Psychotherapy process and Gestalt research

Studies strains in a live relationship and how they are repaired.

Region: Between two people
Distance: Near
Studies what a circle does, in live interaction.
Scale: Two people · A small group (3–12)
Researchers to read first: J. Christopher Muran, Catherine F. Eubanks, Leslie S. Greenberg and Jan Roubal
Where they meet: European Association for Gestalt Therapy · Society
Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration · Society
Society for Psychotherapy Research · Society

7 works from this field, lit on the map

Moves it sheds light on

Our reading. None of these fields tests a move inside a circle.

Impact
Studies what happens when someone names how the relationship is going, right then, and how strains get repaired.
Welcome all
Gestalt’s paradoxical theory says change comes from fully being what one is: a stance the field inherited, not a finding.
Beisser · 1970

Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
Perls et al. · 1951
The Paradoxical Theory of Change
Beisser · 1970
Conceptual work
The Rules and Games of Gestalt Therapy
Levitsky & Perls · 1970
Description of a practice
Nonverbal synchrony in psychotherapy: Coordinated body movement reflects relationship quality and outcome.
Ramseyer & Tschacher · 2011
Observational study104 sessions from 70 patients in same-sex patient–therapist pairings
The client “experiencing” scale as a predictor of treatment outcomes: A meta-analysis on psychotherapy process
Pascual-Leone & Yeryomenko · 2017
Review10 studies covering 406 clients
Gestalt Therapy Effectiveness: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence
Raffagnino · 2019
Review11 studies selected from 295 full textsCautions: Questionable publisher · One person screened · No quality appraisal
Research on Humanistic-Experiential Psychotherapies: Updated Review
Elliott et al. · 2021
Review91 studies published 2009–2018Cautions: Studied by its developers