Key points: A Gestalt is a pattern, a configuration, a figure and a background.Gestalt psychology describes how our perceptions is organised in figure/ground pairs

Homeostasis is the concept of all living being’s automatic search for and maintenance of inner and outer equilibrium.

The holistic doctrine states that the human being is a unified organism, that all aspects are connected, and that the whole is more than the sum of the parts.

The hot chair technique. Developed by Jacob Moreno in psychodrama, but made famous by Perls. Building on the gestalt psychology of figure / ground, the client is asked to have an imagined encounter with whatever person or aspect he has an unfinished business, with. Here and now. Perls very much emphasises the concept of HERE AND NOW.

Even if the material worked with seemingly is from the past, the emotional releases and transformations seen in the hot chair are acted out in the now

Gestalt therapy and dreams: Integration. Every image in the dream, is an alienated portion of the self