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.

10. Embodied self
11. Man and the environment: human development in Gestalt terms
12. Gestalt therapist in the therapeutic relationship with the client
13. Sexuality in the therapeutic relationship
14. Working with LGBTQ+ people
15. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: health vs. illness
16. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: personality disorders – borderline, narcissism, schizoid personality
17. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: neurotic and psychosomatic disorders
18. Gestalt perspective in psychopathology: psychosis, depression
19. 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.