Application Assignment: Gestalt Therapy
Week 2 Application Assignment: Gestalt Therapy
7.1 Defining the Core Constructs of Gestalt Therapy.
When Helen reclaims her seat as Helen in the experiment, the therapist asks her to respond to her mother. What evidence do you see that would indicate that Helen has polarized thinking around her mother's expectations of her?
Helen feel anger, pain, fear, or hurt but never show it, she internalize her pain and kept it inside. The therapist asks her to respond to her mother Sara, the anger she feels for her mom. Helen respond to her mother by saying to her mother that she can’t stop being there for her Helen feels disconnected from her mother. When she goes back to her seat she tells her mother she wanted her to feel please about her Helen feels she was good and wanted acceptance. Helen wanted her mother to be please that she was good.
Later in the clip, Helen discusses her relationship with her father. Consider the concept of contact in Gestalt therapy, and describe how Helen experiences her father. What defense mechanism might she be using to avoid this contact?
Helen relationship with her father is that she feels that it is not fair that he was not there for her and her siblings Helen feels he didn’t make any sacrifices. Helen feels that her father was never there to help her with her with the relationship she had with her mother because he was working all the time. I believe the defense she uses for her father is that he had to work so that is why he was not there for her and her siblings, Helen feels it is her father’s fault that her brother is mess up and she avoids being angry with her father with not being there for her brother and the family but she is really upset that he wasn’t there to save her from her mother. Helen feels she cannot tell her mother how angry she is at her, I think Helen might feel her mother took anger out on her because the father was not there all the time, Helen is angry with her father because he was not there but she
7.1 Defining the Core Constructs of Gestalt Therapy.
When Helen reclaims her seat as Helen in the experiment, the therapist asks her to respond to her mother. What evidence do you see that would indicate that Helen has polarized thinking around her mother's expectations of her?
Helen feel anger, pain, fear, or hurt but never show it, she internalize her pain and kept it inside. The therapist asks her to respond to her mother Sara, the anger she feels for her mom. Helen respond to her mother by saying to her mother that she can’t stop being there for her Helen feels disconnected from her mother. When she goes back to her seat she tells her mother she wanted her to feel please about her Helen feels she was good and wanted acceptance. Helen wanted her mother to be please that she was good.
Later in the clip, Helen discusses her relationship with her father. Consider the concept of contact in Gestalt therapy, and describe how Helen experiences her father. What defense mechanism might she be using to avoid this contact?
Helen relationship with her father is that she feels that it is not fair that he was not there for her and her siblings Helen feels he didn’t make any sacrifices. Helen feels that her father was never there to help her with her with the relationship she had with her mother because he was working all the time. I believe the defense she uses for her father is that he had to work so that is why he was not there for her and her siblings, Helen feels it is her father’s fault that her brother is mess up and she avoids being angry with her father with not being there for her brother and the family but she is really upset that he wasn’t there to save her from her mother. Helen feels she cannot tell her mother how angry she is at her, I think Helen might feel her mother took anger out on her because the father was not there all the time, Helen is angry with her father because he was not there but she