Transference Gestalt
There are a couple of concepts within Gestalt that I have found difficult to get down so I will be writing about those in the next couple of posts.
Transference gestalt. In Gestalt many spontaneous tranferential phenomena can of course be found. The methods of transference examined and worked through as soon as it arises are not supported in Gestalt therapy Polster 1968. Techniques provides a concise guide to this flexible and far-reaching approach.
Gestalt therapy works for understanding by using the active healing presence of the therapist and the patient in a relationship based on true contact. Transference neurosis is the main force behind cure. Bertragung is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which the feelings a person had about their parents as one example are unconsciously redirected or transferred to the present situation.
712015 When transference does arise Gestalt therapists use what they call empty chair dialogues to avoid transferring past relationships onto the therapist. The client enacts both roles so that unresolved feelings from the past are transferred onto an internal object rather than onto the therapist Nielsen 1980. According to Anna Freud transference is everything that is not new in a therapy.
An outgrowth of Freuds conception of transference countertransfer-ence was originally viewed as a disruptive force in psychotherapy one which interfered with the therapists professional neutrality and objectivity. In Gestalt classically we understand both as projections. Transference creates an emotional time warp taking you back in time often but not always to childhood with all the attendant thoughts and feelings.
3222018 After looking at transference I have moved on for now and have been looking into Gestalt therapy. Transfer of learning occurs when people apply information strategies and skills they have learned to a new situation or context. The boundary disturbances in Gestalt therapy most closely related to the analytic notion of transference are projection introjection and confluence.
Material brought into the room from outside the therapy situation by the therapist or the therapists response to the clients transference. Transfer is not a discrete activity but is rather an integral part of the learning process. These are more complex ideas than they seem.
