Dissertations / Theses: 'Gestalt psychology'

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Boudewijnse, Geert-Jan A. "The gestalt line /." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41987.

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The thesis specifies how Franz Brentano inspired some of his students and how those students, in their turn, influenced the next generation of psychologists. After outlining the essentials of Aristotle's psychology, the thesis explains some general positions that Brentano borrowed from Aristotle. It goes on to relate Brentano's concepts of 'presentation,' 'unity of consciousness,' and 'difference between the mental and physical,' as well as his call for a 'science of the mind' to ideas of Christian von Ehrenfels, Carl Stumpf and Alexius Meinong.
Ehrenfels thought that a mental element, which he named gestalt quality, explains why a string of presentations has a certain form. The thesis then looks at a book of Edgar Rubin, even though Rubin was not a student of Brentano. His experiments that demonstrated the figure-ground phenomenon, however, were well known to the Berlin gestalt school. My analysis of Ehrenfels also sheds light on Rubin's theory, a theory that the Berlin gestalt school seemed to have overlooked, perhaps because Rubin's findings fit so well into their own notions.
Stumpf developed his theory of how presentations form a unity partly in rejection of Aristotle's notion of substance. His theory grounds his criticism of associationism. Stumpf's students, however, would not accept his dualistic view, but they would benefit from the experimental methods that he developed and taught them. Stumpf adapted his theory in response to his students' work, and that version formed the basis of his objections against their explanations.
Meinong's theory of how presentations are united was inspired by the Scholastics, and his students would render it into a psychological format. It is as a review of that latter work that the Berlin gestalt school presented its gestalt notion for the first time in mature form.
The conclusion very briefly reiterates Brentano's influence. It also contains some general observations regarding the diversity among the gestalt notions, the wide scope of the gestalt authors, and their zeal for the pursuit of pure scientific knowledge.

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Sundqvist, Fredrik. "Perceptual dynamics : theoretical foundations and philosophical implications of Gestalt psychology /." Göteborg : Acta universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39126078k.

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Gomes, Patrícia Wallerstein. "Gestalt-terapia herança em re-vista." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2001. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=83.

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Este trabalho investiga e discute as possíveis razões que levaram a Gestalt-terapia a ter a imagem de uma abordagem frágil, sem consistência teórica e, portanto, mais fácil de ser exercida, vez que não exigiria do profissional uma capacitação teórica ou a necessidade de estudos mais aprofundados. A autora, definindo-se como herdeira desta abordagem, resgata sua origem e concepção, apontando a importância dos pais, Fritz e Laura Perls, considerando suas crenças, mitos e valores pessoais e a influência, direta ou indireta, destes nos seus legados. Tal busca, referendada e constituída junto ao contexto da época da criação da Gestalt-terapia, objetiva compreender o cenário social e cultural e suas respectivas exigências, com vistas a inserí-la e aos seus conceitos num panorama maior que lhes conceda sentido. A pesquisa contou com entrevistas de três gestalt- terapeutas brasileiros da atualidade, considerados também herdeiros, e, por esta referência, irmãos da autora. Seus depoimentos foram registrados, tendo-se o intuito de, com esse diálogo, observar a compreensão que têm da Gestalt-terapia enquanto corpo teórico, como também suas percepções sobre as possíveis causas para a mal-dição desta abordagem, qual seja sua carência de fundamentação teórica. O estudo aponta ser necessário à formação do gestalt- terapeuta um referencial teórico-prático que revele e considere as influências sofridas pela abordagem, e explicite os construtos e conceitos por ela utilizados. É ainda de fundamental importância que se faça a distinção do que é a Gestalt-terapia daquilo que se constitui como o jeito de ser do seu pai, Fritz Perls
This paper researches on the possible reasons which made the Gestalt-therapy show a fragile approach image, with no theoretical basis, and therefore easier to be dealt with since it wouldnt demand a deep knowledge from the professional Gestalt-therapist. The author, here defining herself as heiress to this approach, rescues the Gestalt-therapys origin and concepts pointing out to the importance of its founders, Fritz and Laura Perls . She considers their beliefs, myths and personal values as well as their direct or indirect influence on the Gestalt-therapys destiny. This study, wich focus on the Gestalt-therapy very beginning, aims to clearly understand the social-cultural aspect and its demands, with the purpose of analysing the Gestalt-therapy and its concepts in a much broader context that makes it meaningful. This research is made up of interviews with three current Brazilian Gestalttherapists, who are also considered heirs, hence this autors brothers. The main goal for interviewing those therapists was not only to analyse their individual comprehension about Gestalt-therapy itself as theory but also to have their own opinion about the possible causes for todays superficial approach of this therapy. This study highlits that a Gestalt-therapist needs theoretical and practical pillars that reveal and consider not only the influence undertaken by such a light Gestalttherapy approach but also that clarifies the concepts which this therapy makes use of. It is still paramount that one distinguishes between what Gestalt-therapy actually is from something that merely makes up its fathers (Fritz Perls) way of being

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Hassan, Mohamed Sayed. "Cassirer and structuralism of perception : an application of group theory to Gestalt psychology." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2535/.

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Ernst Cassirer's task was to set up an account of perception as objective judgement. We can trace Cassirer's view of perception through three different accounts each of which aimed to give an answer of how perceptual judgements can be possible. These three accounts started from (1900-1923) where he presented his view depending on Functional- Relational analysis of perceptual experience. The second account started from (1923-1933) where he presented his view of perception depending on symbolic analysis of perceptual experience, and finally the third account started from (1933-1945) where the analysis of perceptual phenomena has been made depending on his apprehension of Group Theory. The main target of Cassirer in the third account was to show that there is similarity between geometry and perception with respect to the ways both of these two disciplines build up their objects. Having the same logical base, Cassirer claimed that there is similarity between geometrical determination of the object and perceptual determination of the experienced object. For Cassirer, this similarity is what allows an application of "group theory" to perception. As a result of that claim, Cassirer shifted mathematical terms such as "invariance", "frame of reference" and "transformation" from the province of geometry and reused them in the field of perception for setting up what he called psychology of thought. This thesis discusses Cassirer's first two accounts and focuses on the third account by giving examples of how the mathematical concept of "group" can be used as an analogy to provide an intrinsic explanation of the nature of the objects and their characteristics one experiences during the perceptual situation. The explanations of the perceptual phenomena represented in the perceptual experience, as given by Cassirer, based on Gestalt psychology, reflected this understanding. The ample examples created by the Gestalt psychologists and used by Cassirer indicated how both understood the object of perceptual experience as constructed and not as a thing or hic et nunc. I will show that in these three accounts, there are non-physical elements, which defined here as structural elements, involved in the perceptual experience. By the virtue of these non-physical elements, perceptual judgements are possible. Cassirer and the Gestalt psychologists emphasized that these structural elements are presupposed in every perceptual experience and this understanding will lead to the claim that both Cassirer and the Gestaltists presupposed the constructive unity of mind based on a transcendental analysis of the nature of mind and its cognitive processes.

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Wistisen, Michele. "Can lessons designed with Gestalt laws of visual perception improve students' understanding of the phases of the moon?" Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1939351911&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Evans, Deborah Susan Julia. "Professional practice and intra personal functioning : an exploration of the theory practice gap in trainee nurses." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287961.

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Kayyali, Yousef John. "Therapist Personal and Professional Experience as Predictors of Gestalt Therapy Contact Resistances." Thesis, Adler School of Professional Psychology, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10936230.

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Gestalt therapy postulates psychological illness and health are interwoven with how a person gets in touch or interrupts contact with self, others, the environment, and the spiritual field (Brownell, 2018; Corey, 2005; Perls, 1969, 1973, 1942/1993; Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951/1994; Perls, 1976; Polster & Polster, 1973; Prosnick & Woldt, 2014; Yontef, 1993, 1999). Preliminary research found support for psychological wellness and disturbance relative to Gestalt therapy contact styles between human organism and environment (Byrnes, 1975). The purpose of this study was to investigate four predictor variables of therapist age, professional experience, theoretical orientation, and preferred theoretical orientation as a client vis-à-vis seven criterion variables of Gestalt therapy contact resistances —or interruptions to contact. Essentially, this study hypothesized therapists with more experience (i.e., age, and professional practice) and Gestalt therapy exposure (i.e., practicing, and receiving Gestalt therapy as a client) would obtain lower scores on the seven Gestalt contact resistances: Confluence, Desensitization, Introjection, Projection, Retroflection, Deflection, and Egotism—as gauged by the Gestalt Inventory of Resistance Loadings (GIRL; Woldt & Prosnick, 2014a). Archival datasets comprising 291 mental health trainees, professionals, and affiliates were utilized. Age and Gestalt therapy theoretical orientation were most supported suggesting Gestalt therapy coupled with aging process attenuate Gestalt contact resistances. Professional experience and Gestalt therapy preference as a client produced partial support indicating these two variables also aid in the diminution of Gestalt contact resistances. In sum, 13 out of 28 hypotheses (i.e., 46%; four more neared significance) were statistically significant cementing credence for the utility of Gestalt therapy modi in helping both psychotherapists and clients alike transcend obstacles precluding growth, maturation, actualization, organismic self-regulation, authenticity, and wholeness .

