View of Human Nature

Question 1

How is awareness built in Gestalt Therapy?

Answer 1

Building contact with: internal world (pts of self) and external world (other people) ; own pts of internal world which were disowned

Question 2

What is the basic assumption of Gestalt Therapy?

Answer 2

Human beings have the ability to self-regulate when they are aware of what is happening IN and AROUND them

Question 3

Gestalt Theory of Change

Answer 3

The more we try to become WHO or WHAT we are NOT, the more we remain the SAME

Question 4

Paradoxical Theory of Change

Answer 4

AUTHENTIC CHANGE comes more from being WHO WE ARE than trying to be WHO WE ARE NOT

Question 5

Founder of Paradoxical Theory of Change

Answer 5

Arnie Beisser; friend of Fritz Perls

Question 6

Concepts Gestalt Therapy is influenced by

Answer 6

Phenomenology, field theory, and existential philosophy