Gestalt Therapy is eclectic and one of the influences and sources of techniques was the famous psychologist and scholar Dr Carl Gustav Jung.
A bold thinker in many areas, Jung also was taken up by the counter culture in the heady affluent 1960's, as was Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy.
A bold thinker in many areas, Jung also was taken up by the counter culture in the heady affluent 1960's, as was Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy.
Dr Sigmund Freud was a seminal thinker and a pioneer of psychology (in the face of much hostility from vested interests) , whose theories are somewhat less esteemed nowadays but on whose shoulders people such as Wilhelm Reich, Carl Jung and Fritz Perls stood to go further.
Freud's ideas were by no means all wrong and still give powerful insights today. Forgive the cigar!
Freud's ideas were by no means all wrong and still give powerful insights today. Forgive the cigar!
Origin of Gestalt Therapy.
Gestalt Therapy is an existential practical therapy based on the work of Fritz Perls mainly, drawing on the work of Gestalt experimenters of the early twentieth century and other schools of psychotherapy.
Fritz Perls was also greatly influenced by Dr Wilhelm Reich with whom he was in training analysis in the psychoanalytic movement started by Sigmund Freud.
Other seminal contributors were Perls' wife Laura Perls, Ralph Hefferline and Paul Goodman.
Of course we have to give some credit to the original Gestalt researchers in the 1920's even though their concerns remained narrowly academic for the most part.
On the other pages of this website are articles on Gestalt and other schools of psychotherapy and some techniques which you can start experimenting with on yourself and others.
In my view Gestalt Therapy virtually contains the secret of life and you can learn it yourself if necessary, although attending some workshops and having some therapy would also be helpful, and go a long way with it.
See my other pages on this site to get more detailed Gestalt information.
Also I offer short courses on Gestalt Therapy and several Alternative Health modalities in Drummoyne in Sydney Australia.
Telephone (02) 9712-5275 home or email. See the contacts page for email address and the like.
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