Fritz Perlz

Angie’s problem arises because of the way she thinks about the situation. Therapy aims to give Angie a new way of

The Gestalt approach to therapy emerged during the 1950’s and was developed by Frederick Perls (1893-1970). The aim of Gestalt therapy is to increase awareness, so that the client comes to resolution of unfinished business and the integration of the thinking, feeling and sensing processes. In Gestalt therapy the emphasis is placed on the present experience, the perception of the individual as a whole and the direct awareness of emotions and action. Gestalt therapists believe that the emotional problems and frustrations that are experienced by individuals are attributed to the lack of recognition and understanding of their own feelings. In addition to this Gestaltist believe that many individuals lose

Transference is often manifested as an erotic attraction towards a therapist, but can be seen in many other forms such as rage, hatred, mistrust, prettification, extreme dependence, or even placing the therapist in a god-like or guru status. When Freud initially encountered transference in his therapy with clients, he felt it was an obstacle to treatment success. But what he learned was that the analysis of the transference was actually the work that needed to be done. The focus in psychodynamic psychotherapy is, in large part, the therapist and client recognizing the transference relationship and exploring what the meaning of the relationship is. Because the transference between patient and therapist happens on an unconscious level, psychodynamic therapists who are largely concerned with a patient's unconscious material use the transference to reveal unresolved conflicts patients have with figures from their childhoods. Countertransference is defined as redirection of a therapist's feelings toward a client, or more generally as a therapist's emotional entanglement with a client. A therapist's atonement to his own countertransference is nearly as critical as his understanding of the transference. Not only does this help the therapist regulate his or her own emotions in the therapeutic relationship, but it also gives the therapist valuable insight into

This paper will carry out a comparative analysis of the two most important psychological therapies, the Adlerian Therapy and the Gestalt Therapy.

Gestalt therapy is a therapeutic approach in psychology that helped foster the humanistic theories of the 1950s and 1960s and that was, in turn, influenced by them. In Gestalt philosophy, the patient is seen as having better insight into himself or herself than the therapist does. Thus, the therapist guides the person on a self-directed path to awareness and refrains from interpreting the patient’s behaviors. Awareness comprises recognition of one’s responsibility for choices, self-knowledge, and ability to solve problems.

identifying the causes of the client feeling. Gestalts therapy focus on the here and now of the

Psychotherapy is the treatment by psychological means for mental disorder. Regarding the mental disorders, the narrator encounters others that symbolizes such disorders; woman eating peanuts has an eating disorder, the men drinking wine has alcoholism and the young girls with intense faces have anger disorders. According to the American Psychological Association, a benefit of psychotherapy sessions involves others from a variety of mental disorders. “He saw the screen disappear… And the man with the microphone and a uniformed attendant coming on the stage (Ellison 75),” symbolizes a psychologist and a nurse coming on stage to start session. In addition to the stage, Ellison writes “he stumbled down the aisle and up the steps to the stage into a light,” emphasizing that the session involves some form of icebreaker activity, but also unveiling such symptoms.

The psychotherapy used here was where the therapist was just trying to make Meredith open up and tell her what is really going on. The therapist was not trying to push her way in but just let Meredith

Gestalt Therapy is a humanistic therapy technique established by Laura and Fritz Perls in the 1940-1950’s. This therapy focuses on acquiring awareness of emotions and behaviours that exists in the here and now rather than delving into the past. Instead of the therapist interpreting experiences for the client, the therapist works with the client to develop an understanding of the world through the client’s eyes, thereby helping the client to gain a deeper understanding of him/herself. Clients are encouraged to recognise their current needs, address them and then let these needs fade into the background. The well-adjusted person is seen as someone who recognises their ongoing flow of needs and has the ability satisfy those needs (Falex, 2008).

One Native artist working to challenge the stereotypes that have burdened Native Americans for so long is Fritz Scholder. As stated best by NPR host, Robert Siegel, “Fritz Scholder broke almost every rule there was for an American Indian artist.” Scholder was one-quarter Luiseno, a California Mission Tribe, but grew up identifying as “non-Indian.” Scholder has always worked in a series of paintings, and states that all of his paintings are self-portraits of some aspect of himself. His work takes on a combined form of pop art with abstract expressionism. He started his controversial series on the Native American, which illustrates the “real Indian,” in 1967. Scholder has not always painted Indians. In fact, he never intended on painting

This interaction between the therapist and client led to a significant intervention. When Perls asks Gloria what her foot is doing she laughs quite a bit and says that she's afraid that he's going to notice everything that she does. Perls intervenes by pointing out that Gloria is laughing (which is incongruent with what she is saying and feeling). These and many other behaviors lead Perls to confront Gloria by calling her a phony. It is at this point that Gloria expresses her feelings in a genuine way. She expresses verbally that she is angry and she behaves as though she is angry. This is the first time during the session that her affect is congruent with her mood. This is a perfect example of what Corey meant when he wrote "[Perls] was a master at intentionally frustrating clients to enhance their awareness (2009, p. 200).

It was the way Thelma approach therapy all this years what had made it so hard for any sort of improvement. She had a clear idea of what could help her get better and being truly upfront about it was not really one of them. No wonder why the therapy with the other doctors did not work out, she was hiding the biggest and most important reason of all for her obsessions. Dr. Yalom interpret this as an error on the other therapist, even imagined they had little experience in the practice and that is way they couldn’t see what was really tormenting her. By Thelma hiding her true emotions, fears and wants from Dr. Yalom it made it hard to build a relationship of trust between therapist-patient.

Gestalt therapy, which was founded by Fritz and Laura Perls in the 1940s, teaches the therapists and their clients the phenomenological awareness method, where feeling, perceiving and acting are differentiated from interpreting and rearranging the pre-existing attitudes. Gestalt therapists and clients’ dialogue, thus communicating their phenomenological perspectives, and their differences in perceptions form the basis and focus of experimentation and continued dialogue. The desired outcome of the therapy process is for the client to become aware of their actions, how they are acting, and the ways they can change their actions and learn to accept and appreciate themselves. Here, the emphasis is mainly on the process rather

Thelma, hesitantly, decides on giving therapy one last try as she cannot seem to move passed on being obsessed over Matthew. (Yalom, 2000) Yalom states his goals of therapy and what she can expect. He tells her that its not going to be easy and that its will take dedication in therapy to get her to realize that her obsession is based on the power she has given to Matthew. Determined to get her to agree to not harming herself, Thelma finally agrees after hesitation informs him that she will only commit herself to six months of treatment and no more than that. (Yalom, 2000) I thought Yalom definably stated the goals and what is expected of his patient as what I have read in the Corey text that boundaries and goals have to be stated otherwise the therapist is treating a patient with lose objectives and indefinite expectations.

The topdog-underdog dialogue would also be of aid in confronting Ellie’s childish feelings when her husband loses his temper. Throughout the entire therapy, I would aim for Ellie to stay with the feeling (Sommers-Flanagan, & Sommers-Flanagan, 2015). She is disconnected from her emotions so Gestalt therapy is useful for her to become more aware of what she feels at a given