Gestalt therapy is a direction of psychoanalysis that has been successfully applied in practice to help people with mental problems. The author of this method is Frederick Perls, a German psychiatrist. The main slogan of Gestalt therapy is to "live here and now", and all the features of theory and technology are aimed at getting rid of the influence of the past, fantasies about the future, surrounding people and society and solving their problems, aware of their feelings.
What is gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy is one of the areas of psychiatric therapy, the principles of which were developed by a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst Frederick Perls. The main rule of this trend is "live here and now." Gestalt therapy works only with current experiences and problems; during a psychotherapy session, psychologists encourage clients not to leave the stream of conscious emotions.
Perls and other followers of this theory of psychoanalysis believed that a person loses the ability to recognize his feelings, analyze them, he turns to the past or aims at the future, which does not solve his problem. He seeks a way out in relationships with other people, but does not achieve inner harmony.
The main feature of gestalt therapy is that this area of psychology is purely practical, therapists apply certain techniques and techniques to help people, develop new methods of treatment and counseling, and study the problems of working with one person or several patients.
The followers of this method are not fond of theorizing, but test their speculations in practice, and as practice shows, gestalt therapy is often successful.