1. Kurt Lewin Methodology Appropriate to Gestalt Therapy
Natalia Kedrova
Moscow Gestalt Institute

2. What is Methodology about?
What is the subject of the research?
Which methods are relevant to this subject?
Which concepts we use to decribe and discuss the results?
Which theory assimilate the results of the research?
What kind of practice will use the results?

3. Gestalt Therapy as It is
Gestalt therapy concerns many different aspects of human beeing in different fields: body, socials, cultural etc
Gestalt therapy deal with creative adjustment in the organism/environment field that are integrative characteristics
Gestalt practice is based on considering the uniqueness of client-therapist contact

4. Gestalt Therapy as It is
Standard methods of evaluation symptoms and behavior patterns are not relevant for research of Gestalt-Therapy
So what we are really able to study is
what is the structure of human suffering
how the suffering changed during therapy
How the therapist participate and support these changes
These will be the subject of the research

5. Kurt Lewin’s Experimental School

6. Kurt Lewin’s Experimental School
K. Lewin studied the field as the dynamic system or tensions. Objects that create the field have positive or negative charge
There is tension between the person and the object in the field. This tension creates quasi-need that tends to discharge
According to these ideas suffering is the tension which is impossible to discharge

7. Kurt Lewin’s Experimental School
Study of field dynamics
Experiments on level of claim
Frustration
Unfinished business
These experiments shows the dynamic of creative adjustment

8. Suggestions: How to Apply K. Lewin Methodology
We can see the dynamic of level of claim and frustration before, during and after gestalt therapy
We can focus the study on the special aspects of therapeutical process in experimental situation