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6.1 Different counseling theories place different levels of importance on the therapist's offering of expert interpretations of what the client says during counseling. 1. Contrast Freud's views on therapists making interpretations from the position of "expert" with Fritz Perl’s views on such interpretations. Freud’s view on therapists’ expert interpretations specify that psychoanalytic therapy is to help the client identify self-limiting patterns and heal from past experiences that could still be affecting them currently. He assumes that psychological problems stem from the unconscious state. Fritz Perl’s views are to teach individuals how to be their aware of what they’re experiencing and move them from environmental support to self-support. Fritz assumption is that the client is the reasoning behind the psychological problems experienced. While Freud’s view of human beings is mechanistic, Perl’s had more of a holistic approach. Freud focused on repressed intrapsychic conflicts from childhood and Fritz would examine present situations. 2. What is Fritz's reasoning for holding this particular view? Fritz reasoning for this particular view is that therapists can help their clients become aware of sensations within themselves and their environments so that they can respond fully and reasonably to situations. Also, so that clients do their own engaging and connecting with the present by seeing, feeling, and interpreting rather than waiting for their therapists to provide them with insights and answers. 6.2 What are three specific ways that Fritz or Laura Perl’s personal experiences or personalities may have influenced Gestalt therapy? Be sure to describe each specific experience or personal fact and tell which specific component of Gestalt therapy may have flowed from or been influenced by it. Fritz training as a psychoanalyst, Laura’s background experience in gestalt therapy, and both of them being refugees are all influential factors for the evolution of gestalt therapy. Fritz training in psychoanalysis was the beginning of understanding human psyche and the therapeutic relationship. It places an

emphasis on how a therapist role is to be active and participate, which is one of the key components in gestalt therapy. Laura studied and obtained a PhD degree in gestalt therapy. Her background experience could have been the starting point of learning about human perceptions. Laura’s experience may have most likely led to the “here and now” along with the holistic view of individuals. Fritz and Laura’s experience as refugees during World War II could have been a factor in acknowledging how individuals respond, what contributes to respond and what responsibility they can take to do things differently.

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