A Gestalt Understanding of the Organism and the Self, Part 2
This second part of a two-part article explores the self as the meeting of organism and environment, and the role of that self in Gestalt therapy.
‘In Practice’ Articles at BlogsInMind.com Archive
The following articles are related to ‘In Practice’ at BlogsInMind.com Archive.
A Gestalt Understanding of the Organism and the Self, Part 1
Part one of this two-part article explores how attending to the relationship between the organism and its environment means that in one sense, Gestalt therapy is focused on the individual, while in another, it is not.
Creating and Receiving Ourselves
How else can I make sense of part of my experience except to say that I discover myself, or that there is an aspect of me that simply is?
After Therapy, Style
I’d like to ask whether therapy can be positive. And I’d like to answer yes. This answer leads us smack bang into the realm of values.
If Counselling Is Learning, What Kind of Learning?
Counselling may be a kind of learning process — of learning to live differently. But what kind of learning is this? The kind of learning we do in school? Or some other kind?
Is Counselling Unlearning?
We usually come to counselling with a pain or problem we want fixed. It may be that we find we need to unlearn patterns of feeling and behaviour. It may be that counselling is more about unlearning than learning.
Is Counselling Learning?
Most of the difficulties in our lives we overcome by learning about them in some way. Should we adopt this approach to relationships and counselling?