Class topics and programs – School Stage II – Lodz School of Gestalt Psychotherapy

Class topics – year 1.

  1. Interpersonal training with elements of integration
  2. History and roots of Gestalt, code of ethics
  3. Diagnosis – a comparative approach and psychopathology
  4. Self theory
  5. The cycle of experience
  6. Mechanisms for entering contact/style of contact
  7. The therapeutic process and the structure of the therapy session
  8. Experimentation in individual psychotherapy
  9. Resistance work according to Enright
  10. Supervision and credit for therapeutic practice

A detailed description of the Year 1 Second Stage School program is available HERE.

Class topics – year 2.

  1. Embodied self
  2. Man and the environment: human development in Gestalt terms
  3. Gestalt therapist in the therapeutic relationship with the client
  4. Sexuality in the therapeutic relationship
  5. Working with LGBTQ+ people
  6. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: health vs. illness
  7. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: personality disorders – borderline, narcissism, schizoid personality
  8. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: neurotic and psychosomatic disorders
  9. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: psychosis, depression
  10. Credit

A detailed description of the Year 2 Second Stage School program is available HERE.

Class topics – year 3.

  1. Working with sleep
  2. Research methods in Gestalt practice
  3. Working with adolescents
  4. Working with steam
  5. Working with trauma
  6. Gestalt work with addictions
  7. Group process and group experiment
  8. Working with grief
  9. Other therapeutic approaches versus Gestalt: systemic therapy, psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral approaches, other currents
  10. Credit

A detailed description of the Year 3 Second Stage School program is available HERE.