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Gestalt Therapy

Clinical Psychology

Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make in response to their overall situation. It was developed by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s and 1950s, and was first described in the 1951 book Gestalt Therapy. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Central Question
How can a person achieve psychological wholeness by fully attending to present-moment awareness of thought, feeling, and bodily sensation, rather than to the past? 1
Founded Year
1951 1
Dated here to the 1951 publication of Perls, Hefferline and Goodman's founding text Gestalt Therapy; the approach itself was developed by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman across the 1940s and 1950s rather than at one single moment.
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Schema Therapy, Schools and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Schema therapy

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Clinical Psychology, Branches of Psychology
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1. Wikipedia: Gestalt Therapy
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    was developed by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s and 1950s, and was first described in the 1951 book Gestalt Therapy
  • Overview section
    It was developed by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s and 1950s, and was first described in the 1951 book Gestalt Therapy.
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Wikipedia: Schema therapy
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Schema therapy is an integrative psychotherapy combining original theoretical concepts and techniques with those from pre-existing models, including cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, Gestalt therapy, constructivism, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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