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Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences

Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Francesetti, Gianni
Roubal, Jan

Abstract / Description

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.

Keyword(s)

Gestalt therapy depression grief psychopathology self-functions

Persistent Identifier

Date of first publication

2020-10

Journal title

Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft

Volume

10

Issue

2

Page numbers

39–45

Publisher

Psychosozial-Verlag

Publication status

publishedVersion

Review status

reviewed

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Citation

Francesetti, G. & Roubal, J. (2020). Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 10(2), 39-45. https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2020-2-39
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Francesetti, Gianni
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Roubal, Jan
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2024-07-11T13:32:39Z
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    2024-07-11T13:32:39Z
  • Date of first publication
    2020-10
  • Abstract / Description
    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.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    reviewed
  • Citation
    Francesetti, G. & Roubal, J. (2020). Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 10(2), 39-45. https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2020-2-39
  • ISSN
    1664-9583
  • ISSN
    1664-9591
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/10526
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.15089
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    Psychosozial-Verlag
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2020-2-39
  • Keyword(s)
    Gestalt therapy
    en_US
  • Keyword(s)
    depression
    en_US
  • Keyword(s)
    grief
    en_US
  • Keyword(s)
    psychopathology
    en_US
  • Keyword(s)
    self-functions
    en_US
  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences
    en_US
  • Alternative title
    Gestalt Therapy Approach to Depressive Experiences
    de_DE
  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    2
  • Journal title
    Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft
  • Page numbers
    39–45
  • Volume
    10
  • Visible tag(s)
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