Depression - A Gestalt Theoretical Perspective
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | British Gestalt Journal |
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| Web | http://www.britishgestaltjournal.com |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | depression; psychotherapy; gestalt therapy; therapeutic relationship |
| Description | Gestalt therapy with its focus on the process of ongoing therapeutic relationship can contribute to both the theoretical understanding and the treatment of depression. The diagnosis of depression is explained as a relational fenomenon in this article. Depression is seen as a pathological fixation of an initially useful mechanism of creative depressive adjustment. Fixed interpersonal patterns of depression manifest in the therapist-client relationship and there are also accesable for exploration and possible changes. |
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