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White, Michael V. "Therapist operations that facilitate very good moments in Gestalt therapy sessions." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6630.

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Using a procedure that borrowed from both a quantitative and a qualitative research approach to psychotherapy, this study investigated audiotaped recordings of six sessions of Gestalt therapy conducted by five distinguished therapists. This in-depth, discovery-oriented research explored the interrelations between in-session client conditions, therapist operations and very good moments. In the first phase of the study, composite descriptions of six categories of very good moments were generated, based on the identification and the subsequent descriptions of 17 instances of very good moments made by a team of twelve judges. The six categories of very good moments were: From Neutral to Strong Feeling; Strong Expression Directly Toward Therapist; Extratherapy Behavior Change Intention; Acceptance of Problem-Self; State of General Well-Being; and New, Deeply Felt Personality Process-State. In the second phase of the investigation, judges identified explicit therapist operations and methods which, when carried out under identified client conditions or states, were judged as being instrumental in the subsequent occurrence of the given category of very good moments. The main finding was as follows: (a) The skilled and competent use of specific therapist operations, (b) with a client who is ready and willing to use the operations, and to move toward that very good moment, (c) appeared to result in the occurrence of that very good moment. For practitioners who value these categories of very good moments, the findings may be used as provisional suggestions for ways of facilitating the occurrence of these very good moments. For researchers, the findings are illustrative of continuing explorations into how psychotherapy works, into the relations between in-session client conditions or states, therapist operations, and consequent in-session very good moments. By means of careful, in-depth examination, researchers can learn what practitioners do to help bring about important and useful in-session client events.

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Reece, Thomas John. "Personality as a Gestalt : a cluster analytic approach to the big five /." TopSCHOLAR®, 2009. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/123.

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Cicha, Cheryl R. "Effective communication in interactive media through application of Gestalt principles /." Online version of thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12260.

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Massey, Hugh Richard. "Gestalt Work For the Actor: A Documentary Video Production." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2516/.

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Gestalt Work for the Actor is a documentary about Dr. Renee Vincent's Gestalt acting exercise. Students are trained to recall powerful emotions and then employ the conjured passions into performance. This documentary examines the Gestalt acting exercise and what benefits it affords actors. The accompanying production book explains the production processes: preproduction, production, and postproduction, as well as the theoretical approaches used in the documentary.

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Babineau, Vanessa. "Gestalt processing in high functioning children with autism as compared to typically developing children." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121341.

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Gestalt theory delineates a specific set of principles that are considered to be rules according to which the visual system organizes and integrates local elements (i.e., parts) into meaningful wholes (Koffka, 1935). The inclusion of gestalt stimuli in the present study of high functioning children with autism (HFA) as compared to typically developing (TD) children further specifies on a cognitive level at what point visual perceptual biases take place among children with HFA, and lends evidence toward the specificity of the Weak Central Coherence (WCC) theory (Frith & Happé, 1994) and global-local processing. The gestalt principles of closure, collinearity and spatial proximity were examined with the administration of a visualized-computer shape detection task among 11 children with HFA as compared 13 TD children matched on a nonverbal mental age of around 10 years. For both groups, search efficiency for closed stimuli was significantly greater than for open stimuli (F(1,12) = 5.94, p < 0.05), search efficiency for collinear line-segments was significantly greater than for non- collinear line segments (F(1,12) = 7.45, p < 0.01), and there was a marginally significant interaction between collinearity and proximity (F(1,12) = 7.45, p = 0.07) that demonstrated greater search efficiency in the presence of collinearity and spatial proximity as compared to collinearity alone. Overall, there were no group differences in the ability to use the gestalt principles of closure, collinearity and spatial proximity, indicating that children with HFA appear to utilize gestalt principles in a manner similar to their TD peers.
La théorie de la gestalt définit un ensemble spécifique de principes de base qui sont considérés comme des lois selon lesquelles le système visuel organise et intègre les éléments séparés en ensemble unique (Koffka, 1935). L'inclusion des stimuli de la gestalt dans la présente étude chez les enfants autistes de haut fonctionnement (AHF) par rapport au enfants à développement typique (DT) spécifie sur un plan cognitif à quel moment la perception visuelle chez les enfants AHF se différencie, et prête preuve envers la spécificité de la théorie de Cohérence Centrale Faible (Frith & Happé, 1994). Les principes de la gestalt de clôture, continuité et proximité ont été examinées avec l'administration d'une tâche de détection de forme, par ordinateur, chez 11 enfants AHF par rapport à 13 enfants à DT apparié en âge mental nonverbal d'environ 10 ans. Pour les deux groupes, l'efficacité de la recherche pour les stimuli fermé était significativement plus efficace que pour les stimuli non fermé (F(1,12) = 5.94, p <0.05), l'efficacité de la recherche des segments avec continuité était supérieur à celui des segments non-alignés (F(1,12) = 7.45, p <0.01), et il y avait une interaction presque significative entre la continuité et la proximité (F(1,12) = 7.45, p = 0.07) qui a démontré une plus grande efficacité de la recherche en présence de continuité et de proximité par rapport à la continuité seul. Dans l'ensemble, il n'y avait pas de différences entre les groupes dans la capacité à utiliser les principes de la gestalt de clôture, continuité et proximité, ce qui indique que les enfants AHF semblent utiliser les principes gestalt de façon comparable aux enfants à DT.

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Hinksman, Barrie L. J. "Is Gestalt therapy compatible with feminist theology? : a study of "practical-values"." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/320/.

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Interdisciplinary work is of the essence of pastoral theology, most obviously where theology and the human sciences interact. Such work carries with it a number of risks that are not always addressed or even recognised. The principal risk is that a facile attempt to forge links between disciplines may lead to serious distortions of the meanings of both. This thesis examines gestalt therapy and feminist theology as possible candidates for interdisciplinary work. By reading and interrogating the literature of both disciplines, it identifies their origins and analyses their core ideas. The thesis affirms disputed links between gestalt philosophy, psychology and the later therapy, and examines other contributors to the development of gestalt and its core ideas. It next examines the development and scope of feminist theology before analysing core ideas across the range of voices in feminist writing. From these core ideas it is possible to establish the values that writers and practitioners find important in their lives (practical-values). On this basis, it is shown that these two disciplines, despite differences of history and purpose, are compatible with each other and therefore suitable candidates for interdisciplinary work.

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McFarlane, Anna M. "A gestalt approach to the science fiction novels of William Gibson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6263.

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Gestalt psychologists Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler argue that human perception relies on a form, or gestalt, into which perceptions are assimilated. Gestalt theory has been applied to the visual arts by Rudolf Arnheim and to literature by Wolfgang Iser. My original contribution to knowledge is to use gestalt theory to perform literary criticism, an approach that highlights the importance of perception in William Gibson's novels and the impact of this emphasis on posthumanism and science fiction studies. Science fiction addresses the problem of difference and the relationship between self and other. Gestalt literary criticism takes perception as the interface between the self and the other, the human and the inhuman. Gibson's work is of particular interest as his early novels are representative of 1980s cyberpunk while his later novels push the boundaries of science fiction through their contemporary settings. By engaging with Gibson the thesis makes its contribution to contemporary science fiction criticism explicit. In Gibson's Sprawl trilogy autopoiesis defines life and consciousness, elevating the importance of perception (Chapter I). The Bridge trilogy uses the metaphor of chaos theory to examine dialectic tensions, such as the tension between space and cyberspace (Chapter II). Faulty pattern recognition is a key theme in Gibson's post-9/11 work as gestalt perception allows and limits knowledge (Chapter III). Chapter IV explains how the gestalt in psychoanalysis creates a fragmented subject in Spook Country (2007). Finally, the gestalt appears as a parallax view, a view that oscillates between the world we experience and the world as represented in the text (Chapter V). I conclude that gestalt literary criticism offers an exciting new reading of Gibson's work that recognises its engagement with visual culture and cyberpunk as a whole.

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McCollough, Andrew Willis 1974. "The Influence of Gestalt Grouping Principles on Active Visual Representations: Neurophysiological Evidence." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11555.

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The cognitive ability to group information into chunks is a well known phenomenon, however, the effects of chunking on visual representations is not well understood. Here we investigate the effects of visual chunking using Gestalt grouping principles in two tasks: visual working memory change detection and multiple object tracking. Though both these tasks have been used to study cognitive functions in the past, including object-based attention, attentional control and working memory capacity, the effect of grouping on mental representations in these tasks has not been well characterized. That is, while researches have measured effects of grouping on behavioral output in similar tasks, there are few studies of the effects of grouping on neurophysiological indices of object representations. Indeed, these current studies are the first to use event-related potentials (ERPs) to elucidate the effect of grouping on active mental representations of visual stimuli. In the visual working memory task, observers remembered either the color or orientation of pacman stimuli across a delay. We manipulated the collinearity of these objects, whether or not they formed a Kanizsa triangle figure, and measured the behavioral and electrophysiological effects. In the multiple object tracking task, a subset of identical stimuli were briefly cued as targets and then their motion was tracked by participants. We manipulated whether and which Gestalt heuristics were used to bind targets together during their motion and measured the effects on behavior and electrophysiology. In both tasks we compared the grouped to ungrouped conditions. We found that across experiments and tasks behavioral performance was enhanced in grouping conditions compared to ungrouped conditions. Furthermore, the waveforms evoked by grouped stimuli were reduced compared to waveforms produced in response to locally identical but ungrouped stimuli. These data suggest that the mental representation of visual objects may be reshaped moment-by-moment by grouping cues or task demand, giving rise to a flexible, active and dynamic yet parsimonious representation of the visual world.
Committee in charge: Edward K. Vogel, Chair; Edward Awh, Member; Ulrich Mayr, Member; Paul van Donkelaar, Outside Member

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Uldall, Brian Robert. "Counterfactual thinking and cognitive consistency." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1132685877.

