How it worked: A client faces an empty chair, imagines his demon sitting in it, and speaks his thoughts and feelings with no filters
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e·stalt
/gə ’SHtält/
noun PSYCHOLOGY An organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.
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A movement in psychology founded in Germany in 1912, seeking to explain perceptions in terms of gestalts rather than by analyzing their constituents.
Gestalt psychologists argued that these principles exist because the mind has an innate disposition to perceive patterns in the stimulus based on certain rules. These principles are organized into five categories: Proximity, Similarity, Continuity, Closure, and Connectedness.
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I launched Word and started copying over passages. Once again, I berated myself for letting Kimberly talk me into this workshop. I may be a top-rated graphic designer, but a panelist I was not. But that was Kimberly. She invited you, you said yes, even if your brain was having a full-blown tantrum while you nodded modestly.
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