The use of gestalt therapy to re-write life script

• Main Author: Hitge, Erika
• Other Authors: Van Wyk, C. (Mrs.)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Re-writing; Life script; Life position; Gestalt Therapy; Contact Boundary Disturbances; Awareness; Theory of Change; The I-Thou Relation; Sense of Self and Self-Concept; Self-Regulation; 616.89143; Gestalt therapy; Boundaries > Psychological aspects; Self-perception; Change (Psychology); Transactional analysis; Schemas (Psychology)
• Online Access: Hitge, Erika (2009) The use of gestalt therapy to re-write life script, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1664>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1664

The aim of this research was to determine how Gestalt Therapy could be utilised to re-write life script. Transactional Analysis terminology was translated into Gestalt Therapy, especially the terms life script, life position and re-writing in the literature study. Gestalt Therapy concepts of importance for the research were also discussed in the literature study. An empirical study was conducted, involving one respondent, for whom Gestalt Therapy sessions were provided with the aim of determining how life script could be re-written through such intervention. Gestalt Therapy concepts and life script concepts were identified during the therapy process. A re-written life script was formulated by the researcher corresponding with the level of functioning of the respondent during therapy and in relation to the respondent's life position. The researcher deducts from the entire study, but especially from the empirical study that life script can be re-written by means of utilising Gestalt Therapy. === Social Work === M. Diac. (Play Therapy)