Gestalt Theory
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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
Biography and work of Bluma Zeigarnik.
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
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
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
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
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
Book review: Diversity in Supervision, Coaching and Counselling
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.
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.
Die Besprechung ist in deutscher Sprache abgefasst.
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
In questa ricerca rispondo a questa domanda e presento molti esempi pratici di applicazione.
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
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
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
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