Through research and exhaustive efforts over the years it has been found that more than 60%of the earth’s suffer from
stress and depression in their day to day life ,stress is a condition or
feeling experienced when a person perceives that the individual’s demands
exceeds the individuals capabilities .In order to reach out these people a method
had to be conjured to help the people to look inside themselves and to understand
the root of their problems .To do this first the individual need to discipline
their minds by making it devoid of all things ‘ stress’. Hence lead to the
enactment of the gestalt therapy techniques to
help people overcome their depressions and look forward to a new tomorrow.
Let’s
get to know more no gestalt
therapy techniques and treatment
for depression, Gestalt Therapy Techniques is a phenomenological-existential therapy founded by
Frederick and Laura Perl’s in the 1940s. Explanations
and interpretations are considered less reliable than what is directly
perceived and felt. Patients and therapists in Gestalt therapy dialogue,
that is, communicate their phenomenological perspectives. Differences in
perspectives become the focus of experimentation.tis is to make clients to
become aware of what they are doing, how they are doing it, and how they can
change themselves, and at the same time, to learn to accept and value
themselves.
Now lets look into the techniques practiced in
gestalt therapy ,firstly lets start with Phenomenology , Phenomenology is a
discipline that helps people stand aside from their usual way of thinking so
that they can tell the difference between what is actually being perceived and
felt in the current situation and what is residue from the past . The goal of Gestalt
phenomenological exploration is to bring about a person’s awareness, or insight
to the situation they are subjected to. According
to gestalt therapy, context affects experience, and a person cannot be fully understood
without understanding his or her context.
Gestalt
therapy also recognizes that forcing a person to change paradoxically results
in further distress and fragmentation. Rather, change results from acceptance
of what is.
Gestalt therapy also plays a crucial role in Treatment For Depression.
Gestalt therapy sessions do not follow specific guidelines;
in fact, therapists are encouraged to use creativity in their approaches,
depending on context and each person's personality.
The empty chair technique and the exaggeration exercise are two of many gestalt
therapy techniques used to help people in therapy increase their awareness of
immediate experiences. Through exercises and
spontaneous experiments, gestalt therapy also allows people reconnect with
parts of themselves they may ignore . Thus opening up new possibilities and
shine a new more vibrant ray of hope
into their lives.
