SANTOS, Willian Henrique Silva dos et al. Gestalt therapy in the care of women victims of domestic violence. IGT rede []. 2023, 20, 39, pp.113-158.   20--2025. ISSN 1807-2526.  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15149817.

Gestalt therapy, also known as “contact therapy”, is a humanistic, phenomenological and existential approach that considers “contact” to be an experiential and relational process that enables the satisfaction of needs and human development. Based on this approach, this article sought both to understand the phenomenon of domestic violence against women and to present a proposal for psychotherapeutic care to this demand. Through a narrative bibliographic review, it was observed that domestic violence against women is a multifactorial and persistent phenomenon that has sexist and patriarchal socio-historical foundations that promote relationships in which women are dominated, subjecting themselves to repetitive cycles of abuse physical and psychological. For Gestalt therapy, women victims of domestic violence block contact for the purpose of self-preservation; however, this discontinued contact still remains active, generating suffering and stagnating the process of existential updating. Given this, the gestalt-therapist will seek to provide his client with a dialogical, safe and confirming relationship, in which she can sustain interrupted and unfinished contact experiences. With this, it aims to reestablish human development, promoting healing through change.

: Gestalt therapy; Violence against women; Psychotherapy; Domestic violence; Contact cycle.

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