🌳 I was asked many times: what is gestalt therapy and why have I chosen it.
🌳 The answer is complicated and consists of many parts, as 3D puzzles are.
🌳 But one of the simplest answers could be “gestalt approach is very close to my personal philosophy".
Just one of examples: from early childhood I was facing the desire and impossibility to understabd people and to be understood 100%.
I was never satisfied with any language, any metaphor, any level of explanations. My dream was actually understanding at the extra sensitive, mind-reading level.
🌳 And what one finds in gestalt? - phenomenology. That’s what I believe in.
🌳 To illustrate the idea I am sharing a quote from one of books I read: “in our individual uniqueness we can only ever get experience near to another, we can never completely and utterly comprehend the other’s experience. To gain the best understanding possible of the other we need to appreciate the way they conf igure themselves in relation to their environment, the patterns they paint as they relate to their world and those they meet in their world, the way they form and shape their experience” (Dave Mann).
That’s why gestalt.
One of reasons.