Abstract

FILHO, Ananias Oliveira  and  GOMES, Patricia Wallersntein. Phenomenology in Gestalt Therapy: Method or crutch?. IGT rede [online]. 2012, vol.9, n.16, pp. 71-85. ISSN 1807-2526.

Gestalt therapy is based on methodological, Phenomenology. It is presented throughout the text issues still to be clarified that in its scope Gestalt therapy suffers from methodological and precariousness. Making use of phenomenology to foster its epistemological bases, Gestalt therapy, did not largely endorsed with discernment. It is pertinent to ask the real and fundamental appropriateness of the Phenomenological Reduction conceived by Husserl and Heidegger in sight of man for Gestalt Therapy. For the principles of questioning and questioning, they have defended respectively by Gadamer (2000) and Popper (2001), as the dynamos that drive the movement of construction and upgrading of knowledge. If further studies are needed to better design on the method in Gestalt Therapy.

Keywords : Gestalt Therapy; Phenomenology; Method.

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