Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt literally translates to ‘unified whole’. It is a psychological term that hypotheses that people tend to organise visual elements into groups or ‘unified wholes’ when a certain principle is applied. Basically, the whole is different from the sum of its parts.
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Gestalt belongs to the pattern or model of a set of elements, and Gestalt psychologists consider that organisms unconsciously perceive whole models or patterns and not just some pieces of it. When trying to make sense of the world around us, Gestalt psychology suggests that we do not simply focus on every small component