Gestalt psychotherapy

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noun

a therapy devised in the US in the 1960s in which patients are encouraged to concentrate on the immediate present and to express their true feelings

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Words nearby Gestalt psychotherapy

gestagen, gestalt, gestaltism, gestalt phenomenon, Gestalt psychology, Gestalt psychotherapy, gestalt therapy, Gestapo, Gesta Romanorum, gestate, gestation

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How to use Gestalt psychotherapy in a sentence

On set, my psychotherapy training greatly deepened the experience I had working with the writers, cast, and crew.
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LSD, an illicit drug with a serious stigma, was once the darling of the psychotherapy world.
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Not any specific feature of the series, but a sort of overall gestalt.
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And, this was very rewarding because it was better than any form of psychotherapy.
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But I have news for House Republicans that may help them more than years of psychotherapy or a crate of Paxil: You may still win.
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Later on two other physicians, Janet and Charcot, developed definite schools of "psychotherapy."
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Or take the still more fascinating case of the young lady who is known in the literature of psychotherapy as Miss Beauchamp.
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"Dreaming of you, of course," he said to the flesh-clad skeleton behind the total gestalt Judy.
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Psychotherapy is as old as the history of medicine and may be traced to the earliest ages.
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Then there comes an emphatic expression of the value of psychotherapy.
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