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  • When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has increased the fund from which he may draw for new figural developments. In other words, as the background of his experience becomes more diversified, it also becomes potentially more harmonious with a whole range of happenings.

    Running   Flower   Wine  
    Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
  • We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

    Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
  • A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society.

    Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
  • Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

  • Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

    Gimmicks   Mimicry   Use  
    Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
  • Therapy is too good to be limited to the sick.

    Sick   Therapy  
    Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
  • The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

    Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
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