so here we go.
"What is gestalt psychotherapy?" is really three questions in one. And I think those questions are best approached…
Tomorrow (Thursday 23rd June 2016), millions of us will go to a polling station, and decide the fate of our nation by putting a cross in one of two boxes in the much anticipated EU Referendum. Polling puts the result on a knife-edge, which means that the votes of undecided voters will decide the result.
I've…
The most elaborate of complexities can arise from the most elegant of simplicities. In gestalt, simplicity is achieved and maintained through a rigorous attention to the present moment, the legendary here and now.
Gestalt therapy can be stripped back to three basic questions:
1. What are you aware of now?
2. What do you need now?
3. What does…