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Nargiso, Jessica E. "Adolescent gender differences in risk of alcohol use /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2009. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3378089.

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Koohnavard, Saina. "Made You Look : Investigating illusion through garment." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-523.

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Visual dominance. Our human perception, that with great authority, powerfully influences and controls all of our senses. In turn, our minds try to acquire and maintain meaningful perceptions in what we are experiencing, may that be in a chaotic world, a cacophony in colour or vibrations in patterns. This project explores disturbances in pattern and colour and how these elements can deceive the eye. Playing with elements such as opacity, layers and transparency the nine outfits presented in this project attempt to explore the principles of Gestalt psychology to create disorder and confusion. Significantly, the project discusses our perception of pattern and colour and how with small measures these components can outsmart our senses, highlighting the importance of psychological methods and techniques in design rather than scientific or mathematical.

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Fujita, Natália Giosa. "A união do corpo e da alma n\'A estrutura do comportamento." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-03032015-121613/.

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Procuramos mostrar como a primeira das teses doutorais de Merleau-Ponty, A Estrutura do Comportamento, torna possível o retorno ao problema clássico da união do corpo e da alma, uma vez que, ao mesmo tempo em que faz a crítica do empirismo mecanicista que embasa as tentativas científicas (da neurofisiologia e da psicologia) de dar conta da vida orgânica e do comportamento, descobre nas descrições destes fenômenos um meio original em relação ao para-si suposto pelo criticismo como explicação e fundamentação última do conhecimento e limite para o que se pode dizer sobre o ser. Procuramos ademais sugerir as limitações do quadro conceitual em que o corpo e suas realizações, dentre as quais especialmente a percepção, podem voltar a desempenhar um papel decisivo na interrogação filosófica, em especial pela ênfase, a nosso ver excessiva, que o autor faz recair sobre a articulação entre símbolo e verdade e pela falta de descrição positiva da articulação entre as formas chamadas inferiores do comportamento ligadas ao instinto, à vida orgânica e a uma temporalidade circular - e o nível simbólico remetido à verdade, à liberdade e à História
We try to show how Merleau-Ponty\'s first doctoral thesis, The Structure of Behavior, allows for a comeback of the classical problem of the union of body and soul, once it criticizes the mechanicist empirism founding the scientific attempts (from neurophysiology and psychology) to explain the organic life and behavior, while unearthing in those fenomena a milieu that differs from the transcendental self embedded in criticism as a final explanation and foundation of knowledge, and as the limit to what one can say about being. We also try to point out to the limits of such conceptual framework, in which body and its performances, specially perception, may again play a crucial role in philosophical investigation, in particular because of excessive emphasis placed upon the connection between symbol and truth, and for a lack of positive description of the articulation between the so-called inferior forms of behavior connected to instincts, organic life and circular time and the symbolic level related to truth, freedom and History

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Sellbom, Martin O. H. "Validity of Bender-Gestalt test signs measuring depressive, antisocial, and impulsive acting out personality characteristics." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1236574.

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The Bender-Gestalt test is one of the most widely used psychological tests in clinical practice. However, very few empirical studies have investigated its projective use with adults. The purpose of the present study was to replicate a study conducted by Sellbom et al. (2001), which examined distortions of the Bender-Gestalt hypothesized to measure antisocial, impulsive, and depressive characteristics. It was found that the findings in Sellbom et al. (2001) were partially replicated, indicating that certain distortions, especially in conjunction, were significantly related to antisocial characteristics. The author suggests that the Bender-Gestalt could potentially be used as a screening measure for antisocial characteristics, but not to measure impulsive and depressive characteristics.
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McGregor, Michael Anthony. "Use of Gestalt principles in Kodály-based music teaching in lower secondary school : an evaluation study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669840.

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Koffman, Steven D. "Structured reminiscence and gestalt life review : group treatment of older adults for late life adjustment." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115724.

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The present analogue study compared the effects of 2 theoretically divergent Life Review group psychotherapies on aspects of late life adjustment and development. Thirty-six adult non-patients, ages 65 years and older, from the Muncie - Delaware County vicinity, were randomly selected from an available subject pool of screened volunteer respondents and randomly assigned to one of three analogue treatment conditions with two groups for each treatment condition. These three treatment conditions were the structured reminiscence life review group (SRLR), the Gestalt life review group (GLR) and a Wait List control group (WLC). Demographic, mental status, and Activities of Daily Living Scale (ADL) data were obtained from initial respondents by telephone interview and followed by written completion of the Symptom Checklist (SCL 90-R). The differential effects of treatment were measured by pre and post testing on four dependent variables: (1) depression, (2) congruence, (3) helplessness, and (4) ego integrity.Results indicated that neither of the two life review group psychotherapy treatments had any statistically significant effect upon the dependent variables. In a post hoc exploratory analysis, evidence emerged which suggested that the participants in the GLR treatment condition may have shown significant improvement on several state mental health variables. The dimensions of improvement for participants in the GLR were Interpersonal Sensitivity, Hostility, Depression, and Positive Symptom report as measured by the SCL 90-R. This contrasted with those in both the SRLR or WLC condition for whom no improvement was shown.
Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

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Costa, Danilo Suassuna Martins. "HISTÓRIA DA GESTALT TERAPIA NO BRASIL CONTADA POR SEUS PRIMEIROS ATORES : UM ESTUDO HISTORIOGRÁFICO NO EIXO SÃO PAULO-BRASÍLIA." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2008. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/1992.

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This work is based on a history of psychology perspective, and aims to unveil the Gestalttherapy and gestalt approach history in Brazil. This essay has an empirical and qualitative character, using the historiographic method. The interviews are semi-directives conducted with some of the first professionals to work with this approach in Brazil, here called "first actors" in the geographical axis that includes the state of São-Paulo and the Federal District, specifically Brasília. These interviews were analyzed under a phenomenological point of view, and grouped in main themes in order to understand the particular view of these "first actors" understanding, from their individual perceptions, how this approach came to Brazil; with who arrives and how comes development of the Gestalt-therapy, in Brazil. This work contributes not only to clarify the historical legacy of Gestalt-therapy, but also to reflect on their social and political perspectives. Thus, from a critical eye on contributions, possibilities and perspectives, the study corroborates with the solidification of the epistemological studies of gestalt approach.
Esse trabalho insere-se na perspectiva da história da psicologia, e tem como objetivo desvelar a história da Gestalt-terapia e da Abordagem Gestáltica no Brasil. A pesquisa tem um caráter empírico, de cunho qualitativo, utilizando-se do método historiográfico. Partese de entrevistas semi-diretivas realizadas com alguns dos primeiros profissionais a trabalhar com esta abordagem no Brasil, aqui denominados primeiros atores , no eixo geográfico que compreende o estado de São Paulo e o Distrito Federal, mais especificamente Brasília. Essas entrevistas foram analisadas sob um olhar fenomenológico, e agrupadas em temas centrais, de modo a abordar a visão particular desses primeiros atores no sentido de compreender, a partir de suas percepções individuais, como chega; com quem chega e como se desenvolve a Gestalt-terapia no Brasil. Este trabalho contribui não apenas para elucidar o legado histórico da Gestalt-terapia, mas também para refletir sobre suas perspectivas sociais e politicas. Assim sendo e, a partir de um olhar crítico sobre as contribuições, possibilidades e perspectivas, o estudo corrobora com a solidificação dos estudos epistemológicos da abordagem gestáltica.

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Roth, Adam Harold. "A Gestalt Oriented Phenomenological and Participatory Study of the Transformative Process of Adolescent Participants Following Wilderness Centered Rites of Passage." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1273163917.

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Wilson, Fuge Blythe Ariana. "Confluent education: Curriculum developed to create connections for students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3334.

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The purpose of this project is to develop a confluent interdisciplinary unit for use by other teachers. Confluent education focuses on teaching the affective and cognitive domains in a seamless approach in which the education of both domains are part of the objectives in the lessons. Includes lesson plans.

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Louw, Elsabe. "Gestaltspeltegnieke in die assessering van die pleegkind se eiewaarde in sy middelkinderjare." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04172007-145003.

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Brisbois, Blake. "The Lived Experience of Facilitating the Violet Oaklander Model of Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1467798020.

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Carneiro, João Alex Costa. "A Gestalt entendida como um protoconceito transdisciplinar na passagem do século XIX ao século XX: uma abordagem epistemológica e histórica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-13032018-103115/.

