What is the gestalt exercises all about in terms of psychology?
The aim of the Gestalt approach is for a person to discover, explore and experience his or her own shape, pattern and wholeness. Analysis may be a part of the process, but the aim of Gestalt is the integration of all disparate parts. In this way people can let themselves become totally what they already are, and what they potentially can become. This fullness of experience can then be available to them both in the course of their life and in the experience of a single moment. The Gestalt approach originated in the existential – humanistic tradition of psychology. Practitioners sharing this viewpoint characteristically hold that it is impossible to engage in a counseling relationship without involving your values and your basic view of human nature. In this sense Gestalt is essentially a ‘third force’ humanistic psychology. It flowered in the 1950’s and 1960’s and has grown to professional, theoretical and ethical maturity in the 1980’s If you would like to know any more, read Gestalt c
