THEORY OF GESTALT THERAPY

DIALOGUE AWARENESS
presence Biological,
inclusion psychological, social
nonexploitation &spiritual
CHANGE commitment based on: primary
Occurs by I it, I though need context-
becoming Contact cycle aggression
who/how isolation
one is rather withdrawal
Than by contactintimacy,. PHENOMENOLOGY
trying to be confluence Phenomenological method
different Bracketing, describing,
horizontalization
ORGANISMIC SELF REGULATION
Figure-ground forming & destructing

FIELD THEORY
Everything is of the field, everything Contact interruptions
Introjecting, deflecting,
interrelated, everything changing, retroflecting,proflecting,
everything present that explains projecting, confluence
behavior, find whole represented
again and again, field has a history

EXISTENTIALISM
existence precedes essence ,
always in process of becoming,
valuing the present moment, not
knowing what will happen,
awareness of evolving
possibilities, uniqueness of
experience, responsibility to
others.

LIV ESTRUP , 1997