Author Question: In Gestalt theory, what happens when through life experience we discover that some parts of ... (Read 17 times)

sheilaspns · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

In Gestalt theory, what happens when through life experience we discover that some parts of ourselves are unacceptable?

a. They are naturally integrated through social contact.
b. Therapy provides us the avenue for healing.
c. We generally work to change those parts.
d. We fragment ourselves and deny that part of ourselves, leaving us less than whole.
e. Our family of origin gives us the strength to accept those parts of us that we disdain.

Question 2

According to Gestalt psychotherapy, people have problems because

a. they have not been living an authentic life.
b. unconscious physiological drives are constantly at odds with societal expectations.
c. they are cut off from parts of themselves that they need for wholeness, integration, and balance.
d. most are unable to negotiate the medical challenges they are faced with.
e. they do not know who they are and what their lifes work is to be.