Depression - A Gestalt Theoretical Perspective

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Authors

ROUBAL Jan

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source British Gestalt Journal
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
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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