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Ray Bruce The Gestalt Theory Foundation Course in Psychotherapy and Counselling Monday March 13th 2006 An essay submitted in partial fulfilment of the foundation course in psychotherapy and counselling. In this essay I will be explaining the principles of the Gestalt Therapy. I will describe how the therapy works in general and from my own interest I will highlight the creative element to Gestalt. The Founders of The Gestalt approach. The two main founders of the gestalt approach were Frederick (Fritz) Perls ( 1893-1970) and his wife Laura Perls ( 1905-1992). The Gestalt Therapy Gestalt is a German word meaning "pattern". Although there's no easily translated term in English, it's meaning loosely translates into "the whole picture". This is one of the main purposes of the Gestalt Therapy in that it's aim is to get a sense of the client as being a "whole" or what the client is actually about. Gestalt is an alternative humanistic approach, it focuses...

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