Publication details
Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/index.php/psywis/article/view/3152 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2020-2-39 |
| Keywords | Gestalt therapy; depression; grief; psychopathology; self-functions |
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| Description | Mourning and depressive experience are distinguished to highlight the core of the suffering of people in depression. In the mourning experience a specific person or situation becomes unreachable and therein lies the loss suffered. The experience of melancholic depression differs: what is lost is that which anchors the subject to the fabric which connects him/her to the world. A radically relational approach to depression where the client and therapist are seen as depressing here and now in the therapy’s situation is introduced. |