Gestalt
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Die Gestalt is a German
word for form or shape
. It is used in English to refer to a concept of 'wholeness'. Gestalt may also refer to:
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
word for form or shape
Shape
The shape of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as colour, content, and material...
. It is used in English to refer to a concept of 'wholeness'. Gestalt may also refer to:
- Gestalt psychologyGestalt psychologyGestalt psychology or gestaltism is a theory of mind and brain of the Berlin School; the operational principle of gestalt psychology is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies...
(or Gestalt theory), a theory of mind and brain, describing the Gestalt effect. - Gestalt theoretical psychotherapyGestalt Theoretical PsychotherapyGestalt theoretical psychotherapy is a method of psychotherapy based strictly on Gestalt psychology. It was developed by the German Gestalt psychologist and psychotherapist Hans-Jürgen P...
, a method of psychotherapy based on Gestalt psychology - Gestalt therapyGestalt therapyGestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility, and that focuses upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating...
, a form of psychotherapy built on the experiential ideal of "here and now" and relationships with others and the world. - Gestalt (Mac OS)Gestalt (Mac OS)Gestalt was the name of a system call introduced into the Apple Macintosh operating system System Software 6.0.4 in 1989 to allow applications to dynamically query what capabilities were present in the running system configuration....
, an environment-query function in Mac OS. - Gestalt (manga)Gestalt (manga)is an 8-volume fantasy manga series by Yun Kōga and published by Square Enix and later by Ichijinsha that later spawned a two episode OVA series.-Plot:...
, an anime, manga, and OVA series