“I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations
and you are not in this world to live up to mine (Fritz Perls, 1969, in Gladding, 2000)."
This is very close to the theory of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and what the Philosopher Martin Buber defined as a type of existentialism (I – Thu relationship/dialectical philosophy).
Gestalt therapy has been influenced by similar phenomenological standpoints like this of Buber to prove that a healthy visual perception informs about the phenomenological reality.
Awesome Gestalt Psychotherapy techniques (https://lnkd.in/efHgTv3). Many of them can be found in the AI Psychotherapy model as it is presented in "The Colors of the Sunrise" also lending from the Gestalt principles of perception.
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