Gestalt psychology

The main problem with Gestalt psychology is that it assumes that the relation between figure and background is fixed, when the background is constituted by our corporeal schema. What makes the figure and background so significant for us is the movement of our bodies around said background: the movement of our head or eyes, or body in general around the background. The problem with Gestalt psychology is that ends up as a descriptive, second-order reflection precisely…

Treatment of Psychological Disorders Ali Haynes Principles of Psychology. Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-8:50 p.m. Abstract To treat psychological disorders, psychotherapy is commonly used. Psychotherapy is the treatment of psychological disorders through talking and other psychological methods (Bernstein, 2014). There are several types of psychotherapy. Those types are: psychodynamic psychotherapy, humanistic psychotherapy, behavior therapy, and cognitive behavior therapy.…

There are three different ways to handle anxiety disorder, behavioral, humanistic, and cognitive. Behavior is learning from ones surroundings, humanistic is making choices from one’s self, and cognitive is how one thinks. A Behavioral Psychologist may imply that Jake learns from his surroundings. The whole concept is learned through classical and operant conditionings. Jake has learned that when he brings good grades home his parents reward him and when he brings bad grades home they scold him…

mind and body are separate and fueled later research on the nervous system and its relationship to the mind and brain. It can also be argued that these contributions paved the path for modern behavioral psychology and more specifically the concept of stimulus-response. This type of psychology focuses on how people behave. Modern behavioral psychologists test this idea that the brain in responsible for behavior and thinking by manipulating situations and studying…

Structuralism Structuralism was the foremost school of thought in the history of psychology. Structuralism seeks to understand the structure, that is, the configuration of components of the mind and its perceptions by analyzing those perceptions into their constituent components e.g. affection, attention, memory, sensation and so on. Structuralists were interested in deconstructing the mind into its elementary components and how those elementary components work together to create the mind.…

throughout Riley’s conscious and subconscious Joy discovers that Sadness is essential so that Riley can feel Joy. At the end of the movie, Joy and Sadness make it back to the control center and Riley can once again feel her entire range of emotion. As a psychology major, this film really intrigued me. I was a generally happy child like most, but I was also fortunate enough to have parents that taught me that it is ok to cry, get angry, be envious, fear things – so long as I had a balance. On the…

approaches, gestalt therapy is a lot less structured and much more philosophical. Perls (1969) has been quoted saying ‘One of the objections I have against anyone calling himself a gestalt therapist is that he uses a technique, a technique is a gimmick’ This being said gestalt therapists are encouraged to create their own means of assisting the client towards experiencing awareness and meaningful contact with the self and others. One of the exercises that may be used for a client in gestalt…

between therapist and client Existential therapist believe that rapport is important within itself because of the quality of the person-person encounter in the therapeutic situation, it brings stimulus for positive change (Corey, 2001). Awareness in Gestalt…

Abraham Maslow, an influential humanistic psychologist, was born on April 1st, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. Maslow is known as the “father of American humanism” for broadening psychology with theories on self-actualization and human potential. He completely supported a humanistic approach that highlights individual development and provides a specific understanding on behavior and mental processes. Throughout his career, Maslow stressed that experience is the primary tool in learning about the…

At the age of seventeen, Maslow attended City College of New York where he studied law, following his parents’ wishes. Maslow later transferred to the University of Wisconsin and fell in love with psychology and behaviorism. He then married his first cousin, Bertha, with whom he had two children. During his semesters at the University of Wisconsin, he met a psychologist named Harry Harlow. Together, they studied monkeys in Harlow’s lab. They both were very interested in the monkeys’ attachment…