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Summary in English (text is in German): The purpose of this contribution is firstly to say something about the relations between Gestalt theory and didactics and secondly to explain some assumptions and concepts of Gestalt theory which... more
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      Teaching and LearningDidacticsLearning and TeachingGestalt Psychology
Biography and work of Bluma Zeigarnik.
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      Gestalt PsychologyGestalt TheoryGestalttheoretical Psychotherapy
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      HermeneuticsGestalt TherapyHermeneutic PhenomenologyGestalt Theory
In this work I will highlight an epistemological turning point in hermeneutics and clinical work shared by Gestalt therapy, Gestalt theory and Neurosciences. I will use the concept of isomorphism as a possible bridge connecting these... more
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt TheoryNeurosciences
The term empathy has become a linguistic commonplace in everyday communication as well as in interdisciplinary research. The results of the research questions, raised in the last hundred (and more) years, coming from different areas, such... more
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      Empathy (Psychology)Empathy (Philosophy)EmpathyGestalt Theory
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      DesignGestalt TheoryForm perceptionComputer Design
In recent debates on empathy in various disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, cognitive sciences, neurophysiology, the discussion has focused on empathic experiences within the intersubjective context, either... more
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      AestheticsMax SchelerAnimationAristotle
Ladder of InferenceCHow We Tell Our Stories We can deepen our understanding if we examine how we make meaning and habitualized our perceptions. A useful tool in helping clients examine their thinking processes is the Aladder of inference@... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceIntelligenceVisual perception
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      Evolutionary BiologyNeurosciencePsychologyBehavioural Science
The “mirror world” (Spiegelwelt or Gegenwelt) was introduced by Jakob von Uexkull (1920; Bernhard Hassenstein 2001). It marks a metabletic (Bertha Mook 2009; Jan Hendrik van den Berg 1956) turn in the life sciences of the first quarter of... more
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      PsychologyOntologyGestalt Theory
Book review: Diversity in Supervision, Coaching and Counselling
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      Coaching PsychologyGestalt PsychologyClinical SupervisionDiversity & Inclusion
Über den Kampf um den Begriff der Gestalt in der KI-Forschung. Baut auf meinem Paper "Die 'Gestalt' der KI" auf und erweitert den historischen Hintergrund.
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      Artificial IntelligenceHistory of AtomismGestalt PsychologyHolism
Reviews the book "Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis", edited by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic and Michael B. Buchholz (2020, Routledge).
Die Besprechung ist in deutscher Sprache abgefasst.
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      PsychoanalysisConversation AnalysisPsychotherapy and CounselingSilence
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt psychotherapyGestalt TheoryAwareness
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      PsychotherapyGestalt TherapyCo-creationGestalt Theory
This paper explores meaning making through the process of polarity management. Underlying the application of Gestalt theory to organization development, consulting, and/or coaching is an approach that Arnold Biesser, M.D., characterized... more
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt/humanistic Approach to CoachingGestalt TheoryGestalt OD
There is a widespread belief in the academic world—above all in the United States and in the scientific communities around the world accepting U.S. mainstream science as their standard —that »schools« have lost their grounds and their... more
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      PsychologyCognitive PsychologyPhilosophy of ScienceCritical Realism
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      Military HistoryVisual StudiesWomen's StudiesNaval History
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      Military HistoryFashion designWomen's StudiesIndustrial Design
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      NeurosciencePsychologyBehavioural ScienceClinical Psychology
Eine Auswahl an Forschungsergebnissen rund um die Thematik des Umgangs mit Erinnerungen an Träume in der Psychotherapie – umgangsprachlich überwiegend „Arbeiten mit Träumen“ genannt – soll einesteils einen Einblick in die aktuelle... more
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      Gestalt PsychologyDreams (Psychology)Gestalt TheoryLucid Dreams
Abstract in English (paper in German): Gestalt psychology, with its concepts of the dynamics of tension systems and the formation of isolated subsystems dating back to Kurt Lewin, offers a dynamic approach to explaining the occurrence of... more
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      Existential Phenomenological PsychotherapyPhenomenological PsychologyHumanistic psychologyGestalt Psychology
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      Military HistoryZoologyPsychologyVisual Studies
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      PsychotherapyGestalt TherapyGestalt TheoryGestalt
Summary For Gestalt psychology and Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy the "top-down approach" is characteristic. The article elaborates the four meanings in which one can refer to this: On the one hand one can speak of "top-down"... more
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      Psychotherapy and CounselingGestalt PsychologyHolismHolistic Approaches
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt PsychologyGestalt TheoryGestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy
Summary: The article compares theoetical background and therapeutic aims of two therapeutic interventions, psychodramatic role playing and the empty chair technique in Gestalt therapy. Both interventions are used also in Gestalt... more
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      PsychodramaPsychotherapyPsychotherapy and CounselingGestalt Therapy
