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Gestalt therapy is a type of psychotherapy or approach that is humanistic, dialogic, processual, phenomenological, existential and holistic.
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Gestalt therapy is a humanistic, dialogic, processual, phenomenological, existential and holistic based approach. It arose as a reaction to the reductionism and determinism of classical psychoanalysis, and today gestalt therapy represents an integrative system, a synthesis of psychoanalytic knowledge, phenomenology, gestalt psychology, the philosophy of existentialism, Buber's philosophy of dialogue, and Zen Buddhism and Taoism. Gestalt or form, figure, configuration or structural whole consists of several different parts where the goal of the Gestalt approach is to discover, explore and understand one's experience through dialogue, relation, awareness and experimentation.

Gestalt therapy places a strong emphasis on the process or on what one feels or perceives in the present rather than on content, analyses and interpretation. The uniqueness of the phenomenological perspective and the subjective diversity in the dialogic relationship between the client and the therapist are observed and respected where each individual freely and consciously becomes who he is while taking responsibility for his choices and actions.

Gestalt therapy is applied in a clinical setting and with various patient or diagnostic groups. Gestalt therapy is carried out in individual, couples, family, group, child and adolescent therapy, as well as in organizations and communities.
Literature:

• Clarkson, P. (1989). Gestalt Counseling in Action. London: Sage Publications.
• Perls, F. S., Hefferline, R. F. i Goodman, P. (1965). Gestalt therapy: Excitement and growth in the human personality. New York: Dell Pub. Co.
• Perls, F.S. (1976). The Gestalt Therapy Approach, and Eyewitness to Therapy. New York: Bantam.
• Radionov, T. (2013). Geštalt terapija. Zagreb: Naklada Slap.
• Yontef, G. (1993). Awareness, Dialogue & Process. Highland, NY: The Gestalt Journal Press.

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