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As investigações que resultaram nesta tese derivam de duas inquietações intelectuais, de ordem mais geral, suscitadas em minha trajetória de pesquisa: (1) o que pode caracterizar um conceito como heurístico e transdisciplinar? (2) como é possível estabelecer mediações cognitivas capazes de inteligir um objeto histórico? Nosso objeto central de estudo consiste na compreensão da evolução histórica e epistemológica sofrida pelo conceito de Gestalt, cuja tradução para o termo forma ou suas derivações não preserva o seu sentido mais fundamental: uma totalidade que é distinta da soma das partes que a compõe, sendo esta totalidade capaz de sofrer reconfigurações sem ter sua identidade alterada. Nosso enfoque será o período que vai de 1886 a 1935, com eventuais avanços e recuos para aquém e além desse intervalo. Daremos especial atenção ao modo como tal conceito se configurou na psicologia da época, com destaque para as formulações da psicologia da Gestalt (Escola de Frankfurt-Berlim), cujos principais representantes foram Max Wertheimer (1880 - 1943), Kurt Koffka (1886 - 1941) e Wolfgang Köhler (1887 - 1967). Contudo, nosso viés investigativo, a exemplo daquele compartilhado pelos integrantes da Escola de Frankfurt-Berlim, não é disciplinar nem monográfico-autoral. Entenderemos a Gestalt como exemplo de um protoconceito, ou seja, um conceito capaz de sofrer contínuas rearticulações tanto no âmbito da cultura científica como da filosófica, sem, com isso, deixar de manter inter-relações com a cultura geral da época. Nossa investigação, portanto, alterna vários níveis, cujos principais são: o conceitual, o epistemológico, o histórico, o social - entendido em sua expressão mais concreta como um coletivo de pensamento - e o instrumental. Quanto a este último nível, apresentaremos uma classe de dispositivos cujos integrantes, de modo análogo ao protoconceito, serão denominados protoinstrumentos. A isso acrescentam-se as particularidades do ambiente científico moderno, cujos expedientes de pesquisa e circulação de informação obedecem a padrões próprios. Esse conjunto de fatores impôs a necessidade de uma prévia reflexão metodológica, acarretando na divisão dessa tese em duas partes interdependentes. Na primeira, realizaremos um amplo exame das principais tradições, no âmbito da filosofia da ciência do século XX, cujas formulações apontaram para um estreitamento das relações entre a história e a produção do conhecimento científico. Os principais representantes debatidos foram Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962), Georges Canguilhem (1904 - 1995), Alexandre Koyré (1892 - 1964, Ludwik Fleck (1896 - 1961), Arthur Lovejoy (1873 - 1962), Thomas Kuhn (1922 - 1996) e Peter Galison. Ao final da Segunda Parte proporemos uma orientação no âmbito da epistemologia histórica a que denominamos proposta protoconceitual convergente. Com ela, são detalhados o conjunto de categorias e pressupostos metodológicos assumidos em nossa investigação. Com base nisso, percorreremos, na Segunda Parte, as múltiplas articulações sofridas pelo protoconceito de Gestalt tanto no âmbito da tradição alemã, como nos trabalhos pioneiros de Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916), Christian von Ehrenfels (1859 - 1932) e representantes da Escola de Graz, com destaque para Vittorio Benussi (1878 - 1927). Defenderemos que a Escola de Frankfurt-Berlim foi a principal responsável pela efetivação da Gestalt como um protoconceito transdisciplinar, cujo núcleo semântico manteve-se preservado durante suas múltiplas articulações.
The investigations that resulted in this dissertation derive from two intellectual concerns, both of a more general order, raised in my research trajectory: (1) what can characterize a concept as heuristic and transdisciplinary? (2) How is it possible to establish cognitive mediations capable of understanding a historical object? Our core object of study is the understanding of the historical and epistemological evolution undergone by the concept of Gestalt, whose translation as \"form\" or its derivations does not preserve its most fundamental meaning: a whole that is distinct from the sum of its parts, being this whole able to undergo reconfigurations without having its identity altered. Our focus will be the period that runs from 1886 to 1935, with eventual advances and retreats below and beyond this interval. We will give special attention to the way in which this concept was configured in the psychology of the time, highlighting the Gestalt Psychology formulations of the Frankfurt-Berlin School, whose main representatives were Max Wertheimer (1880 - 1943), Kurt Koffka (1886 - 1941) And Wolfgang Köhler (1887 - 1967). Nevertheless, our investigative interest, like the members of the Frankfurt-Berlin School, is not disciplinary or monographic-authorial. We will understand Gestalt as an example of a proto-concept, i.e, a concept capable of undergoing continuous rearticulations both within the framework of scientific and philosophical culture, without, however, ceasing to maintain interrelations with the general culture of the time. Our investigation, therefore, operates in several levels, whose main are: the conceptual, epistemological, historical, social ones - understood in there more concrete expressions as a collective of thought - and the instrumental. As for this last level, we will present a class of devices whose members, analogously to the proto-concept, will be called proto-instruments. Added to this are the particularities of the modern scientific environment, whose research and information processes follow their own standards. This set of factors imposed the need for a previous methodological inquiry, resulting in the division of this thesis into two interdependent parts. In the first one, we will carry out a broad examination of the main traditions within the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, whose formulations have pointed to a closer relationship between history and the production of scientific knowledge. The main representatives of such stance were Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962), Georges Canguilhem (1904 - 1995), Alexandre Koyré (1892 - 1964, Ludwik Fleck (1896 - 1961), Arthur Lovejoy (1873 - 1962), Thomas Kuhn ) and Peter Galison. At the end of Part One, we will propose an orientation in the context of historical epistemology, which we call the convergent proto-conceptual proposal. With that we describe the set of categories and methodological assumptions assumed in our investigation. Based on that we go through multiple articulations undergone by the Gestalt proto-concept, both in the German tradition, and in the pioneering works of Ernst Mach (1838-1916), Christian von Ehrenfels (1859-1932) and representatives of the Graz School, especially Vittorio Benussi (1878-1927). We will argue that the Frankfurt-Berlin School was the main responsible for Gestalt realization as a trans-disciplinary proto-concept, whose core semantics remains preserved during its multiple articulations.

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Costa, Maria Ivone Marchi. "A prática da psicoterapia infantil a partir do referencial teórico do psicodrama, gestalt terapia e abordagem centrada na pessoa, sob as óticas de Bermúdez, Ferrari, Oaklander e Axline." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2003. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=109.

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O presente estudo teve por objetivo geral investigar junto a psicoterapeutas que trabalham com crianças, de diferentes abordagens teóricas (Psicodrama, Gestalt terapia e Centrada no Cliente), como está sendo experienciada essa prática clínica. Para tanto, foram entrevistadas 6 (seis) psicoterapeutas, com experiência profissional que variou de 10 (dez) a 30 (trinta) anos, sendo 2 (duas) de cada abordagem. A entrevista foi semidirigida e compreendeu as seguintes dimensões: sentimentos experimentados como terapeuta infantil, obstáculos enfrentados, recursos utilizados, necessidades sentidas, avaliação da especialidade e um encerramento livre. As entrevistas foram realizadas de forma individual e foram gravadas e transcritas. Após leitura das repostas nas dimensões citadas, observou-se que não houve diferenças nas repostas dadas pelas participantes relacionadas à especialidade na qual atuam. De maneira geral pode-se dizer que: 1) os sentimentos experimentados foram de valorização ao trabalho com a criança pelo seu caráter preventivo, além de gratificante e bonito por propiciar o crescimento de cada indivíduo, porém, ao mesmo tempo experimentam frustração, solidão e impotência, principalmente quando os pais não colaboram; 2) os obstáculos enfrentados referem-se à dificuldade de conseguir a aliança com os pais, o pequeno número de profissionais que atuam nessa especialidade e a escassez de pesquisas e literatura; 3) os recursos utilizados perpassam pela rede social da criança (pais, parentes, amigos) e, quanto aos recursos técnicos, utilizam brinquedos estruturados e não estruturados, testes e técnicas; 4) as necessidades sentidas incluem a busca constante de atualização, revisão através de supervisões e trocas entre os profissionais, bem como de congressos e cursos, 5) a avaliação que fazem da área é que ela é mais difícil porque requer o esforço físico do profissional, o entendimento da linguagem da criança, tanto verbal como não verbal, e a questão cultural de que tudo que se refere a criança é menos valorizado. No caminhar através dos diversos autores que embasaram o estudo encontrou-se na abordagem construcionista social/narrativa uma postura ética diferenciada na prática terapêutica com a criança e seus familiares. Acredita-se que as dificuldades são minimizadas e os resultados mais efetivos quando a criança é também trabalhada junto com a família, seja mediante a terapia familiar, seja por encontros familiares breves.
The present study has as the general objective to investigate with child psychotherapists of different theoretical approaches (Psychodrama, Gestalt and Client Centered therapy), how the clinical practice is being experienced. To do so, 6 (six) child psychotherapists, having a professional experience ranging from 10 (ten)to 30 (thirty) years, being 2 from each approach were interviewed. The interview was semi-directed and comprised the following dimensions: feelings experienced as a child psychotherapist, obstacles faced, used resources, necessities felt, evaluation of the speciality and a last question for additional information. The interviews were conducted individually and were taped and transcribed. After reading the answers of the above quoted dimensions, we can conclude that there were no differences in the responses given by the participants related to the speciality in which they work. In a general way we can say that: 1) The feelings experienced were of valuing the work with children due to its preventive character, in addition to that, it is gratifying and nice because it favors the person growth, though, at the same time the therapists feel the frustration, solitude and impotence, especially when the parents do not cooperate; 2) The obstacles faced reter to the difficulty of getting an alliance with the parents, the small number of professionals working in this area and the lack of research and related literature; 3) The used resources passed by the social network of the child (parents, relatives, friends), and regarding the technical resources, structured and non structured toys, tests and several techniques were used; 4) The necessities felt include the constant search for updating, revision through supervisions and exchange of experience with other professionals, as well as, congresses and courses; 5) The evaluation they have on the area is that, it is more difficult because it requires physical effort of the professional, the understanding of the child's language, not only verbal but also non verbal, and the cultural issue that everything that refers to children is does not receive the same value. Browsing through the several authors in whom the studies were based on, we found in the social/narrative constructionist approach a distinguished ethical position in the therapeutic practice with the children and their families. We also hold the position that the difficulties are minimized and the results more effective when the child and the family work together, either with family therapy, or brief family meetings

