Influence of phenomenology and existentialism on Gestalt therapy

Perceptual organization: Gestalt phenomena, psychophysics and phenomenology

Perceptual organization is a vague term sometimes defined as the process by which we perceive our surroundings as a coherent whole. There is considerable debate about the mechanisms that accomplish perceptual organization. There is also disagreement about the methods we use to study perceptual organization. We believe that some of this disagreement is related to a commonly accepted hierarchical...

Gestalt psychology and Gestalt therapy.

[This paper was a presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September 1975. It was first published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, pp 23-32, then republished in M. Henle, 1879 and All That, Essays in the Theory and History of Psychology, Columbia University Press, New York 1986, pp 22-35. Have a look at th...

Part IV PHENOMENOLOGY , HERMENEUTICS , EXISTENTIALISM , AND CRITICAL THEORY

Gestalt Psychology and Gestalt Therapy

This paper was a presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September 1975. It was first published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, pp 23-32, then republished in M. Henle, 1879 and All That, Essays in the Theory and History of Psychology, Columbia University Press, New York 1986, pp 22-35. Have a look at the...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...