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You are sure to recognize familiar landmarks in her mixed media works: signs, landscapes, icons and animals blend into a " gestalt " of Owen Sound and area. ...

How do Gestalt psychology and synesthesia mix with each other?
Q. Can synesthesia unlock some secrets about how our brains associate, compare, and group?
Asked by Leif B - Wed Jun 4 17:05:43 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Gestalt psych deals a lot with 'inner dialogue', searching out first what a person's 'hobby horse' may be, (compulsively re-imagining old conflicts, without resolution) and proceeding to bring these to surface of one's awareness, often with near-theatrical 'acting out'. This dissolves the 'past life' enabling one to live 'here and now'. (Regard this as a very superficial summary, sans complexities.) Synesthesia describes an overlapping of the five senses, often experienced by pre-schoolers or those indulging in psychomimetic drugs. It is certainly a here-and-now in that sensations are combined, in often hallucinatory effects, experienced in a giddy and entertaining way, except for those attempting linear tasks such as work.. My 'guess' is… [cont.]
Answered by hurtin' - Wed Jun 4 17:52:47 2008

Can you give me an example of Gestalt Therapy ?
Q. I think I understand the core concept of the Gestalt therapy and theory, but am hapving difficulty imagining it in practice. Do you know of any patient/therapist scripts or appointment record so I can see how the therapist speaks to the patient and what kinds of questioning they use? THANKS!
Asked by canajen - Tue Nov 27 09:34:43 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. There's an interview with Frizt Perls on this website where the interviewer pretends to be a patient and Fritz pretends to cure him of his fear of flying: There is more information here: Hope that helps! :)
Answered by Fortis cadere cedere non potest - Tue Nov 27 11:32:02 2007

Could the gestalt principles of psychology also apply to sound/music?
Q. I was thinking that it could because there are a lot of similarities between the two. Proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness and closure could apply to music but I was just wondering if it was really possible to apply those principles to music.
Asked by I want my OLD! mtv - Wed May 27 07:37:33 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Of course they can and do. If you look hard enough, you can find many examples. In language I remember listening to a research talk in which the researcher found that people heard a phoneme where there was silence because a sound before the silence and a sound after the silence occurred in a certain relationship and form to one another, demonstrating the concept of closure from a Gestalt perspective, but I don't think he was a Gestaltist, but a constructivist of one kind or other.
Answered by cavassi - Wed May 27 19:44:56 2009