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Roth, Adam Harold. "A Gestalt oriented phenomenological and participatory study of the transformative process of adolescent participants following wilderness centered rites of rassage." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1273163917.

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Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Education)--Cleveland State University, 2010
Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 12, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p.191-201). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center

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Lundequist, Aiko. "Visuomotorisk utveckling mätt med Bendertestet : En jämförelse mellan för tidigt födda och fullgångna barn vid 5 1/2 års ålder." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Psychology, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-853.

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Barns utveckling under de sista förskoleåren är nyckeln till en bra skolstart. Visuomotorik är en av de faktorer som krävs för att tillägna sig skolans basfärdigheter. För tidigt födda barn är en grupp som enligt tidigare forskning löper risk för en sämre visuomotorisk utveckling. I den här studien mättes visuomotorik med Bender Gestalt Test med utvärderingssytem utvecklade av främst Elizabeth Koppitz (1963, 1975). I studien jämfördes för tidigt födda barns (n=175) och matchade fullgångna barns (n=125) Bender-resultat vid 5½ års ålder. Resultat visar att Bender-testet och Koppitz poängsystem har god validitet som ett visuomotoriskt mått och instrument i utvecklingsbedömningar. Det visar också att för tidigt födda har en mindre välutvecklad visuomotorik än fullgångna barn. Visuomotorik och högre kognitiv förmåga (främst IQ) uppvisar ett starkt positivt samband i båda grupperna. Resultaten visar även att hyperaktivitet utgjorde en extra riskfaktor hos de för tidigt födda barnen, vilket kan indikera att hyperaktiviteten har en annan dynamik än hos fullgångna barn.

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Viseshsin, Jongruja Mai. "The multiple dimensions of graphic design /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11629.

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Onofre, Marcílio Fagner. "Sistema composicional complexo visando à hierarquização de unidades sonora, sintagmas e envelopes." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2009. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6611.

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The present research aims to insert sound objects, independent musical entities, in the context of a complex compositional system, here called Object-Timbre System. This system was divided in three different components, sonorous unit, syntagm and envelop, in which the sound object concept elapses. The sintagm and the envelope form the two levels of contextual connection. Although focusing each component as an autonomous mean, this autonomy is not an absolute one, because in order to form syntagm and envelop it is necessary the amalgamation of the sonorous units and the syntagm. Therefore the connection is an important transport of the Object-Timbre System, and will be focus from the perspective of the Gestalt psychology, specifically from the Gestalt laws. The major or minor presence of the Gestalt laws in the construction of the component forms what we call vector of contextual connection. This vector was divided in high, average and low degree. Timbre was the musical agent from which these connections have been establisched. In this way the model constructed here inserts between the atomistic thinking, as it deals with the sonorous object, and the holistic or ecological thinking, due to the necessary connections to create components in a superior hierarchic level. For such reason we used the concept of near-decomposability created by Herbert Simon in a complex systems context. Five pieces was composed for strings: Tractus Mobilis I.a/b (for solo violin), Ideoplastie II (for violin and violoncello), Vortex Diagonal (for violin, viola and violoncello), Interceptação (string quartet) and Araneae (string quintet).
A presente pesquisa buscou inserir objetos sonoros, entidades musicais autônomas, no contexto de um sistema composicional complexo, denominado Sistema Objeto-Timbre (SOT). Esse sistema é dividido em três componentes, nos quais perpassa o conceito de objeto sonoro, que são: a unidade sonora, o sintagma e o envelope. O sintagma e o envelope formam os dois graus de conexão contextual. Apesar de enfocar cada componente como autônomo, essa autonomia é relativa, pois, para formar o sintagma e o envelope, é necessário que haja a união das unidades sonoras e sintagmas, respectivamente. As conexões são partes importantes do SOT, e são abordadas a partir da psicologia da Gestalt, em particular a partir das leis da Gestalt. O timbre foi o agente musical a partir do qual se buscou estabelecer essas conexões. Dessa forma, a abordagem aqui utilizada se insere num meio-termo entre o pensamento atomístico, pois parte do objeto sonoro, e a abordagem holística ou ecológica, pelas conexões necessárias à criação de componentes de nível hierárquico superior. Por tal motivo, utilizou-se o conceito de quase decomponibilidade, criado por Herbert Simon e aplicado a sistemas complexos. Como resultado, foram compostas cinco peças para cordas, a saber: Tractus Mobilis I.a/b (para violino solo e viola solo), Ideoplastie II (para violino e violoncelo), Diagonal Vortex (para violino, viola e violoncelo), Interceptação (quarteto de cordas) e Araneae (quinteto de cordas).

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Horn, Stuart George. "Cultural background and Bender Visual Motor Gestalt test performance : comparison of the performance of Xhosa and white South African adolescents using the Pascal-Suttell scoring system." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008564.

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The quality of the Bender-Gestalt performance of 22, normal, white South African male adolescents and 22, normal, Xhosa male adolescents, aged between 17 and 22 years, was investigated. The Pascal-Suttell scoring system was used. The mean score of the white adolescents was significantly below that of the Xhosa adolescents. It was found that while the mean score of the Xhosa adolescents was within one standard deviation of Pascal and Suttell's normative 'high school' mean, the mean score of the white adolescents was below that of the normative mean and not within one standard deviation of the mean. The results lend support to the findings that Bender performance is related to cultural background. It is suggested that the Pascal-Suttell tables may be in need of revision. The advisability of standardising tables, which are culture specific, for clinical use· in the Southern African context, is indicated.
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Poom, Leo. "Binding Three Kinds of Vision." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Psychology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3319.

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Pictorial cues, together with motion and stereoscopic depth fields, can be used for perception and constitute ‘three kinds’ of vision. Edges in images are important features and can be created in either of these attributes. Are local edge and global shape detection processes attribute-specific? Three visual phenomena, believed to be due to low-level visual processes, were used as probes to address these issues. (1) Tilt illusions (misperceived orientation of a bar caused by an inducing grating) were used to investigate possible binding of edges across attributes. Double dissociation of tilt repulsion illusions (obtained with small orientation differences between inducer and bar) and attraction illusions (obtained with large orientation differences) suggest different mechanisms for their origins. Repulsion effects are believed to be due to processes in striate cortex and attraction because of higher level processing. The double dissociation was reproduced irrespective of the attributes used to create the inducing grating and the test-bar, suggesting that the detection and binding of edges across attributes take place in striate cortex. (2) Luminance-based illusory contour perception is another phenomenon believed to be mediated by processes in early visual cortical areas. Illusory contours can be cued by other attributes as well. Detection facilitation of a near-threshold luminous line occurred when it was superimposed on illusory contours irrespective of the attributes used as inducers. The result suggests attribute-independent activation of edge detectors, responding to real as well as illusory contours. (3) The performance in detecting snake-like shapes composed of aligned oriented elements embedded in randomly oriented noise elements was similar irrespective of the attributes used to create the elements. Performance when the attributes alternated along the path was superior to that predicted with an independent channel model. These results are discussed in terms of binding across attributes by feed-forward activation of orientation selective attribute-invariant cells (conjunction cells) in early stages of processing and contextual modulation and binding across visual space mediated by lateral and/or feedback signals from higher areas (dynamic binding).

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Perlina, Anna. "Shaping the field." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17672.

