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Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Published in Mohamed Ahmed Abd El-Hay, Understanding Psychology for Medicine and Nursing, 2019
Gestalt therapy focuses on the skills and techniques that permit an individual to be more aware of their feelings. It emphasizes the here and now; it is much more important to understand what patients are feeling and how they are feeling rather than to identify what is causing their feelings. Supporters of Gestalt therapy argued that earlier theories spent an unnecessary amount of time making assumptions about what causes behavior. Role playing plays a large role in Gestalt therapy and allows for a true expression of feelings that may not have been shared in other circumstances. Also, non-verbal cues are seen as indicator of how the client may actually be feeling, despite the feelings expressed.
Case Study Severe Processed Food Addiction
Published in Joan Ifland, Marianne T. Marcus, Harry G. Preuss, Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery, 2017
In the mid-80s, I added an important new component to my recovery. Gestalt therapy is a holistic, experiential approach to healing that focuses on emotions, the body, and cognitive restoration. It was exactly what I needed.
Animal-Assisted Therapies
Published in Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews, Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
Tara G. Matthews, Dawn Yelvington
Gestalt therapy emphasizes awareness of the self, including one’s internal emotions, needs, and desires, in a relational context (Kirby, 2010; Brandt, 2013). Gestalt therapy is helpful for clients who struggle to accurately match body language with their emotions (Kirby, 2010; Schultz et al., 2006; Whitley, 2009; Brandt, 2013). Like CBT, gestalt therapy incorporates mindfulness techniques to encourage the use of, and further develop, non-verbal cues and body language (Brandt, 2013). This integration of mind and body allows the client to deal with unfinished business and express unresolved emotion. Interactions with animals can facilitate this awareness, and clients may feel more comfortable talking to an animal than directly to a counselor (Chandler et al., 2010). Both canines and horses serve an important role by listening and being fully present with the client. In EAP, the horse(s) respond(s) to the client authentically and without judgment, providing a safe space for the client to explore their emotions (Kirby, 2010; Brandt, 2013). Gestalt therapy underscores that all experiences are relationally interpreted. While participating in EAP, the client’s relationship and interactions with the horse(s) provide opportunity for transference to be addressed and worked through (Kirby, 2010; Whitley, 2009; Brandt, 2013). In gestalt therapy, there is a need to use action-oriented techniques to intensify immediate experience to bring about awareness of current feelings (EAGALA manual, 2015). This can be facilitated by making up stories about the animal or by action-oriented activities with the animal (Chandler et al., 2010).
Group-based acceptance and commitment therapy to enhance graduate student psychological flexibility: Treatment development and preliminary implementation evaluation
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2023
Rivian K. Lewin, Samuel F. Acuff, Kristoffer S. Berlin, Jeffrey S. Berman, Amy R. Murrell
Awareness, acceptance, and willingness are integrated throughout treatment by calling attention to the clients’ present experiences. For example, as clients engage in group discussion, therapists routinely ask clients to pause and make space for the emotion behind their words. Therapists may ask clients to describe where in their bodies they notice sensations (e.g., their heart beating) or what shape/color their experience might take if they were to assign these properties (a Gestalt therapy technique often used throughout ACT sessions). Further, therapists regularly ask questions like, “Are you willing to feel that if it means getting closer to what matters to you?”. By consistently bringing awareness to the characteristics of their internal experience and questioning their willingness to hold on to certain experiences in the service of values, clients become accustomed to this type of interaction with their private selves.
A Philosophical Approach to the Rehabilitation of the Patient with Persistent Pain
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2020
I also teach a guided Choiceless awareness mindfulness meditation with hypnotic language (Appel, 2017). Described in Elkins’s Handbook of Medical and Psychological Hypnosis (Elkins, 2017), the meditation promotes the expansion of awareness to all senses simultaneously so that, paradoxically, the patient is aware of no one thing. While in trance it is also easy to employ Gestalt therapy projective techniques (Araoz, 1983; Perls, Hefferline & Goodman, 1965) where an imagined conversation with the muscle or body region helps discern the needs of the body and from a mind-body perspective learn what is being protected or what is repressed. At times it can be helpful to ask the patient while in trance what the affected body part would say if it could speak (e.g., “What would your neck tell you that it needs from you”).
Phenomenological consulting: A viable alternative for sport psychology practitioners
Published in Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 2018
Mark A. Hector, Johannes Raabe, Craig A. Wrisberg
First, because PC is more educational than clinical or therapeutic in nature, athletes' subjective descriptions are never questioned nor are athletes confronted over the possibility that their ways of thinking may be irrational or dysfunctional (as for example in REBT; Yontef & Jacobs, 2010). Second, in contrast to gestalt therapy, PC requires the use of follow-up verbal “probes” for obtaining additional depth and richness in athletes' descriptions rather than the employment of “awareness experiments.” Finally, unlike person-centered therapy, which minimizes the importance of individuals' past experiences (Torbin, 1991), PC is designed for the precise purpose of obtaining an in-depth understanding of those experiences from the athlete's own perspective.