Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy – A Clinical Example

Is clinical gestalt good enough?

Gestalt Effects in Planning: Rush-Hour as an example

Planning problems have been extensively studied with regard to graph theoretical properties such as the number of steps necessary to reach a specific goal state or the size of the problem space. These structural properties, however, do not completely characterize a problem. In the presented eye-tracking study we also investigated the influence of perceptual factors on the solution to a planning...

Relational Gestalt Therapy: Theoretical foundations and dialogical elements

Gestalt psychotherapy in the outpatient treatment of borderline personality disorder: a case report.

52 Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is the most frequent and the most severe of all personality disorders in clinical practice. Although BPD bears the reputation of being " untreatable " , psychotherapy for patients with BPD has been the treatment of choice. 1,2 A number of papers show the use and effectiveness of various psychotherapeutic approaches. 3-10 This article presents the use of ...

How does psychotherapy influence personality? A theoretical integration.

A given type of psychotherapy (e.g., psychodynamic) is associated with a set of specific change techniques (e.g., interpreting defenses, identifying relationship themes). Different change techniques can be conceived of as influencing different parts of personality (e.g., interpreting defense increases conscious awareness). An integrated model of personality is presented. Then, change techniques...