Using Gestalt Therapy to treat depression is a useful and interesting strategy that allows, for example, to readjust ourselves to our reality in a more creative way, solving emotional blockages to connect with ourselves and everything that concerns us more validly and safely. .
We are facing a type of trend that still finds its place in the clinical world, however, its effectiveness is obvious and it is worth going a little deeper into this current of psychology, for example, the central point that defines it is the idea that people are still in continuous transformation.
- “I know who you are.
- To see who you are and who you are.
- Let’s say what you have to do for a moment and find out what you’re really doing.
- Fritz Perls?”.
Thus, and in this constant mutation, conflicts, inadequacies and tensions are common. In this continuous interaction between our organism and what surrounds us, many times there are parts that do not fit and break with this balance between him and him?Everything around us.
Depression is undoubtedly one of the most common problems (or imbalances), and according to Gestalt psychotherapy, depressive disorders occur when there is a blockage, when our reality ceases to have harmony and we even lose the ability to connect with ourselves and our needs. .
However, it is clear that each psychological approach and therapeutic school has its own unique strategy to combat this disease; However, it must be said that Gestalt therapy is very effective in working with the blocks mentioned above and in turn promoting our self-realization. Let’s look at 4 keys to understanding your business a little better.
With the expressive techniques of Gestalt Therapy we seek something very concrete: to bring out our internal tensions, to channel the energy generated by the node of our conflicts and to define gradually and aloud the root of our problems.
To treat depression, according to Gestalt therapy, it is very useful to get the patient to apply a “suppressive” approach. Now, what do we mean by suppressive technique? As the word itself indicates, we will eliminate something, something that breaks with the harmony of the whole that surrounds us and, in turn, blocks this healthy union with our inner being.
For Gestalt, the depressive experience implies personal defragmentation, our reality is broken down, and we are disconnected from our internal needs and the context around us, with which, therefore, we do not feel identified, Gestalt therapy seeks to promote this integration between our organisms and the environment, this balance now lost. Integrative techniques have this objective and operate according to two strategies:
The therapeutic work of Gestalt not only seeks to get rid of our blockages or solve outstanding problems that sometimes also break with the whole that configures us, what the therapist will try to do with us is that with therapy we end up being freer and more creative. people when it comes to solving our daily problems.
Therefore, it is not enough to cure, to overcome depression, it is necessary to learn this process through a creative adjustment, pulling something new, a stimulating impulse to acquire new resources and skills to create a richer, more favorable and, of course, happy atmosphere present.
As Fritz Perls said, creative adjustment is a transformative impulse, an impulse that allows us to move forward, feel refreshed, stronger and also more skilled, in this way, and to conclude, we must not forget that in this way recover our inner homeostasis and perfect harmony with what surrounds us, we must also integrate new skills to advance the path of life with greater solvency.
We must therefore express what is in us, come into contact with our emotions and let them go, let them manifest themselves, however, it is worth saying that this process between the therapist and the patient gives excellent results every time the “consciousness” occurs, that is, the stage by which the person “realizes”, becomes aware of what he thinks , feels and happens in it.