gestaltnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ɡəˈʃtælt/us/ɡəˈʃtɑːlt/specializedsomething such as a structure or experience that, when considered as a whole, has qualities that are more than the total of all its parts:
This new biography is the first to consider fully the writer's gestalt.
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
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gestaltadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ɡəˈʃtælt/us/ɡəˈʃtɑːlt/specializedconsidering or treating what a person experiences and believes as a whole and separate thing:
In gestalt psychology and gestalt psychotherapy, people's thoughts and emotions are seen as complex wholes.
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- cognitive psychology
- commit
- committal
- Freudian
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- shock therapy
- shrink
- subliminal
- superego
- trance
- transference
- word association
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