Concept
Experiment
This quality finds its clinical expression in the Gestalt therapeutic experiment. It emerges from the material that arises in the encounter itself and is jointly brought forth by the client and the therapist (Fogarty et al., 2016, p. 40)
Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 3.3 — 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
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- Ch. 1.2 1.2 Problem statement and relevance
… nd seventy participants and subsequently discussed in plenary. Bauer (2026) documents the experiment and discussion in the journal *Gestalttherapie*. His conclusion identifies what the machi …
- Ch. 3 3 Gestalt therapy as relational medicine in practice
… nological approach, working with embodiment, field sensitivity, contact processes and the experimental attitude) are summarised in three guiding questions, which provide the structure for this chapter.
- Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
This quality finds its clinical expression in the Gestalt therapeutic experiment. It emerges from the material that arises in the encounter itself and is jointly brought …
- Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
An experiment is always risky and is adapted to the client’s resilience, ‘graded for risk and challenge …
- Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
… cording to Wegscheider (2020, p. 83), open-mindedness and surprise form the basis of this experimental attitude. The consensus also confirms that this attitude permeates the entirety of Gestalt therapy …
- Ch. 4.1 4.1 The lack of corporeality: echo instead of resonance
John Searle (1980) illustrated this in his ‘Chinese Room’ thought experiment: a person who does not speak Chinese sits in a room and responds to Chinese slips of pape …
- Ch. 4.2 4.2 The missing contact boundary: simulation instead of encounter
… (2023, p. 116) describes this logic from a Gestalt therapy perspective and, in a thought experiment, asks how a therapist would have to behave in order to create as confluent a field as pos …
- Ch. 5.2 5.2 Therapeutic Alliance and Empathy in Human–AI Interaction
An experiment has now also demonstrated that the simulation of connection does not achieve what real co …