Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy

Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy (GTP) is a method of psychotherapy based strictly on Gestalt psychology, its origins going back to the 1920s when Gestalt psychology's founder Max Wertheimer, Kurt Lewin and their colleagues and students began applying holistic and systems-theoretical Gestalt psychology concepts to psychopathology and clinical psychology. Through holism, a person's thinking, feeling, actions, perceptions, attitudes and logical operations are treated as one unity, and many later developments in psychotherapy drew on these early beginnings, including group psychoanalysis under S. H. Foulkes, Gestalt therapy under Laura Perls, Fritz Perls and Paul Goodman among others, and katathym-imaginative psychotherapy under Hanscarl Leuner.