The Art of contact
A core concept in Gestalt therapy is the unifying idea of “contact”.
Relationship grows out of contact. Through contact people grow and form identities. Contact is the basis for change and a good starting point for getting to know yourself beyond defences.
The essence of human life is contact, a meeting with various kinds of others. Contact is where one person meets another person, or meets the outside world. Every organism is capable of effective and fulfilling contact with others in their environment and pursues ways of having contact with others so that the organism can survive and grow to maturity. All contact is creative and dynamic and, as such, each experience unfolds as a creative adjustment of the organism in the environment.
Image by Markus Baumeler from Pixabay“Nothing changes until it becomes what it is”
– Frederich Perls
Image by Alexandr Ivanov from PixabayIf contact is not interfered with disturbances of the contact boundary, the individual can grow, through assimilation of new experiences.
In therapy, the client is encouraged to experience his or her own feelings and behaviours in the here and now, and attention is brought to bear on the way contact is interrupted. The way in which he or she interrupts contact with the present environment is considered to be a significant factor in creating and maintaining dysfunctional patterns of behaviour.
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