Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt Therapy

Introduction

Gestalt therapy is a phenomenal therapy which was proposed by the two psychologists Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls in the 1940s. It provides assistance to patients in terms of awareness regarding various methods to differentiate the act of perceiving, feeling and behaving from inferring and rationalizing the preexisting mind-set and approach (Yontef, 1993).

In this therapy, the phenomenological perspectives of direct perceiving and feeling are communicated rather than emphasizing the explaining and interpreting approach. This therapy is used in the programs of treating the substance abuse. People involved in the substance abuse need to know what they are doing ...