Gestalt Therapy Corey Chapter 8
Paradoxical Theory of Change
Arnie Besser suggested that authentic change occurs more from being who we are then from trying to be what we are not.
Miriam Polster's 3-stage integration sequence is....
Discovery, accommodation, and assimilation.
Holism....
Gestalt therapists are interested in the whole person and attends to a client's thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body, memories, and dreams.
"You" talk is...
Global and impersonal language.
Splits in personality
Top dog vs. under dog. This is an internal dialogue exercise.
Assimilation is when....
a client learns how to influence their environment.
Organismic self-regulation is....
a process by which equilibrium is disturbed by the emergence of a need, a sensation, or an interest. Organisms will do their best to regulate themselves given their own capabilities and the resources of their environment.
The reversal exercise is....
acting in an opposite way.
Future projection technique is when....
an anticipated event is brought in the present moment and acted out.
Making the rounds is.....
an exercise that involves asking a person in a group to go up to others in the group and either speak two or do something with each person.
Fritz Perls......
asserted how individuals behave in the present is more important than why.
The Gestalt Therapist is......
attentive to the clients present experience and Trust in the process there by assisting the client and moving toward increased awareness contact and integration.
Gestalt Therapy aims at....
awareness and contact with the environment which consists of both the external and internal worlds.
Prerequisites for good contact are.....
clear awareness, full energy, and the ability to express oneself.
Accommodation is when....
clients recognize they have a choice.
Attending to the obvious.....
cues to this background can be found on the surface through physical gestures, tone of voice, demeanor, and other nonverbal content.
Blocked energy is another form of.....
defensive behavior.
Figure-formation process...
derived from the study of visual perception by a group of Gestalt psychologists this tracks how the individual organizes experiences from moment to moment as some aspect of the environmental field emerges from the background and becomes the focal point of the individuals attention and interest.
The general orientation of Gestalt Therapy is....
dialogue.
Gestalt Therapy is lively and promotes....
direct experiencing rather than talking about situations.
Field.....
dynamic system of interrelationships.
Gestalt Therapy is an......
existential, phenomenological, and process based approach.
Experiments are....
grow out of the interaction between client and therapist and they emerged within this dialogic process. Are spontaneously created.
A basic assumption of Gestalt Therapy is....
individuals have the capacity to self-regulate when they are aware of what is happening in and around them.
Effective Contact means....
interacting with nature and with other people without losing one's self of individuality.
In Gestalt Therapy an experiment is an.....
intervention and active technique that facilitates the collaborative exploration of a client's experience.
The Gestalt Therapist's job is to....
invite clients into an active partnership where they can learn about themselves by adopting an experimental attitude toward life in which they try out new behaviors and notice what happens.
Confluence
involves blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment.
Phenomenological inquiry...
involves paying attention to what is occurring now.
Contact is....
is necessary if change and growth are to occur and is made by seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and moving.
Deflection....
is the process of distraction or veering off, so that it is difficult to maintain a sustained sense of contact. it's when we attempt to diffuse contact through the overuse of humor, abstract generalizations, and questions rather than statements.
Introjection...
is the tendency to uncritically accept others beliefs and standards without a simulating them to make them congruent with Who We Are.
Projection....
is when we disown certain aspects of ourselves by assigning them to the environment. those attributes of our personality that are inconsistent with our self-image are disowned and put onto, assigned to, and seen and other people. Thus, blaming others for our problems.
"Questions" tend to....
keep the questioner hidden, safe, and unknown.
Awareness is....
knowing the environment, knowing oneself, accepting oneself, and being able to make contact.
Gestalt Therapists do not....
make interpretations that explain the Dynamics of an individual's Behavior.
During the Gestalt process clients will.....
move toward increased awareness of themselves. Gradually assume ownership of their experience. Develop skills and acquire values that will allow them to satisfy their needs without violating the rights of others. Become more aware of all their senses. Learn to accept responsibility for what they do including accepting the consequences of their actions. Be able to ask for and get help from others and be able to give to others.
Both contact and withdrawal are....
necessary and important to healthy functioning.
An important function of Gestalt Therapist's is.....
paying attention to clients body language. These nonverbal cues provide Rich information as they often represent feelings of which the client is unaware.
Exercises are....
ready-made techniques and pre-planned activities that are sometimes used to make something happen in the therapy session or to achieve a goal.
Contact boundary phenomena....
resistances that are developed as a means of coping with a life situations, they possess positive qualities as well as problematic ones.
Gestalt view on human nature is.....
rooted in existential philosophy, phenomenology, and field theory.
Contemporary relational Gestalt Therapy....
stresses dialogue and I/Thou relationship between client and therapist. Includes more compassion and sensitivity than Perls.
Impasse is a....
stuck point.
The Gestalt approach to dream work...
the Gestalt approach does not interpret and analyze dreams. Instead the intent is to bring dreams back to life and relive them as though they were happening now.
The Gestalt Theory of change posits that.....
the more we work at becoming who or what we are not the more we remain the same.
Field Theory....
the organism must be seen in its environment as part of the constantly changing field.
Genuine knowledge is.....
the product of what is immediately evident in the experience of the perceiver.
Ground....
those aspects of the clients presentation that are often out of his or her awareness.
Figure....
those aspects of the individuals experience that are most Salient at any moment.
The two functions of boundaries are...
to connect and to separate.
Fritz Perls style of therapy involved....
two personal agendas: moving the client from environmental support to self support and reintegrating the disowned parts of one's personality.
When energy is blocked it may result in.....
unfinished business.
The Empty chair technique is.....
used for role reversal.
"It" talk is....
using depersonalizing language.
The Rehearsal exercise is....
when clients share their rehearsals out loud with the therapist they then become more aware of the many preparatory means they use in both during their social roles.
Unfinished Business is...
when figures emerge from the background but are not completed and resolved.
The Exaggeration exercise is.....
when the person is asked to exaggerate the movement or gesture repeatedly.
Staying with the feeling is....
when the therapist urges clients to stay with their feelings and encourages them to go deeper into the feeling or behavior they wish to avoid.