Gestalt Therapy: the art of closing cycles. Page.
We inform you that we have introduced the page with the article “Gestalt Therapy: the art of closing cycles”. We thank Professor Joan Garriga for preparing it, Professor Chus Borrell for offering the article, and Loto Perrella for its translation.
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Gestalt Therapy: the art of closing cycles.
Many of us have cycles in our lives that we don’t know how to put an end to. Traumatic events of childhood, some family trends, inadequacies or excesses in our upbringing, injustices, losses, and so on, which may cause future constraints, dependence and depression. Gestalt coaxes us to become conscious of our patterns, of the character we have created for ourselves, and helps us to close cycles properly. We are in front of a shop window and we see something we like. What happens when we focus our attention on that object? We see it, we appreciate it in the foreground, but behind it there is a background, a framework of thousands of things which may be there, or may be happening: there are many other things in the window, people inside the shop, people going by, a bus at the bus stop, two men talking at the corner… From the background, or from the structure, a shape has come forward which commands our attention and which stands in the foreground (…).
Text: Joan Garriga (director of Institut Gestalt Barcelona).
Thrapies, workshops and training in Lleida: Coaching Lleida & Isuri Gestalt Lleida. Chus Borrell Feliu.
Translation to English language: Loto Perrella.
Published on magazine Guía & Ocio Lleida. April 2005. No. 39. Pages 128-129.