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Gestalt psychology, ... Reification is the constructive or generative aspect of perception, by which the experienced object of perception contains more explicit ...
Reification (Gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is present. Reification (linguistics), the transformation of a natural-language statement such that actions and events represented by it become quantifiable variables. Reification (Marxism), the consideration of an abstraction of an object as ...
Life. Gurwitsch was born in Vilna on 17 January 1901. His family moved to Danzig in 1905 or 1906 to escape pogroms. He enrolled in the University of Berlin in 1918, where he studied under Carl Stumpf. He subsequently worked with Edmund Husserl in Göttingen, and with Adhémar Gelb [de] and Kurt Goldstein in Frankfurt. [1]
Luchins was a student and staff member of Max Wertheimer, the main originator of Gestalt psychology.After Max Wertheimer fled to the US and started lecturing at the New School for Social Research, Luchins worked as his assistant and became one of his closest collaborators from 1936 till 1942.
Principles of grouping. The principles of grouping (or Gestalt laws of grouping) are a set of principles in psychology, first proposed by Gestalt psychologists to account for the observation that humans naturally perceive objects as organized patterns and objects, a principle known as Prägnanz. Gestalt psychologists argued that these ...
Psychiatry, psychotherapy. Friedrich Salomon Perls (July 8, 1893 – March 14, 1970), better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Perls coined the term "Gestalt therapy" to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the 1940s and 1950s.
Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and focuses on 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 adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation.
Metzger was a student and associate of the founders of the Berlin school of Gestalt theory, Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. Metzger became Max Wertheimer's assistant in Frankfurt/Main in the 1930s and his successor when the Nazis forced Wertheimer out. Early in the 1940s Metzger became chairman at Münster, a position he held ...