СРАМ – ГЕШТАЛТ ПРИСТАП: ТЕОРИЈА, МЕТОДОЛОГИЈА И ПРАКТИЧНИ ИМПЛИКАЦИИ

Abstract

Shame as an important clinical and psychological issue, will be reviewed throughout
the lens of the Gestalt theory and methodology, at the same time giving implications for
psychotherapy work and interventions. Based on what is known Gestalt therapy theory
has long addressed the phenomenon of shame, although often without mentioning shame
by its name.
In the heart of the Gestalt model is the field representation of experience that includes
the experience of both oneself and one’s environment as a relational whole, the interactional
processes between self and others. As such, shame is seen as a rupture of support
in the field and a disorganization of the self-process. To arrive at an understanding of how
the phenomenon of shame operates, it is necessary to utilize the concept of id, ego and
personality functions of the self and the concepts of interruptions to contact, specifically
introjection, retroflection and confluence. All of this integrated within the theory of contact
and Gestalt formation and fixation.
This understanding of shame dynamics is essential for the deconstruction of shame
in the therapy room, while working with individual and relational processes. It is also of
great importance not to abandon the core pillars of Gestalt such as organismic self-regulation,
the client’s phenomenological experience, the constant interaction between the
field and the self, all of this fitted in the form of I- Thou dialog.