Gestalt Therapy Quotes

“We must, for instance, face the fact that we blandly commit what to the experimentalist is the most unpardonable of sins: we include the experimenter in the experiment!”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality

“But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It is only a small factor in the total organism/environment interaction, but it plays the crucial role of finding and making the meanings that we grow by.”
― Paul Goodman, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement & Growth in the Human Personality

“Awareness is like the glow of a coal which comes from its own combustion... In awareness a process is taking place in the coal (the total organism).”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality

“Apart from detailed analysis and taking apart (destruction), there can be no close contact, excited discovery, and true love of any object (which, as we use the term, always includes persons).”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality