GESTALT THERAPY

Question 1

Gestalt psychology was first developed by _____ and later by _____ and _____.

Answer 1

Max Wertheimer
Wolf-
gang Kohler
Kurt Koffka

Question 2

______ is based on the
view that psychological phenomena are organized wholes rather than specific
parts.

Answer 2

gestalt psychology

Question 3

Developer and popularized the Gestalt Theory

Answer 3

Fritz Perls

Question 4

In gestalt psychology, the “field” can be viewed in terms of “___” and
“____.”

Answer 4

figure
ground

Question 5

gestalt psychologists deny any ____

Answer 5

meaningful similarity.

Question 6

is the lifeblood of growth, means for changing oneself, and one’s experience of the world

Answer 6

Contact

Question 7

Contact differs from fusion, as
contact exists when a sense of separateness is maintained. In fusion, there is no

Answer 7

separateness.

Question 8

Five layers if neuroses

Answer 8

• phony
• phobic
• impasse
• implosive
• explosive

Question 9

refers to reacting to others in unauthentic or patterned ways.

Answer 9

Phony

Question 10

____ layer is an avoidance of psychological pain

Answer 10

phobic

Question 11

____ is the point at which we are afraid to change or move. We may feel
very little, only a sense of being stuck.

Answer 11

Impasse

Question 12

____ is the point at which we are afraid to change or move. We may feel
very little, only a sense of being stuck.

Answer 12

Impasse

Question 13

____ level we experience our feelings, start to become aware of the
real self, but may do little about the feelings.

Answer 13

implosive

Question 14

___ layer is authentic and without pretense.

Answer 14

explosive

Question 15

____ are the process of connecting to or separating from other or
objects.

Answer 15

Contact boundaries

Question 16

_____ are those that distinguish between one person and another, a person and an object, or the person and a quality of the person.

Answer 16

I-boundaries

Question 17

I-boundaries can be described:

Answer 17

• body-boundaries
• value-boundaries,
• familiarity-boundaries
• expressive-boundaries.

Question 18

____ are those that may restrict sensations or place them off limits.

Answer 18

Body-boundaries

Question 19

_____ refer to values we hold that we are resistant to changing.

Answer 19

Value-boundaries

Question 20

____ refer to events that are often repeated but may not be
thought about or challenged.

Answer 20

Familiarity-boundaries

Question 21

____ are learned at an early age. We learn not to yell, not to
whine, not to touch, and so forth. In the United States, men have often been
taught not to cry.

Answer 21

Expressive-boundaries

Question 22

Five patterns in gestalt psychology

Answer 22

Introjection
Projection
Retroflection
Deflection
Confluence

Question 23

refers to swallowing whole or accepting others’ views without reviewing them.

Answer 23

Introjection

Question 24

____ refers to the dismissing or disowning of aspects of ourselves by assigning them to others.

Answer 24

Projection

Question 25

consists of doing to ourselves what we want to do to someone
else, or it can refer to doing things for ourselves that we want others to do for
us.

Answer 25

Retroflection

Question 26

refers to varying degrees of avoidance of contact.

Answer 26

Deflection

Question 27

____ occurs when the boundary between one’s self and others becomes
muted or lessened

Answer 27

Confluence

Question 28

___ refers to what is happening now rather than what is remembered

Answer 28

Awareness

Question 29

This refers to feelings from the
past that have been unexpressed but are dealt with in the present.

Answer 29

Unfinished business

Question 30

Five phases

Answer 30

sensation/awareness
mobilization
contact
resolution/closure
withdrawal.

Question 31

____ involves taking in experience through the senses. Patients
with a borderline disorder often have difficulty maintaining relationships because of distorted intake of sensations.

Answer 31

Sensation/awareness

Question 32

refers to moving from awareness to forming a desire or want

Answer 32

Mobilization

Question 33

__ produces emotional arousal and implies contact with self and others.

Answer 33

Contact

Question 34

___ takes place as individuals disengage from an experience.

Answer 34

Resolution/closure

Question 35

takes place as the experiencing cycle draws to a close and moves
toward other contact experiences.

Answer 35

Withdrawal

Question 36

patients may get a new view of themselves or of an old problem or situation

Answer 36

discovery

Question 37

patients learn that they have choices and
can try out different behaviors

Answer 37

accommodation

Question 38

___, patients progress from choosing and
trying out new behaviors to learning how to make changes in their environment.

Answer 38

assimilation

Question 39

____that is,
playing out parts of oneself or others—can be a dramatic gestalt experiment to
bring about change.

Answer 39

Enacting

Question 40

In this conceptualization,
events from the past prevent the individual from developing full awareness in
the present.

Answer 40

Unfinished business