Psychotherapy Notes

                            Gestalt therapy Individuals must be understood with the context of their ongoing relationship with the environment Awareness, choice and responsibility are cornerstone of the practice Contemporary gestalt therapy called as relational gestalt therapy. Emotion focused therapy developed by Leslie Greenberg is related to gestalt therapy Views of human nature   Fritz Pearls practices Gestalt therapy paternalistically. Clients have to grow up ,stand up their feet and deal with their problems by themselves. This has two agendas: 1. Moving client from environmental support to self support 2. Reintegrating the disowned part of the personality Therapy aims at   awareness and contact with the environment which consists of contact with both internal and external world. The process of reowning parts of oneself that has been disowned and the unification process procee...

EXISTENTIAL   THERAPY Existential therapy can best be described as a philosophical approach that influences a counsellor’s therapeutic practice. Existential therapy focuses on exploring themes such as mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, anxiety, and aloneness as these relate to a person’s current struggle. The goal of existential therapy is to assist clients in their exploration of the existential “givens of life,” how these are sometimes ignored or denied, and how addressing them can ultimately lead to a deeper, more reflective and meaningful existence. The existential approach rejects the deterministic view of human nature espoused by traditional psychoanalysis and radical behaviourism Although deterministic forces affect us and we sometimes cannot control external events thrust upon us, existential therapists believe we retain the freedom to choose how we respond to such events. Existential therapy is grounded on the assumption that we are free and t...