Week 3- Gestalt

Question 1

Fieldtheory

Answer 1

Suffering/ pathology is seen, conceptualised and approached from the field theory

Question 2

What is the field?

Answer 2

Systematic web of relationships
Continuous in space and time
Everything is of a field
Phenomena are determined by the whole field
Is a unitary whole: Everything affects everything else in the field
Therapist is a part of it
It is organized and our investigation concerns how it is organized

Question 3

Creative adjustment

Answer 3

In order to survive unhealthy situations we will adjust ‘unhealthy’ habits, patterns and belief systems
As a ‘healthy’ at that moment, response to the unhealthy surrounding
Influence contact styles
A creative balance between changing the environment and adjusting to current conditions

Question 4

Fritz’s way

Answer 4

Confrontational
Needs ground or else patient could regress to original situation

Question 5

Laura’s way

Answer 5

Contact
Relational
Making ground
Babysteps

Question 6

Introjects

Answer 6

Things that are swallowed easily without chewing on them
Think you have to be like this
When its healthy its okay but often times it is unhealthy

Question 7

Projection

Answer 7

Something that I take without checking
Project from people we know, images, prejudice, bias and earlier confrontations

Question 8

Deflection

Answer 8

Avoiding a topic that is hard

Question 9

Retroflection

Answer 9

Withdrawing and going inside yourself

Question 10

Confluence

Answer 10

Feeling together with your therapist

Question 11

Egotism

Answer 11

Sometimes we have to make ourselves big to survive

Question 12

Methodology of gestalt

Answer 12

1. Observation
   -What and how?
2. Concepts and awareness
   -Contact style, creative adjustments
3. Work, suggestions by the therapist
   -Ground?

Question 13

Intersectionality

Answer 13

A lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where the parts interact and are intersectional

Question 14

Equality

Answer 14

Everybody gets the same

Question 15

Equity

Answer 15

Positive discrimination: Adjusting for people who are in marginalized positions

Question 16

paradoxical theory of change

Answer 16

The more one tries to become who one is not, the more one stays the same

Question 17

3 main concepts of gestalt

Answer 17

1. Contact: Being in touch with what is emerging here and now. Ones experience of contact and withdrawal determines the quality of ones life and capacity for growth and development
2. Conscious awareness: Being in touch with what is- Prerequisite for contact
3. Experimentation: Act of trying something new to increase understanding

Question 18

Personality according to Gestalt

Answer 18

Living organisms must be considered within the interaction with its environment
Self does not exist without the other
Experience does not exist without contact

Question 19

Hysteria

Answer 19

When a figure changes so rapidly as to prevent satisfaction

Question 20

Compulsivity

Answer 20

When a figure changes so slowly that new figures have no room to assume dominance

Question 21

Mental illness- Gestalt

Answer 21

The inability to form clear figures of interest and identify with one’s moment-by-moment experience or respond to what one becomes aware of or both

Question 22

Neurotic self regulation

Answer 22

The result of a creative adjustment that was made in a difficult situation in the past and then not readjusted as field conditions changed

Question 23

Polarities in Gestalt

Answer 23

A figure against a ground
In neurotic regulation some aspects of ones ground must be kept out of awareness and polarities lose their fluidity and become hardened into dichotomies

Question 24

Resistance (Gestalt)

Answer 24

Expression of the organisms integrity
Opposing the formation of a figure

Question 25

impasse

Answer 25

When a persons customary supports are not available and new supports have not yet been mobilized

Question 26

authentic existence

Answer 26

Experienced when someone stays with the experience of an impasse
Existence with minimal illusion, good self-support, vitality, creativity and good contact with human and non-human environment

Question 27

Mechanisms of gestalt psychotherapy

Answer 27

Focusing
Enactment
Mental experiments, Guided fantasy and imagery
Body techniques
Loosening and integrating techniques

Question 28

Holism

Answer 28

Humans are self regulating, growth-oriented and cannot be understood apart from their environment

Question 29

Second order of awareness

Answer 29

awareness of ones awareness process

Question 30

rule of abstinence

Answer 30

gratifying no patient wish

Question 31

rule of neutrality

Answer 31

having no preferences in the patients conflict

Question 32

support

Answer 32

anything and everything that facilitates assimilation and integration