What is gestalt.
"You Just Need to Close the Gestalt" - such advice can be heard from well-wishers. But in order to understand what a gestalt is and to correctly use this
concept, you need to abstract yourself from psychotherapy for a while
and turn to the psychology of perception.
In a literal translation from German, Gestalt means "Form, View, Figure," and the derived word "Gestaltung" is "design." Other more or less suitable in meaning Russian analogues - "Integrity", "structure" and "model."
In fact, the "Figure", Gestalt, can be any process - a passion for someone, a quarrel or a business started.
We
remember the unfinished processes better - this phenomenon is called
the "Zeigarnik effect" named after the Soviet psychologist Blumy
Zeigarnik. While
still a student, she noticed that the waiters in the cafe perfectly
remember all the outstanding orders and immediately forget the ones
done. Later,
Zeigarnik conducted a series of experiments that confirmed that
unfulfilled tasks create a certain tension in human memory.
