Open AccessGestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences
Author(s) -
Gianni Francesetti,
Jan Roubal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychotherapie-wissenschaft
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1664-9591
pISSN - 1664-9583
DOI - 10.30820/1664-9583-2020-2-39
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , gestalt therapy , gestalt psychology , psychology , psychotherapist , subject (documents) , depressive symptoms , core (optical fiber) , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , engineering , computer science , cognition , telecommunications , perception , neuroscience , library science , economics , macroeconomics
Mourning and depressive experience are distinguished to highlight the core of the suffering of people in depression. In the mourning experience a specific person or situation becomes unreachable and therein lies the loss suffered. The experience of melancholic depression differs: what is lost is that which anchors the subject to the fabric which connects him/her to the world. A radically relational approach to depression where the client and therapist are seen as depressing here and now in the therapy’s situation is introduced.