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Die vorliegende wissenschaftliche Arbeit rekonstruiert die Entwicklung der deutschen Psychologie zwischen der Eröffnung des ersten psychologischen Labors in 1879 und der Gleichschaltung durch das Nazi-Regime in den 1930er Jahren. Die Dissertation stellt den konzeptuellen und methodologischen Rahmen der psychologischen Disziplin anhand von drei Generationen von Pionierforschung dar. Hierbei wird herausgearbeitet, wie sich die frühe experimentelle Psychologie einen eigenen Platz zwischen den Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften kreiert. Die gestaltpsychologische Schule spielt darin eine entscheidende Rolle. Der zentrale Fokus der Arbeit liegt in der historischen Periode zwischen 1922 und 1936, über welche sich Kurt Lewins Untersuchungen zur Handlungs- und Affektpsychologie erstrecken. In dieser deutschen Schaffensperiode wurden der theoretische und methodologische Rahmen, sowie praktische experimentelle Designs erschaffen, welche die amerikanische Arbeit Lewins entscheidend prägten. Der Aufbau von Lewins berühmter Feldtheorie wird im Detail rekonstruiert. Die Dissertation zeigt auf, wie Lewin originelle psychologische Konzepte aus interdisziplinärer Erfahrung formte, und wie experimentelle Praktiken der Zeit die Entstehung eines immer komplexer werdenden Konzeptgerüstes herbeiführten. Anschließend wird die Bedeutung des Gestalt-Lewin-Falles für die Psychologiegeschichte erörtert. In die langfristige Wissenschaftsgeschichte ist Lewins Arbeit nicht etwa als gebündeltes Forschungsgebiet eingegangen. Stattdessen ist sie in so unterschiedliche Bereiche wie Entwicklungs- und Persönlichkeitspsychologie, Soziologie und Wirtschaftsmanagement eingeflossen und hat diese geprägt.
This dissertation represents a historical reconstruction of the development and transformation of German experimental psychology between the emergence of the first experimental laboratory in 1879 and its Gleichschaltung by the Nazi regime in the 1930s. It traces the evolution of the conceptual as well as the experimental framework of psychology over the course of these years following three generations of experimental research. Hereby, the work attempts to grasp how early experimental psychology negotiated its place between the humanities and the natural sciences. The project’s major focus lies in the period between 1922 and 1936, in which Kurt Lewin’s Berlin Experimental Program on Action and Emotions took place. The work specifically investigates the process of constitution of Lewin’s field theory, a system of concepts coined by Lewin in order to study psychological processes underlying human conduct. The dissertation shows how Lewin’s concepts emerged out of interdisciplinary sources, and how experimental practices in psychology triggered the emergence of new knowledge. Eventually, it is shown how the investigated historical case of Gestalt psychology in Berlin fits into and plays a decisive role in the long-term development of experimental psychology.

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Tremault, Éric. "Structure et sensation dans la psychologie de la forme, chez Maurice Merleau-Ponty et William James." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010553/document.

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Nous nous opposons dans cette thèse à la tentative de Maurice Merleau-Ponty pour réduire toute forme de "qualia" à des prédicats structuraux, tentative par laquelle nous comprenons l'ontologie de la « chair » qu'il nous semble mettre en place dès ses premiers travaux sur « l'expression ». Nous visons cependant à travers lui plus généralement toute théorie « structurale» de la sensation, désignant par là toute théorie qui soutient qu'on ne peut pas déterminer relationnellement un contenu de sensation sans le modifier intrinsèquement. La tâche est cependant rendue difficile par le grand nombre de faits empiriques que Merleau-Ponty convoque à l'appui de sa théorie structurale. En particulier, il s'appuie sur l'interprétation structurale de ces faits qui avait déjà été réalisée avant lui par Kurt Koffka au sein de la psychologie de la forme. Nous commençons donc par examiner cette interprétation et les faits sur lesquels elle repose, en montrant qu'ils ne peuvent paraître corroborer une théorie structurale que si l'on confond « abstraire » et « séparer réellement » une qualité de son contexte. Nous convoquons alors William James à l'appui de ces conclusions, en rappelant qu'il avait déjà montré contre les théories néo-hégéliennes de son époque l'illégitimité de leur prétention à se réclamer de faits psychologiques similaires, et qu'il avait soutenu contre eux une théorie de la connaissance par accointance que nous cherchons à reprendre à notre compte, pour esquisser une défense de l'introspection pure et simple
We are trying here to object to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's attempt to reduce qua/ia to structural predicates, which is the way we understand his ontology of the "flesh", as he seems to us to develop it already in his first works on "expression". We are more generally objecting through him to any kind of "structural" theory concerning sensation, meaning by this any theory which claims that one cannot attribute a relation to a sensorial content without intrinsically altering it. Our task is complicated by the great number of empirical facts that Merleau-Ponty calls for to prove his structural theory. He notably finds great help in the structural interpretation Kurt Koffka had already laid down for these facts as a Gestalt psychologist. Consequently, we begin with the examination of this theory and of the facts that support it, showing that they cannot seem to corroborate a structural theory unless one confuses "abstraction" and "real separation" of a qua/e from its context. We then call for William James to support these conclusions, reminding that he had already showed the illegitimacy of the claim by the neo-Hegelian writers of his time to find empirical proof for their own structural theories in similar psychological data. He had also suggested a "knowledge by acquaintance" theory against those writers that we are trying to use in defense for introspection pure and simple

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Filho, Otaviano Bezerra Santana. "Gestaltterapia e experiência religiosa: relação e cura." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2014. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1004.

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O presente trabalho teve por objetivo pesquisar sobre o fenômeno religioso e a fé como dimensão da alteridade, assim como pesquisar possíveis relações com a Gestaltterapia do diálogo e cura. A pesquisa foi de natureza bibliográfica numa perspectiva fenomenológica e existencial que teve como fundamento as obras de Martin Buber da Filosofia do Diálogo e seu existencialismo religioso da eterna relação entre Eu-Tu, o Eu-Isso e o Tu eterno. Somado a este, também se problematizou a visão de Rudolf Otto do numinoso e outros autores como Mircea Eliade, teóricos da Gestaltterapia, Heidegger, Viktor Frankl, entre outros. Nossos resultados e discussões foram apresentados a partir de três dimensões. A primeira foi focalizar o fenômeno religioso em íntima relação com a noção da experiência de alteridade. O segundo passo consistiu em pesquisar sobre uma possível aproximação entre o pensamento da Gestaltterapia e a experiência religiosa. Por fim, se pretendeu compreender a Gestaltterapia e a espiritualidade como espaço de encontro do diálogo e cura.

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Délécraz, Cyril. "La paramétrisation du geste dans les formes musicales scéniques : L'exemple du théâtre musical contemporain : état de l'art, historiographie, analyse." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AZUR2015/document.

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Au cours du XXe siècle, le geste est progressivement devenu un paramètre de composition musicale dans les répertoires de tradition savante occidentale. Les avant-gardes (Dada, futurisme, Bauhaus, expressionnisme, etc.) sont à l’origine du concept de performance tandis que le bruitisme élargit le domaine des sons esthétiquement audibles. Rejetant le grand opéra romantique et tous ses attributs (technique de chant lyrique, suprématie du texte dramatique sur la musique, fosse d’orchestre, illusion de la réalité, opulence orchestrale, entractes, etc.) les compositeurs ressentent le besoin de s’exprimer autrement, tandis que la capacité de renouvellement du système tonal s’étiole. Ils définissent de nouvelles formes musicales scéniques dans un cadre dicté par la performance et selon une nouvelle conscience de l’écoute issue de nombreuses expérimentations réalisées en studio. C’est au lendemain de la seconde guerre, c’est-à-dire lors de l’avènement de la musique concrète, que la voix s’impose non plus seulement comme le vecteur de la parole mais également comme un générateur de sons, que l’espace scénique se vide de l’interprète et que, en retour, certains compositeurs (Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, Luciano Berio, John Cage, pour ne citer qu’eux) proposent des pièces hybrides où la musique côtoie la diction d’un récitant, la pantomime ou l’action théâtrale sans que l’une des composantes ne prenne constamment le dessus sur les autres. Selon une approche empirique du corps médiatisé par le truchement de la captation vidéo (sur un corpus s’étalant de 1960 à 2016), il est possible de mettre en lumière des contrepoints d’informations provenant de plusieurs éléments des performances enregistrées (musique, gestes, déplacements, lumière, etc.), qui construisent en fin de compte une réalité signifiante pour l’auditeur-spectateur. En analysant directement les oeuvres performées, il apparait que le geste est en effet un élément structurel de caractère spectaculaire qui participe à la création de formes discursives et, par-là, il constitue un élément indispensable de la réception. En se focalisant sur la paramétrisation du geste, le présent travail apporte un premier élément de réponse à la question suivante : comment la performance musicale, dans son aspect vivant, intègre le geste et comment celui-ci influe-t-il la forme ? Il espère ainsi ouvrir la voie à une musicologie du théâtre musical contemporain
Over the course of the 20th century, gesture gradually became a parameter of musical composition in the repertoires of the Western classical tradition. The avant-garde (Dada, futurism, Bauhaus, expressionism, etc.) is at the origin of performance concept while noise music broadens the field of aesthetically audible sounds. Rejecting the romantic opera and all its attributes (lyrical singing technique, supremacy of the dramatic text over music, orchestra pit, the illusion of the reality, orchestral opulence, intermissions, etc.), composers feel the need to express themselves differently, while the capacity for renewal of the tonal system wanes. They define new scenic musical forms in a framework dictated by performance and in accordance with a new awareness of listening resulting from numerous experiments carried out in the musical studios. After World War II, with the advent of concrete music, the voice became not only the vector of speech but also a generator of sound, the scenic space was rid of the performer and, in return, some composers (Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, Luciano Berio, John Cage, to name but a few) offered hybrid pieces where music is combined with the diction of a narrator, pantomime or theatrical action, without one component constantly getting the upper hand. According to an empirical approach to the body mediated through video recording (based on a corpus stretching from 1960 to 2016), it is possible to highlight counterpoints of information from several elements of the recorded performances (music, gestures, movements, light, etc.), which ultimately construct a meaningful reality for the listener-spectator. By directly analysing the performative works, it appears that the gesture is indeed a structural element of a spectacular nature that participates in the creation of discursive forms and, consequently constituting an indispensable element of reception. By focusing on the parameterisation of the gesture, this work provides a first element of answer to the following question: how does musical performance, in its living aspect, integrate the gesture and how does it influence the form? In this way, it hopes to pave the way for a musicology of contemporary music theatre

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Santana, Filho Otaviano Bezerra. "Gestaltterapia e experiência religiosa: relação e cura." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2014. http://tede2.unicap.br:8080/handle/tede/205.

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The present study aimed to research the religious phenomenon and faith as a dimension of otherness , as well as investigate possible relations with Gestalt therapy dialogue and healing. The research was a phenomenological nature of literature and existential perspective that was founded the works of Martin Buber 's Philosophy of Dialogue and its religious existentialism of the eternal relationship between " I-Thou , I - It and the eternal Thou ." Added to this , also problematized the vision of Rudolf Otto 's numinous and other authors such as Mircea Eliade , Gestalt therapy theorists , Heidegger , Viktor Frankl , among others . Our results and discussions were presented from three dimensions . The first was to focus on the religious phenomenon intimately related to the notion of the experience of otherness . The second step was to search for a possible rapprochement between the thought of Gestalt Therapy and religious experience . Finally , we sought to understand Gestalt Therapy and Spirituality as a space for dialogue and healing.
O presente trabalho teve por objetivo pesquisar sobre o fenômeno religioso e a fé como dimensão da alteridade, assim como pesquisar possíveis relações com a Gestaltterapia do diálogo e cura. A pesquisa foi de natureza bibliográfica numa perspectiva fenomenológica e existencial que teve como fundamento as obras de Martin Buber da Filosofia do Diálogo e seu existencialismo religioso da eterna relação entre Eu-Tu, o Eu-Isso e o Tu eterno . Somado a este, também se problematizou a visão de Rudolf Otto do numinoso e outros autores como Mircea Eliade, teóricos da Gestaltterapia, Heidegger, Viktor Frankl, entre outros. Nossos resultados e discussões foram apresentados a partir de três dimensões. A primeira foi focalizar o fenômeno religioso em íntima relação com a noção da experiência de alteridade. O segundo passo consistiu em pesquisar sobre uma possível aproximação entre o pensamento da Gestaltterapia e a experiência religiosa. Por fim, se pretendeu compreender a Gestaltterapia e a espiritualidade como espaço de encontro do diálogo e cura.

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Meyer, Michaela. "Erzählte Psychoanalyse? die "Wende nach Innen" in der modernen Literatur, dargestellt anhand ausgewählter Texte von Stefan Zweig, John Davys Beresford und May Sinclair." Essen Verl. Die Blaue Eule, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994036868/04.

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Hurwitz, Jaqueline. "Exploring equine assisted psychotherapy for adolescents in residential care." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85745.

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Thesis (MEd(Psych))-- Stellenbosch University, 2013.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The background experiences of adolescents removed from their families and placed in residential care are often characterised by trauma, abuse and neglect, resulting in significant psychological and developmental implications. However, as a result of their negative past experiences, many of these individuals view other people, including helping professionals, with mistrust or apprehension, influencing their openness to and thus the effectiveness of traditional psychotherapeutic interventions. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) is explored within this study as an alternative non-invasive approach which aims to meet the emotional and developmental needs of vulnerable and difficult-to-reach adolescents. Innate characteristics of horses seem to encourage individuals to engage fully in the psychotherapeutic process making them well-suited to the role of co-therapist within the therapeutic team. This study aimed to explore the experiences of adolescents living within residential care who had participated in an EAP program for approximately eight months, and the affects their participation had within their lives. A qualitative study founded within the interpretive paradigm was used to gain insight into the research questions. Participants were selected using purposive and convenient sampling techniques. Following this, data was obtained through semi-structured interviews, the researcher’s reflective journal, and a focus group discussion. Inductive data segmentation and reassembling techniques were utilised to analyse the data. The findings were integrated and presented as a case study. The research findings indicated that the participants experienced various learning and development opportunities through their participation in EAP. They were able to establish connections which led to improved psychological, social, and physical well-being. The implicit integration of the Circle of Courage principles of mastery, belonging, generosity and independence within the EAP process was also explored and documented for the first time within this text. The findings were related to resilience theory in order to depict EAP as a psychotherapeutic approach which serves to foster resilience for vulnerable adolescents, namely those placed within residential care in this study.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die agtergrond ervaringe van adolessente wat verwyder is uit hul ouerhuise en in residensiële sorg geplaas is, word dikwels gekenmerk deur trauma, mishandeling en verwaarlosing, met beduidende gepaardgaande sielkundige - en ontwikkelingsimplikasies. Voortvloeiend uit hul negatiewe ervaringe van die verlede, is dit moeilik vir sommige van hierdie individue om ander mense, en dit sluit professionele mense in die hulp-professies in, te vertrou en sonder bedugtheid te benader. Dit beïnvloed hul openlikheid en dus die effektiwiteit van tradisionele psigoterapeutiese intervensies. Perd-ondersteunde psigoterapie (Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, EAP) word ondersoek in hierdie studie as ‘n alternatiewe, nie-indringende benadering, waarvan die doel is om die emosionele - en ontwikkelingsbehoeftes van weerlose en moeilik-bereikbare adolessente mee aan te spreek. Dit wil voorkom asof ingebore eienskappe van perde individue aanmoedig om ten volle deel te neem aan die psigoterapeutiese proses, en dit maak die perde baie geskik om as hulp-terapeute op te tree binne die terapeutiese span. Hierdie studie beoog om die ervaringe van adolessente in residensiële sorg, en wat vir agt maande deelgeneem het aan ‘n EAP program, te ondersoek, sowel as die effek wat hierdie deelname op hul lewens gehad het. ‘n Kwalitatiewe studie gebaseer op die interpretatiewe paradigma is gebruik om insig te verkry in die navorsingsvrae. Deelnemers is geselekteer deur doelgerigte - en gerieflikheidstegnieke te gebruik. Hierna is data verkry deur semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude, die navorser se reflektiewe joernaal en ‘n fokusgroep onderhoud. Induktiewe data segmentasie en hersamestellingstegnieke is gebruik om die data te analiseer. Die bevindinge is geïntegreer en aangebied as ‘n gevallestudie. Die bevindige van die studie dui aan dat die deelnemers verskeie leer- en ontwikkelingsgeleenthede ervaar het deur hul deelname aan EAP. Hulle was in staat om konneksies te maak wat bygedra het tot sielkundige, sosiale en fisiese welsyn. The research findings indicated that the participants experienced various learning and development opportunities through their participation in EAP. Die implisiete integrasie van die beginsels van die ‘Circle of Courage’, naamlik bemeestering, behoort aan, ruimhartigheid en onafhanklikheid, is binne die EAP proses ondersoek en vir die eerste keer in hierdie teks gedokumenteer. Die bevindinge is vergelyk met veerkragtigheid teorie om EAP as ‘n psigoterapeutiese benadering te beskryf wat veerkragtigheid aanmoedig by weerlose adolessente, naamlik dié wat in residensiële sorg geplaas is en aan hierdie studie deelgeneem het.

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Eraydin, Zeynep. "Building A Legible City: How Far Planning Is Successful In Ankara." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608221/index.pdf.

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Human environment perceptual relationships have significant effects on human psychology in urban spaces. The concepts of urban legibility and imageability concentrate on these relationships and define components to create livable places by organizing the physical structure. However, determining legibility components is not sufficient in order to define whether a place legible or not. This thesis explores Gestalt laws of perception can be used to re-define the relationships among legibility components by setting some guidelines. The main aim of this thesis is to find out how far planning is successful in creating legible environments which is evaluated by legibility guidelines set. The thesis also aims to explore issues that make an environment more readable than others. To this end, Ç
ayyolu district containing several sub-districts which are recently developed by plans are examined in a comparable way. The result of the analyses show that the concepts of legibility and imageability are underestimated in planning practices in Ç
ayyolu which is based on two-dimensional subdivisions of lands and three dimensional determination of bulks of structures. In other words, the Ç
ayyolu district does not provide a legible environment and a whole structure for observers that their psychological needs should be met.

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Freedman, Grant. "The string model: a gestalt approach to consulting psychology." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1659.

