|
Source |
Category |
Page |
Quotation |
|
Perls et al |
Confluence |
P451 |
Confluence is the
condition of no-contact |
|
Lobb 2000 |
Contact |
|
Contact is the end
of self |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P073 |
Your sense of
unitary interfunctioning of you and your environment is
contact, and the process of
contacting is the forming and sharpening of the
figure/ground contrast. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P073 |
For you as a living
being contact is, then, ultimate reality |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P118 |
Every healthy
contact involves awareness (perceptual figure/ground) and
excitement (increased energy mobilization) |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P229 |
Experience is
ultimately contact, the functioning of the boundary of the
organism and its environment |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P230 |
Primarily, contact
is the awareness of, and behaviour toward, the assimilable
novelty; and the rejection of the inassimilable novelty
|
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P230 |
All contact is
creative and dynamic . . . because it must cope with the
novel . . . cannot passively accept or merely adjust
to the novel, because the novel must be assimilated |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P230 |
All contact is
creative adjustment of the organism and environment |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Contact |
P373 |
Contacting is,
generally, the growing of the organism. By contacting we
mean … in general every function that must be primarily
considered as occurring at the boundary in an
organism/environment field. |
|
Philippson |
Contact |
P008 |
. . . “if I am in
good contact with my environment, I am more likely to
achieve my wants and needs”, as opposed to “the achievement
of these wants and needs takes precedence over the making of
contact” |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Creative Adjustment |
P371 |
… deploying the
activity of the self as a temporal process, …
fore-contact, contacting, final-contact, and post-contact; …
is an account of the nature of creative-adjustment growth |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Creative Adjustment |
P404 |
It is the work of
creative adjustment that heightens awareness of what one
wants |
|
Wheeler 2000 |
Creative Adjustment |
P167 |
In this whole-field
process view the creative adjustment, the living integrative
principle or process in action, is not just something done
by a self that is pre-existent: it is the self, the
self which is ‘given in contact’ |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Creativity |
P230 |
what is assimilated
is always novel[i] |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Creativity |
P231 |
Creativity and adjustment are polar[ii] |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Creativity |
P367 |
Creativity is
inventing
a new solution; inventing it both as finding it and as
devising it; … |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Creativity |
P406 |
For the most part,
however, we may consider the self’s creativity and the
organism/environment adjustment as polar: one cannot exist
without the other[iii] |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Creativity |
P407 |
Creativity without
outgoing adjustment remains superficial (because) the
excitement of the unfinished situation is not drawn on (and)
it is in manipulating the resistant that the self becomes
involved and engaged |
|
Philippson |
Cycle of Contact |
P042 - 045 |
Forecontact,
Contacting, Final Contact, Post-contact |
|
Philippson |
Ego |
P130 |
Ego is the active
process of moving towards some aspects of the environment
(identification) and away from other (alienation) |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Excitement |
P037 ?? |
The sense of this
formative process, the dynamic relation of ground and
figure, is excitement: excitement is the feeling of the
forming of the figure-background in contact situations, as
the unfinished situation tends to its completion. |
|
McLeod 1993 |
Gestalt |
P26 |
It the foundation of
a psychology without a psyche |
|
Lobb 2000 |
Gestalt Theory |
|
What is specific to
our theory is that the self is regarded in the medial
position between organism and the environment, which is to
say, in a uniquely relational position |
|
McLeod |
Growth |
P27 |
In the “spontaneous
absorption of final contact” (Perls et al 1951 p.418),
occurs the assimilation through which the self functions as
the organ of growth (ibid p.229 |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Growth |
P368 |
…growing, the self
risks – risks it with suffering if it has long avoided
risking it and therefore must destroy many prejudices,
introjects, attachments to the fixed past, securities, plans
and ambitions; risks it with excitement if it can accept
living in the present |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Growth |
P372? |
An organism
preserves itself only by growing
Self preserving and
growing are polar |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Growth |
P373 |
… materials and
energy of growth are: the conservative attempt of the
organism to remain as it has been, the novel environment,
the destruction of previous partial equilibria, and the
assimilation of something new. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Knowledge |
P367 |
Knowledge is the
form of what has already occurred |
|
Philippson |
Middle mode |
P035 |
. . . what we are
looking at is an equal cooperative effort between me and my
environment, where there is no ‘doer’ and no ‘done to’ (or
alternatively there is both). This is the ‘middle mode’:
neither active nor passive. |
|
Philippson |
Middle mode |
P035 |
The other name for
this is spontaneity. |
|
Wheeler 2000 |
Perception |
P87 |
Every perception is
in a real sense a hypothesis, a trial organisation of
data (literally, “givens”). We’re “wired” to make this kind
of estimation, and to integrate it into an even wider, ever
more complex and coherent picture of the world: this is our
gestalt nature. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Personality |
P378 |
The personality is
the created figure that the self becomes and assimilates to
the organism, uniting it with the results of previous growth |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Personality |
P382 |
The personality is
the system of attitudes assumed in interpersonal relations.
