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Gestalt Psychology vs Gestalt Therapy: What Is the Difference?
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Gestalt Psychology vs Gestalt Therapy: What Is the Difference?

🎧 Audio: AI voice reading this article. Written by Alex.

Gestalt psychology and Gestalt therapy share a name and some ideas, but they are different projects. How to tell them apart, and why shared words are not proof.

Gestalt psychology investigates how experience is organised, including perception. Gestalt therapy is an approach to therapeutic work with a person’s lived experience. The first is not another kind of session you can book, and the second is not a course in optical illusions.

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