Discover a world of learning on our YouTube channel: @aprendemosdetodo! ONLINE CLASSES - EDUCATIONAL ADVICE - EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS Join our community and access incredible benefits that will transform the way you learn! Don't miss our updates and exclusive content: ► Follow us on Instagram: @aprendemosdetodo ► We're also on TikTok! Find us at: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLhhoSnD/ Contact us! ► Email: [email protected] Your opinion is crucial! Subscribe, comment, and share your ideas with us. Meet our educational advisor! Lic. Paola Albareti, primary school teacher, graduate in education, self-taught, and educational researcher. Support us and help us continue creating quality content! ► Make your donations through Mercado Pago: aprendemosdetodo (Alias) ► You can also donate through PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/aprendemosdetodo Thank you for your support! Together we build a future of limitless knowledge and learning. Gestalt What is Gestalt theory? Gestalt is a school of psychology, with a theoretical and experimental nature, which is dedicated to the study of human perception. Gestalt is a word from German, and can be translated as 'form' or 'contour'. Gestalt Theory The Gestalt school was born in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, with the contribution of researchers Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka, who postulated perception as the basic process of human mental activity, so that the rest of the operations of a psychic nature, such as thinking, learning or memory, would be subordinated to the correct functioning of the perceptual organization processes. For Gestalt, humans organize their perceptions as totalities, as a form or configuration, and not as a simple sum of their parts. From there, what is perceived goes from being a set of spots to becoming people, objects or scenes. In this sense, it is a discipline that studies the process by which our brain orders and gives form (that is, meaning) to the images it receives from the external world or from what it has found relevant. See also Psychology. Laws of Gestalt The laws of Gestalt or laws of perception are a set of principles according to which the human brain will always tend to transform or organize the elements it perceives into a coherent whole, endowed with form and meaning. The most important laws of perception are: Law of proximity The brain groups together as a set those series of elements that are at the shortest distance. Law of continuity The brain tends to ignore changes that interrupt an image and prioritizes stimuli that allow the image to be appreciated continuously. Law of figure and background The brain locates contours, separates objects and establishes distinctions between them. Law of similarity or equality The brain tends to unite or group together the elements that are most similar to each other. Law of common direction The brain identifies as a group those elements that give the impression of moving or converging towards the same point. Law of tendency to closure The brain tends to imaginatively complete the missing or interrupted lines in the outline of figures. Law of contrast The brain attributes qualities to different elements by contrast: large - small, light - dark, blurry - sharp. Law of pregnance The brain tends to organize and perceive elements in the simplest and most correct way possible, under criteria of symmetry, regularity and stability. Gestalt in psychotherapy The concept of Gestalt evolved into a therapeutic method developed by German psychologists Fritz Perls and Laura Posner in the 1940s, and popularized in the United States during the second half of the 20th century. Gestalt therapy is an experiential therapeutic system that emerged as an alternative to the psychotherapies of the time, which focused essentially on working on the experiences and unresolved issues of the individual's past, starting from childhood. Unlike these, Gestalt therapy seeks to focus on the individual's present, on what he or she feels and thinks, on the here and now, opting to use the first person to refer to experiences and thus put into operation the "realization", that is, awakening the individual's awareness of himself or herself, his or her actions and being, emphasizing contact with his or her own emotions. All this with the aim of the person becoming himself or herself, more complete, free and independent, for his or her self-realization and personal growth. In this way, the objective of Gestalt therapy is, above all, to develop the maximum potential of the person.