Gestalt Therapy

1. when external support is not available; customary way of being does not work
3. a dynamic system of interrelationships
8. consists of turning back onto ourselves what we would like to do to someone else
9. blurring lines between self and environment
10. holistic theory of perception and cognition (the topic!)
12. how the individual organizes experience from moment to moment
13. process of distraction or veering off; to move attention elsewhere

2. grounded in the notion that people are in the process of becoming
4. tendency to uncritically accept others' beliefs and standards without assimilating them
5. perspective that individuals should be understood as complete, unified systems
6. the science of phenomena
7. the reverse of introjection
11. knowing the environment, knowing oneself, accepting oneself, and being able to make contact