The Gestalt School program includes all of the following topics required for certification by the EAGT Association.
Philosophy; anthropology; psychoanalysis; existentialism; phenomenology; Gestalt theory; Eastern philosophies, GT’s Jewish roots, body work, art, radical social philosophies.
Organism/environment field; figure/field resolution; creative adaptation; paradoxical theory model of change; authenticity; contact-withdrawal. Cycle of experience; theory of self; consciousness/awareness; polarities; resistances/interruptions to contact; therapeutic process.
Personality theory; health and illness; child development and contemporary infant research; the person in society, gender and sexuality, the impact of global change on the individual.
Experiment; reinforcement; sleep work, chair work, Art work, breathing, sleep work, etc.
Differential diagnosis; DSM and ICD; psychodynamic diagnosis; Gestalt. Phenomenological diagnosis
Gestalt perspective in psychopathology; neurosis, psychosis, personality disorders (borderline, narcissism, dependent, histrionic, etc.), anxiety/anxiety/eating/psychosomatic disorders, addictions, etc.
Individual; couples; 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.