What do Gestalt therapy and Gestalt theory have to do with each other?
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ABSTRACT:
Some Gestalt theoreticians don't want anything to do with the "unspeakable" Fritz Perls and with what he first called Gestalt therapy. Conversely, some Gestalt therapists stress that, even though Perls was inspired towards his therapeutic approach by Gestalt theory, other influences go beyond the allegedly non-political Gestalt theory which is "reduced to a psychology of perception". The author believes that neither view does justice to the Gestalt therapy practised by Fritz Perls.
Evidence is given that the decisive concepts, on which Perls's criticism of psychoanalysis, where his roots are, and also his own approach is based, are taken from Gestalt theory. If Gestalt theory were to dissociate itself from the Gestalt therapy of Fritz Perls, the result would equal a denial of its own central positions. In order to delimit ourselves from the "Gestalt gibberish" which arose as a result of some (epistemologically deficient) theoretical statements made by Perls the use of the term "Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy" is introduced.
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