Gestalt Excerpts
Arnold Beisser,
"The Paradoxical Theory of Change"
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"The Gestalt therapist rejects the role of 'changer,' for his strategy is to encourage, even insist, that the patient be where and what he is. He believes change does not take place by 'trying,' coercion, or persuasion, or by insight, interpretation, or any other such means. Rather, change can occur when the patient abandons, at least for the moment, what he would like to become and attempts to be what he is. The premise is that one must stand in one place in order to have firm footing to move and that it is difficult or impossible to move without that footing."
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"The person seeking change by coming to therapy is in conflict with at least two warring intrapsychic factions. He is constantly moving between what he 'should be' and what he thinks he 'is,' never fully identifying with either. The Gestalt therapist asks the person to invest himself fully in his roles, one at a time. Whichever role he begins with, the patient soon shifts to another. The Gestalt therapist asks simply that he be what he is at the moment."
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"The Gestalt therapist further believes that the natural state of man is as a single, whole being -- not fragmented into two or more opposing parts. In the natural state, there is constant change based on the dynamic transaction between the self and the environment."
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"For the first time in the history of mankind, man finds himself in a position where, rather than needing to adapt himself to an existing order, he must be able to adapt himself to a series of changing orders. For the first time in the history of mankind, the length of the individual life span is greater than the length of time necessary for major social and cultural change to take place. Moreover, the rapidity with which this change occurs is accelerating."
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