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This exploratory research addressed the challenge of improving consulting psychologists' ability to add value to their clients in a complex world, in which it is increasingly difficult to differentiate and understand domain phenomena and to promote healthy growth and development in individuals, groups and organisations. To solve this problem, a Gestalt Approach, comprising the String Model and a congruent methodological framework, was developed using analogies and metaphors from the physical sciences. The Gestalt Approach was applied at the individual, group and organisational levels. The String Model promoted excitement and interest in the client systems and desedimented preconceptions and patterns of thinking, facilitating the destruction of existing figures, and the differentiation and exploration of new figures from background phenomena. The methodological framework promoted experimentation and dialogue in an environment conducive to exploration and promoted contact with foreground phenomena. At the individual level, awareness was heightened of the role and development of a historically disadvantaged South African. The individual and the position for which he was being developed were described in terms of the String Model, creating insights which were not in the client system before. A clear, holistic picture of the individual's developmental areas emerged. The approach facilitated contact between the individual and key roleplayers who must create an enabling environment and provide resources conducive to individual development. At the group level, the String Model proved useful in assisting a Board of Directors to clearly differentiate the Board from other groups in the client system. Discussion amongst the participants, who had diverse perspectives, promoted a common understanding of the Board's structure and functioning. Participants were able to differentiate the current dysfunctional status of the Board from the ideal in String Model terms and develop a joint plan to make the Board a healthier entity. At the organisational level, the model according to which a gold mine was structured and managed, was changed due to insights engendered by the Gestalt Approach. The String Model proved to be useful in conceptualising the mine as a whole, with the various sub-systems thereof inextricably related. Changes were made that promote interaction, communication, integration and performance.
Industrial Psychology
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Kao, Chi-Yu, and 高冀宇. "Using Gestalt psychology to discuss chair shape design's application." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01494504975843435503.

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In my younger brother’s cognition that one timeworn classical sofa is much valuable than one so called master designer’s classical sofa. For my mother, the timeworn sofa is super precious than anything else because it is even older than my younger brother which exists in our house for a long time since my younger brother hadn’t been born. The timeworn classical sofa gives us a lot of good memories. If we don’t have any life experiences connect to our cognition or knowledge we learned then we won’t have perception on things or on products. Conversely, if we have same experiences connect to our cognition or knowledge then we could response to it sympathetically. If one master designer’s classical sofa is different from our old perception which might be attract our attention. This research is using Gestalt psychology’s behavior and environment to be the background, then discuss how human being to acknowledge from chair’s shape, further to re-organize and analysis current products. This research divide into two design ways: 1. cognitive conflict application technique 2. feature image application technique. The cognitive conflict application technique contains: material cognition, structure cognition, usage situation, symbol image. The feature image application technique contains: material, texture, colors, structure & symbol image. This research is using the feature imagine application technique to create one piece 1:5 scale model then discuss the real model has any design weak points or wrong theory need to adjust. This conclusion from the research could be the reference information for the designer. This method could help designer to build up the element for initial period design rapidly. It could help designer or customer know the visual effect and reduce time and cost during this period of time.

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Parnian, Shahla. "Standardization of bender-gestalt test on children." Thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4446.

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Qi, Yu-Si, and 戚羽絲. "The Study and Creation of Geometric Face by using Gestalt Psychology." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79r6pu.

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設計學系
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With the development of internet, the visual vocabularies, patterns, and symbols have become a communicated bridge of globalization , they are not affected by language, nation, culture and geographical restrictions. These visual vocabularies, patterns, and symbols could exchange visual message rapidly through a variety of digital carrier especially among young people. As a famous Canadian educator and media theorist, Marshall Mike, said ‘The modern society culture has transformed from literal culture into graphic culture, and we have entered an era of reading pictures’. The visual psychology is the theoretical foundation and design principle of Gestalt Psychology, the perception of Graphical can be affected by past experience. And the new images also can be affected by past memory traces, according to the Theory of Gestalt Law in Gestalt Psychology such as ‘Similarity’, ‘Proximity’, ‘Closure’ and ‘Continuity’, these theory can be utilized to analyzing the facial identification. For example, placing four black dots in a perceptional field at five centimeters by five centimeters, there are fifty different shapes due to the difference position of the four black spots, then, according to fourteen facial features were obtained by analyzing five hundred questionnaires and analyzing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean, the popular vocabulary of young people, text structure, and the design of stroke and position. Each figure as a recognizable face can be rendered expressive features. Similar to other visual vocabularies, patterns and symbols, through the printing of short sleeve clothing as communication carrier, this thesis aim to let people wearing these clothes design facial expressions to maximize visual appeal and apply Gestalt Psychology.

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TSAI, FANG TZU, and 蔡芳姿. "The Study and Creation on Digital images - Applying the grouping principle of Gestalt psychology." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45872779623931647594.

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國立臺灣師範大學
設計研究所在職進修碩士班
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Abstract It is essential for a graphic designer to understand the people''s manner and ability in "seeing" a work, in order to design some comprehensive, prolific, diverse, and interesting graphics. It can help the viewers see and absorb the messages easier. Likewise, the study of Gestalt psychology and visual theory can provide the designers with the basic nutrients and facilitate them with powerful tools in design because the study of these theories enables the designers to better understand the operation of people''s visual capacities and their aesthetic preference. As a result, it allows the designers to grasp and represent the messages they want to transmit more accurately. First, the study aims to explore the people''s feelings and the corresponding sensual organs to understand the formation of the senses and related visual theory. Then, it further explores the "grouping principle", which is formed by applying Gestalt psychology in the studies of people''s senses, as the core theoretical framework. In addition, the researcher would like to investigate its impacts on graphic design. Eventually, targeting at various feelings and sensual interactions, the project intends to fathom the visual theories and factors that should be considered when designing a work, to grasp the people''s senses and responses effectively, so as to apply them in digital image creation and design. In recent years, it is the trend for designers to create something out of nothing with computer software. When creating digital images by using a digital camera, the designers process the images with the computer to preserve and create their works. Likewise, in this project the researcher employs a digital camera and computer graphic software as major tools. In the experimental process, the manner of applying digital media and the process of digital design and creation will be recorded to provide the designers with more effective methods and broader perspectives toward the creations. In the research, the project discovered： 1 Applying the "grouping principles" makes the creative works more powerful and sparkle with vitality. 2 In visual arrangement and the applications of graphics, the "grouping principle" is proved to be positive in inspiring designers. 3 The flexible application of the "grouping principle", a branch of Gestalt psychology, can help accomplish the goal of seeking "standardization within diversification, and diversification within standardization." 4 The designers'' manners and ideas are bound by the media they employed when designing with various kinds of media and methods. However, humanistic concern can move people more.

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Kang, Ciou-Yan, and 康楸燕. "Using the Closure Principle of Gestalt psychology to discuss Video Installation in window display." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/982au9.

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崑山科技大學
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How to attract the consumers’ attention and do the business is quite wisdom in commercial behavior. It involves many theories. To professional visual designers, it is one of the most important issues to study how to create attractive window display. Via the process of plane, three-dimensional and spatial information collecting, this study discusses whether the closure principle in Gestalt psychology can not only be applied to graphic design, but also the three-dimensional works and space management, in order to generate more multi innovative ideas. This study will address the technique of video installation media applied to the combination of window display and token display. The use value of video installation media to window display will be revaluated. The study purpose is to present the formation of perceptional field between the screen and the device, in order to achieve the time and space visual blocked effect. After we attach the important points to the window display with video installation devices, the original video installation will be combined with the novel visual concept, and thus we can see whether visual block in gestalt psychology works. If it does work, the window display can not only promote merchandise, but also be an artistic performative space itself.

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Yeh, ChengHsin, and 葉政鑫. "A Study on the Effect of Attention in Product Interface Structure - Applying Gestalt Psychology." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71818633075295535396.

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國立雲林科技大學
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Human being’s sensory system in the real worls perception can be broadly divided into “the figure” and “the background”. The figure means the object’s figure upon which the visual sensor focuses while the background means the parts that surround the object’s figure. Therefore the figure’s visual stimulus intensity determine upon the diversity between the objects itself and the background. The grouping rules, during the process of visual perception, offer people an important feature structure in visual stimulus and help us to make judgments on objects’ physical structure and all sorts of phenomena. In Wickens’ Human Information Processing Model, there will be a continuous series of stages after the sensory system perceives a stimulus: in consequence the pre-attention, sensory decoding, filtering and making choices, shape recognition, short term memory, and long term memory. In the study, emphasis was placed on the “Attention” stage of user’s perception process. The study will explore the way to search and recognize the target when users operate the interface making by Gestalt Psychology. Gestalt psychologists consider that the whole organization, not the partial ones, is the principal cause. The experiments designed in this study based on the “Holistic perceptual rules” of Gestalt and creat the experiment’s targets being searchd by the grouping rules’ “Law of Proximity” and “Law of Similarity”, the response time of searching target is recorded for the further analysis. The study comes out several conclusions from the experiments: 1) There’s a fixed beginning point for the search which is nearly the center below of the all, but without no fixed search route. 2) The variations of intervals between buttons have no obvious influence on the response time for searching targets. 3) Within the different degrees of similarity of buttons, users are influenced by the contrast between the figure and ground. They can’t seek the target easily when the buttons’ forms become more similar. 4) The results of the experiments is different from Neisser’s experiment. It can be infered that the way of searching letters is different form the way of searching geometric buttons. 5) If the buttons are too similar to cause the contrast between figure and ground being indistinct or reverse, users will be forced to use the way of matching one by one to find the target, it causes then the response time will be much longer.

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