When1: 1942
When2: 1969
Who: Fritz Perls [Perls, Fritz]
What: psychoanalyst
Where: Germany
works\ Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: A Revision of Freud's Theory and Method [1942]; Gestalt Therapy [1951: with Ralph Hefferline and Paul Goodman]; Gestalt Therapy Verbatim [1969]
Detail: He lived 1893 to 1970. He used psychotherapy {gestalt therapy, Perls} to emphasize, enhance, and complete figure-ground differentiation in gestalten related to patient needs. Patient tries to understand actions and sensations, which self can then control. Gestalt therapy often involves problem dramatization and training patient to become more aware of self and environment, using both observation and inference. Patient moves attention between different focuses {shuttling}. If patient suffers from repetition or compulsion, patient comes to a satisfactory conclusion. If patient has split personality, patient is more aware of actual personality experiences. Gestalt therapy tries to change current defensive and manipulative behaviors, confront patient with real feelings and problems, and force patient to learn how to behave in new circumstances. Gestalt therapy is most effective with socialized, restrained, and constricted individuals.
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