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Gestalt therapy
A humanistic-experiential approach — awareness, contact, figure–ground, techniques, boundary disturbances, and modern practice.
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Gestalt therapy focuses on present-moment awareness and completing unfinished emotional business — founded by Fritz & Laura Perls and Paul Goodman.
It uses experiments (empty chair, exaggeration) more than long past analysis. Contact with self and others at the 'here and now' is the healing ground.
- Figure–ground: what stands out in awareness now vs background.
- Five blocks: introjection, projection, retroflection, confluence, deflection.
- Not the same as Gestalt perception psychology — related language, different field.
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