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is very difficult to bring that person into the present and now. And it will be difficult to remove them from feeling like they are lost in the world and that they will never be able to find their way back. A person who is suffering from loneliness, and isolation tends to believe their world has become broken. In order for Gestalt to work, a person has to become depersonalized, which means that they are going to have to interact with others, and that person is going to have to stop covering up their problems and start facing them. Gestalt therapy gets a person thinking about themselves in positive ways, it changes their thinking from " I guess I can do that". " I will try and do that". " I think I can do that", into " I can do that". I will do that". " I know I can do that". It is not uncommon for a person to feel estranged from nature, so that person has to rediscover their world, and they have to begin to see the world as meaningful. It is up to an individual to see the openness of the world, and the possibilities for themselves, or they can accept the world as closed, and continue living in the past, instead of the present and now. (May, R. The Discovery Of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology, Pg 117,118,119,120,121,122,123,12 4,125)

I love Gestalt therapy because you can have a lot of problems, you can believe the world is against you, and unlike other therapies, where you build up to the problems and eventually come to a solution that is going to help you deal with your current situations. Gestalt therapy is designed for you to take all your problems and all your beliefs about the world and except responsibility in the present and now and not look back, and take an I can attitude and move forward. Gestalt therapy does not build into the problems and it does not find a solution for dealing with your current situations, you are either going to go into Gestalt therapy taking responsibility for everything, and not blaming others for your pitfalls in life, and if a person is unable to that, than they are going to have to look at other therapies.

Gestalt is in your face therapy, and it is not for everyone. A Gestalt therapist does not feel sorry for you or your life or your the choices you have made, and
if you go into Gestalt therapy and start blaming other people for your problems, the therapist is going to turn it around on you. Gestalt therapy has one main purpose, and that is to make the individual take responsibility for their own life and the choices that they have made, and the choices that they are going to make.

The weaknesses of Gestalt therapy are not everybody is ready to take responsibility for their own lives and the choices that they have made, and if someone does Gestalt and they are not ready for it, it could send a person into serious depression, and it can make a person really believe they do not belong in this world, and that they are the fault of their own problems. In order for Gestalt to work, a person has to be 100% committed to taking responsibility and control of their own lives.

The strengths of Gestalt therapy, if a person is ready to face everything head on and not look back; they can have a whole new outlook on life. The final stage in Maslow's pyramid is self actualization, that is no different than Gestalt therapy because once you reach that stage, you are now in control of your own life, your own choices, and your own future, and you stop relying on other people, and you stop placing blame for why your life is the way it is.

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