A case of homosexuality. Contribution of Gestalt sub-techniques to Adlerian hermeneutics

Abstract

Among the many similarities between Individual Psychology and Gestalt Psychology is the interpretation of dreams, which, while in Individual Psychology aims to assess the individual's lifestyle, is itself a product of that lifestyle and aims to reinforce it. while in Gestalt it narrates the personal equation on which the patient bases his life, it is the script of his life, which once understood must be unmasked. The difference lies, if anything, in Perls' original way of treating dreams in therapeutic practice: reintegrating all the alienated parts of the self, having the patient interpret them as in a play; in this way, the patient reappropriates, by experiencing them firsthand, those parts of himself that he does not accept and those existential possibilities that he has always rejected. A clinical example follows in which the Gestalt paradigm is used in the context of Adlerian analysis to broaden and enliven the interpretation of individual psychological treatment