AI and Gestalt therapy
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Concept

Contact cycle

a need arises, takes shape, becomes a figure and finds its form in successful contact before receding back into the background. Originally, four stages were distinguished: pre-contact, initiation of contact, full contact and post-contact.

Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 3.3 — 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now

Related concepts

Contact boundaryExperimentMoment of Meeting

Occurrences in the text

  1. Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now

    Votsmeier-Röhr and Wulf (2024, pp. 89–91) expand on this structure in a comprehensive contact cycle model, distinguishing within it, for each contact domain, the ‘I–It’ relationship from th …

  2. Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now

    … sically navigated: in the tango-style walking together, known as ’El Caminar’, a complete contact cycle can be achieved in a single shared step forward (Feuerbach, 2022, p. 99). He breaks this …

  3. Ch. 4.2 4.2 The missing contact boundary: simulation instead of encounter

    … nt in the process itself. AI does not go through what was described in Chapter 3.3 as the contact cycle (the creative adaptation at the boundary, step by step in the here and now): it processes …