Class program according to EAGT

• Philosophy;
• anthropology;
• psychoanalysis;
• Existentialism;
• Phenomenology;
• Gestalt theory;
• eastern philosophies;
• GT’s Jewish roots;
• body work;
• art;
• radical social philosophies.

• The organism/environment field;
• figure/area resolution;
• creative adaptation;
• The paradox theory model of change;
• authenticity;
• contact-withdrawal;
• experiment cycle;
• theory of self;
• consciousness/awareness;
• polarities;
• resistance/interruption to contact;
• therapeutic process.

• Personality theory;
• health and illness;
• Child development and contemporary infant research;
• person in society;
• gender and sexuality;
• The impact of global change on the individual.

• Experiment;
• reinforcement;
• working with sleep;
• chair work;
• working with art;
• breathing, etc.

• Differential diagnosis;
• DSM and ICD;
• psychodynamic diagnosis;
• phenomenological diagnosis.

• Gestalt perspective in psychopathology;
• neurosis;
• psychosis;
• Personality disorders (borderline, narcissism, dependent, histrionic, etc.);
• Anxiety/anxiety/eating disorders/psychosomatic disorders;
• addictions, etc.

• Individual;
• par;
• families;
• groups;
• organizations;
• therapeutic communities, etc.

RELATIONSHIP: Gestalt perspective of transference, countertransference; dialogue, contact, I-Thou relationship, co-creation of contact, inter-subjectivity….

Social, cultural, political and ecological aspects of therapy in general and their implications for the Gestalt therapist. Therapist’s responsibility to individual clients and to the community/environment in which they practice.

EAGT Code of Ethics, Ethics Committee, complaint procedure, implications of ethics in personal and professional sphere. Ethical aspects of international political change, ethical implications of technological developments (e-learning, e-supervision, e-therapy), etc.

Research methods in Gestalt practice, quantitative/qualitative methods, comparative methods, self-descriptive methods.