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Self-concept/self-esteem; gender issues in education; women & education; pupil motivation; social comparisons in the classroom; transitions in education.
What do you see for the future of Gestalt therapy?
I think Gestalt therapy offers the ability to develop individuals who accept their powers, their talents, their abilities, and then to use these talents and abilities to allow them to experiment. As a matter of fact, one doesn't know one's talents and one's abilities unless one experiments with them. Because then you develop new creations of one kind or another. New art forms. New gestalts, let's say. That jump, as it were, from one stage to another. I think that there are people who are Gestalt therapists who are successful in helping to develop individuals who practice. Because the word practice is the important word, in the sense that one practices what he believes in. If there were more time for the world, there would be more and more people who could be involved in developing something that the world needs very much. And that is the development of the individual talent of each citizen into whatever is the gestalt of the social comedy at any given time. In a sense the people who participate in a successful therapy will be people who would make somewhat larger contributions. And even if it weren't successful to the whole world, the majority of the world or even more than a small piece of the world here and there and everywhere, that would be very useful and very nice and would be an asset and would help civilization make some progress.
[Edited by Freya on 16th March 2002 at 07:25]
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2nd January 2002, 23:35
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