Personality is essentially a verbal replica of the self.
Thus personality is the responsible structure of the self |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Personality |
P423 |
The aftermath of
creative social contact is the formation of personality |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Personality |
P427 |
In ideal
circumstances the self does not have much personality. It
is the sage of Tao that is “like water”, assuming the form
of the receptacle.
Where the self has
much personality, we have seen, it is because either it
carries with it many unfinished situations … or it has
abdicated altogether and feels itself in the attitudes
towards itself that it has introjeced. |
|
Lobb 2000 |
Self |
|
The self … is
conceived in Gestalt Therapy as an experiential event
which takes place in the phenomenal actuality. |
|
Lobb 2000 |
Self |
|
What is specific to
our theory is that the self is regarded in the medial
position between organism and the environment, which is to
say, in a uniquely relational position |
|
Lobb 2000 |
Self |
P001 |
The theory of self
in Gestalt therapy is epistemologically based on the paradox
of theorising the untheorisable, of grasping experience in
its very transitoriness.[iv]
. And the only route possible was phenomenology |
|
Lobb 2000 |
Self |
P001 – p002 |
The self is a
function of the organism-environment field; it is the
“experience of the field” of organism and environment[v],
it is the system of contacts at the boundary |
|
McLeod |
Self |
P26 |
This concept [of
self] is so significantly and so radically subversive of
most psychological thinking that it has yet to be fully
grasped and accepted, even by many Gestaltists. The concept
is, in its simplest form, that self is contact |
|
McLeod |
Self |
P26 |
Gestalt asserts,
rather, that humans each moment are engaged in the creation
and destruction of self. … its creation and destruction must
be amongst the most characteristic and significant aspects
of human living. |
|
McLeod |
Self |
P26 |
Self is, rather,
part of the world of process and time, discoverable only as
experience; discoverable, that is, only in contact |
|
McLeod 1993 |
Self |
P025 |
The deepest Gestalt
premise is that we create ourselves in our contact . . . our
very psychological existence is dependent on relationship |
|
McLeod 1993 |
Self |
P025 |
We are the contact
we make . . . it follows that self must be defined as
contact |
|
McLeod 1993 |
Self |
P026 |
Gestalt asserts,
rather, that humans at each moment are engaged in the
creation and destruction of self . . . indeed, is always in
the process of being created and destroyed |
|
McLeod 1993 |
Self |
P026 |
Self is, rather,
part of the world of process and time, discoverable only as
experience |
|
Perls 1957 |
Self |
|
The self is that
part of the field which is opposed to otherness |
|
Perls 1957 |
Self |
|
Self cannot be
understood other than through the field |
|
Perls 1957 |
Self |
|
The self is to be
found in the contrast with the otherness |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P235 |
Let us call the
“self” the system of contacts at any moment. As such the
self is flexibly various, for it varies with the dominant
organic needs and the pressing environmental stimuli; it is
the system of responses; … |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P235 |
The self is the
contact-boundary at work; its activity is forming figures
and grounds. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P235 |
It [self] is only a
small factor in the total organism/environment interaction,
but it plays the crucial role of finding and making the
meanings by which we grow. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P247 |
the self is
the system of creative adjustment |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P248 |
The self only finds
and makes itself in the environment. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P315 |
“personality” is
best taken as a formation of the self by a shared social
attitude. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P315 |
…the self, as the
system of excitement, orientation, manipulation, and various
identifications and alienations, is always original and
creative. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P367 |
The self is the
system of contacts in the organism/environment field; and
these contacts are the structured experience of the actual
present situation. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P371 |
we consider the self
as the function of contacting the actual transient present |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P372 |
An organism
preserves itself only by growing. Self-preserving and
growing are polar, … |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P373 |
The complex system
of contacts necessary for adjustment in the difficult field,
we call ‘self’. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P373 |
Self may be regarded
as at the boundary of the organism |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P373 |
The self is not to
be thought of as a fixed institution; it exists wherever and
whenever there is in fact a boundary interaction. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P373 |
The complex system
of contacts necessary for adjustment in the difficult field,
we call “self”. |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P374 |
… the self is
the figure/background process in contact-situations |
|
Perls et al 1951 |
Self |
P374 |
In contact
situations the self is the power that forms the gestalt in
the field; or better, the self is the
figure/background process in contact-situat |
