GEŠTALT TERAPEUT U VIRTUELNOJ I TERAPIJI LICEM U LICE
GESTALT THERAPIST IN AN ONLINE AND FACE TO FACE SESSION

Summary/Abstract: This work is a short presentation of a qualitative research which is an attempt to answer the question what are the resemblances and differences in work of a gestalt psychotherapist who works face to face or by the internet connection. The research is conducted at the sample which is intentional and consists of three experienced gestalt therapists with perennial practice in working with clients. By working on their self- awareness in personal therapy and during the education they are trained for introspection, consciousness of themselves and the analysis of their own phenomenological experiences. Data are collected by the method of semi-structured interview, and the analysis was directed towards seclusion of specifics, similarities and differences in therapeutic session by the way of internet connection and at the face to face therapeutic session. Analysis of obtained data is done by interpretative phenomenological analysis. Ethical context of 27 such way of work is something that has to be taken care of in further research, as well as individual analysis of all the aspects of a gestalt approach in working by the way of internet connection: the experience of a field, the quality of a contact, the experience of a client, diagnostics and the experience of a role of a therapist. The results of this research in the experience of a therapist out of the sample show that we cannot talk about original gestalt therapy in working by the internet connection, but of gestalt orientation and the direction in working which is adapted to aspects of different kind of field in virtual reality.

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