[About the Lewinian concept of powerfields and its relevance for psychotherapy. Part 1 of the article: Kurt Lewin's theory of powerfields, concepts and research. Part 2 of the article published in 2017: Relevance of the concept in... more
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      Social PsychologyExistential Phenomenological PsychotherapyPhenomenological PsychologyGroup Processes & Intergroup Relations
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      Field TheoryMedia EcologyJungian psychologyGilles Deleuze
From the 16th DGGO conference in Berlin, June, 18-20, 2015: "Feldkräfte – Was bewegt Menschen, Gruppen und Organisationen?" [Field forces - What is moving individuals, groups, and organizations?] The talk presents and discusses some... more
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      Gestalt PsychologyIntentionMotivationGestalt Theory
Summary in English (article in German): The Intuion can suddenly strike us like a flash of genius, without us being able to say how it came about. In psychotherapy, intuitive processes are of great importance in that they can give... more
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      IntuitionGestalt PsychologyCarl G. JungGestalt Theory
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      Phenomenological PsychologyTheories Of PsychotherapyGestalt PsychologyGestalt Theory
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      Military HistoryNaval WarfareFirst World WarDeception
Summary: Gestalt theoretical developmental psychology has always seen the infant as an active being. Current research findings support this view. In addition, they show that the investigations of the mother-child dyad, as they were... more
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      Developmental PsychologyInterpersonal CommunicationGestalt PsychologyIntersubjectivity
The following article proposes a new interpretation of Hans Sedlmayr's politics, which thereby achieves a more successful understanding of his work. Seeking to reconcile progressive and totalitarian elements of Sedlmayr's thought, his... more
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      National SocialismHans SedlmayrGestalt Theory
I september deltok jeg på EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy) sin konferanse i Budapest. Vi var 800 deltakere fra cirka 50 land, og temaet for konferansen var «An experiential exploration: The fertile void and creative... more
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt TheoryFertile VoidCreative Indifference
Evolutionarily and ontogenetically, cognition primarily comes from interactions that are to be understood as epistemic actions of a situated-embodied observer. Only gradually do cognitive simulations (as mental rehearsals) and abstract... more
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      Cognitive ScienceAestheticsEpistemologyEmbodied Cognition
Daniel N. Stern’s research on the first years of life offers the view of an active newborn, developing in a continuous dialogue with the Other. The mother places the infant feelings at the center of her attention. The infant gets in tune... more
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      Developmental PsychologyGestalt PsychologyGestalt TheoryInfant Development
The first round of the discussion on the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test developed by Karl Otto Götz includes texts from Gerhard Stemberger, Herbert Fitzek, Nils Myszkowski, Riccardo Luccio, Thomas Jacobsen/Barbara E. Marschallek/Selina... more
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      Gestalt PsychologySensitivity AnalysisRelational aestheticsGestalt Theory
English summary (text is in German): This paper examines the question of the utility and practical relevance of epistemological models for psychotherapy on the basis of Critical Realism, the epistemological position of Gestalt... more
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      Critical RealismEpistemology (Anthropology)Gestalt PsychologyEpistemology of the Social Sciences
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      Field TheoryGestalt TherapyGestalt TheoryBurnout
The article analyzes the "two-chair" (or "empty-chair") technique in psychotherapy from a Gestalt psychological view. The main emphasis in this analysis is that the meaning and effect of this technique for the client are not determined by... more
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      Existential Phenomenological PsychotherapyPsychotherapy and CounselingGestalt TherapyGestalt Psychology
In che modo i principi di organizzazione della Psicologia della Gestalt possono facilitare l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento?

In questa ricerca rispondo a questa domanda e presento  molti esempi pratici di applicazione.
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt PsychologyGestalt psychotherapyGestalt Theory
Howard Gruber, a founder member of Psychologists for Social Action, reviewed the dissertation. His review, dated May 7, 1978, as Parkovnick (2015) points out, "... is worth quoting in full, as it captures the very essence of the... more
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      Critical TheoryOrganizational BehaviorCultural HistoryPsychology
Gestalt merupakan sebuah istilah yang datang atau berasal dari Jerman. Sedangkan dalam bahasa Inggris hal ini berarti configuration, form, shape, dan whole. Teori psikologi gestalt sendiri adalah sebuah teori mengenai suatu aliran... more
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt PsychologyGestalt TheoryPsikologi
English: Brief account (in German language) of history and key concepts of Gestalt psychology based "Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy" (not identical with Gestalt Therapy). It has been published in 2011 in G. Stumm (ed.), "Psychotherapie... more
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      PsychotherapyExistential Phenomenological PsychotherapyGestalt PsychologyGestalt Theory
Tokom ranog razvoja, 0-36. meseca, dete razvija umeće kontaktiranja ali i svesnost o Selfu. U relacionom smislu, ono najpre nauči model MI (kroz primarnu konfluenciju), a zatim, prolazeći kroz druge modalitete (introjekcija, projekcija,... more
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      Gestalt TherapyGestalt Theory
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      PsychoanalysisGestalt PsychologySocial ClassGestalt Theory
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      PsychologyClinical PsychologyCognitive Behavioral TherapyPlay Therapy