Essential Gestalt Concepts
Overviews of ten essential concepts written by Shea Stevens:
Connections and Themes:
These essential concepts are all interconnected. Here are some themes according to which they can be grouped together:
Theme #1: Organismic Self-Regulation/ Healthy Functioning/ Creative Adjustment.
Relevant blog posts: Awareness, Change and Self-Regulation, Gestalt Cycle, Contact & Boundary, Polarities & Integration
Theme #2: Self as Process/ Self at the Boundary.
Relevant blog posts: Field Theory, Gestalt Cycle, Self, Contact & Boundary, Holism
Theme #3: Phenomenological Inquiry/ Immediate Awareness/ Present Moment
Relevant blog posts: Awareness, Phenomenology
Theme #4: Existential Phenomenology/ Dialogic Relationship
Relevant blog posts: Awareness, Self, Phenomenology, Dialogue
Theme #5: Holism
Relevant blog posts: Field Theory, Holism