Training Manual
2.b. Program curriculum
- GENARAL FOUNDATION OF GESTALT THERAPY
1.1. Philosophical foundations
German Philosophy
Existential Philosophy
Phenomenology
Holism
Zen and Tao
1.2. Overview of psychotherapies
Psychoanalysis
Analytical Therapy
Client centered Therapy
Existential Psychotherapy
Constructivist Psychotherapy
Paradoxical Theory of Change
1.3 Psychological foundations
Gestalt Psychology
Psychology of personality
1.4. Development of Gestalt Therapy
From beginning until today
- THEORY OF GESTALT THERAPY
2.1 Organism/Environment Field
Organism Self – regulation (Goldstein)
Field Theory (K. Lewin)
Field in process in Gestalt therapy
The client / therapeutic field
2.2 Figure /Ground Formation
Awareness
Sensory functioning in Gestalt therapy
Here and Now. Presence in Gestalt therapy
2.3 Contact
Contact boundaries (The experience of the between organism and environment)
Contact functions
Contact/withdrawal experience
Dimensions of time in contact experience
Contact phases and different view of Contact Cycle
Interruptions of Contact Cycle
-Confluence
-Deflection
-Introjections
-Projection
-Retroflection
-Egotism
2.4 Theory of Self
The Self in Gestalt Therapy
Self as process, function and Boundary event
The tree functions of the Self:
-ID function
-EGO Function
-PERSONALITY function
Polarities (Top dog/Underdog Experience)
Unfinished Business
2.5 Theory of Psychotherapy
I-Thou relation
The awareness of Here and Now
Dialog
- HUMAN ORGANISM AND ENVIRONMENT
Social Bases of Psychotherapy
Dogma of Gender, Identity and Social Roles
Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy
Political Psyche (What is psychical in politics and how does the psyche become politicized?)
3.1 The theories of Child Development
Object Relation development (R. Spitz, M. Klein, M. Mahler…)
Attachment Theories (Bowlby, Zazo…)
Social Learning (Bandura)
3.2 The Unfolding Self in Adolescents
3.3 Mid-Life Transformation
3.4 Dying and Death
Process of Separating, Mourning and Grieving
Psychotherapy and Spirituality
- METHODOLOGY OF GESTALY PSYCHOTHERAPY
4.1 Transition from Idea to Intervention (from observation to diagnosis through
continuum of experience to self functioning and healthy organism)
Experiment
Body Work
Dream Work
Imagination
Exercises
Art Work
4.2 Theory of Change
Paradoxical Theory of Change
Organism Self- Regulation in the Organism Environmental Field
Field Theory Principles and Theory of Change
Awareness and Theory of Change
Change and Meaning: The Figure/Ground Formation
Importance of Here and Now
Impediments of Healthy change
4.3 Research in Psychotherapy
Research papers on Gestalt Therapy in clinical practice
- DIAGNOSIS
5.1 Gestalt Approach in Diagnosis and Assessment
Client in the Field
Client in the Relationship with Therapist and Significant Others (Transference, Counter transference)
Client History (personal, family, social, medical)
5.2 Psychiatric Assessment DSM-IV of ICD/MKB 10
Classification (symptom & syndrome)
5.3 Communication between Gestalt assessment and DSM –IV
General Overview-Usage of Gestalt Diagnosis
5.4 Controversy over Diagnosis/Assessment: Categorical or Dimensional Approach
Some Ethical Issues
What Health really means?
- DIFFERENT CLINICAL APPROACHES
6.1 Theories of Psychopathology – Overview of: Neurosis, Personality Disorders, Psychosis
6.2 Gestalt therapy understanding of: Neurosis, Personality Disorders, Psychosis
6.3 Differential Diagnosis
- APPLICATION OF GESTALT PSYCHOTHERAPY
7.1 Gestalt therapy Approach – Individual and group psychotherapy, Couple therapy
7.2 Family therapy
7.3 Gestalt therapy Approach to Addiction
7.4 Gestalt therapy Approach to Psychosomatic Unit
7.5 Gestalt therapy approach to Life Span
Gestalt Approach to Children
Gestalt Approach to Adolescents
Gestalt Approach to Mid – age
Gestalt Approach to Elderly
7.6 Gestalt therapy Approach to Victims
- THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP
8.1 Client/Therapist Contract
8.2 Psychotherapeutic relationship
Transference
Counter transference
8.3 Dialog – Existential Dialog
8.4 Relationship with Ex-Clients
8.5 Formal and Physical Setting
- ETHICS
Ethical Issues in Psychotherapy
The Code of Ethics in Gestalt therapy
- DIFFERENT PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS APPROACHES
Jungian Analyze
Constructivist Psychotherapy
Family Constellation
Family Systemic Therapy
Psychodrama
Music Therapy
- POSTMODERN ISSUES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Hermeneutic Issues in Psychotherapy
Power Issues in helping Professions, Responsibility of Knowing, Norms and Deviations
Deconstructing Psychotherapy
