◈ AI and Gestalt therapy
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Affidavit & Preamble

Affidavit

I, Markus Pöchinger, MA, hereby declare on my honour

  1. that I have written this written assignment independently, have not used any sources or resources other than those cited, and have not otherwise made use of any unauthorised assistance,

  2. that I have not previously submitted this written work in any form as an examination paper, either in Austria or abroad,

  3. that, where the paper relates to my employer, I have informed my employer of the title, form and content of the written paper and have obtained their consent.

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Preamble on Methodology and Authorship

In the preparation of this graduation thesis within the Integrative Gestalt Therapy section of the ÖAGG, the following artificial intelligence systems were used as methodological tools: Claude (Anthropic), Google Gemini and NotebookLM (Google), as well as Elicit. These were used responsibly in the following capacities:

Idea generation and dialogical examination: AI systems served as discussion partners in the spirit of a Socratic dialogue, enabling me to develop and test my own theses, concepts and lines of argument, and to run through counter-arguments.

Structuring and literature review: AI systems supported the work of organising the structure, conducting research, and processing and analysing the body of literature I had compiled myself. I personally verified all sources cited in the thesis against the originals. AI outputs were not used as academic sources at any point.

Writing assistance and proofreading: AI models were used to assist in transforming the bullet points, theses and chains of argument I had developed into a fluent academic style, as well as serving as a tool for phrasing and correction.

Editorial review: All text passages formulated with the aid of AI were critically edited by me in an iterative process, checked for subject-matter and contextual accuracy, modified in terms of content, and integrated into the overall context of the thesis. No unreflected or unverified content was adopted.

Intellectual authorship and responsibility: The research questions, the formulation of the research questions, the theory-building synthesis (such as the linking of philosophy of dialogue, resonance theory and Gestalt therapy), as well as all decisions regarding content, structure and editing are, without exception, my own intellectual work. I bear sole academic, substantive and legal responsibility for the entire thesis.