Gestalt Excerpts
Fritz Perls,
Eye Witness to Therapy,
Science and Behavior Books, Inc. 1973
tttthe obvioussss
"I would like to call Gestalt Therapy the philosophy of the obvious. We take the obvious for granted. But when we examine the obvious a bit closer, then we see that behind what we call obvious, is a lot of prejudice, distorted faith, beliefs and so on. But in order to get and understand the obvious, we have to first get hold of the obvious, and that is the greatest difficulty. We all want to be clever or hide, or intend to be something worthwhile, and so on."
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"When we are in touch with the world, then something happens. What makes us get in touch with the world is the emerging Gestalt, the emerging need, and the emerging unfinished situation. And if we cannot cope with the situation, we look for support -- something, somebody to help us to cope. And that support can be secured by manipulating the environment, by crying for help, by playing hopeless, playing crybaby or controlling the world. Or we get the support from within ourselves -- we withdraw ourselves to find this support. And we always find something when we withdraw. We might find the support from the self, or we might only find the support from our fantasy life. That support has to be thoroughly examined because that support might be a catastrophic expectation. That support might say -- don't cope; if you cope it might be dangerous. Or the support will say -- oh yes, grab it, it will be heaven."
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