Interpersonal Relationships In Gestalt Therapy

Dialogue is a manifestation of the existential perspective on relationship. The manufacturing industry of the relationship is contact. Contact let people to grow and form identities. Contact divided into “me” and “not me”. When maintaining a self-identity, it is helping to interact with “not me”.
Gestalt therapy helps clients their own support for desired contact (Perls, 2001). Then, therapeutic relationship in gestalt therapy emphasises four characteristic of dialogue: Inclusion, Presence, Commitment to dialogue, Dialogue is lived.
Inclusion: It put oneself into the experience which is no judging, analysing and interpreting. At the same time also retain the sense of one’s separate and autonomous presence. This is also an existential and interpersonal

It is also something happens, arises from the communication between people. This is “allowing” contact, not “making” contact.
Dialogue is lived: The interaction of participants. It is not the “talked about”, it is something done. Then, the meaning of “lived” is excitement and immediacy of doing. The manner of the dialogue including dancing, words, singing and the others which expresses the energy or power between the participants. Gestalt therapy also expends the boundaries, for example, indication or explanation of experience by nonverbal expressions, but ethnics and therapeutic task limited in the communication.
Besides, the other concepts of gestalt therapy which inter-communication and between the therapist and client are Person-Centred Awareness, Respect, Emphasis on Experience, Creative Experiment and Discovery, Social Responsibility and Relationship.
Person-Centred Awareness focus on future, imagining it and discrete from the present and past are necessary. This process is not to discover the unconscious, rather following an individual’s

Gestalt therapist usually focus on where the energy is in the body, how it need and create a blockage (Corey, 2005, p. 4). Blockage energy is a resistance. Gestalt therapy is discovering and releasing the blockages which inhibiting awareness.
Growth Disorders is also a concept of gestalt therapy. Growth disorders include the emotional problem. It will happen in the people who lack of awareness and reject to interact with their environment or each other. Therefore, those kind of people will lose the ability to handle with the problem, changing in their life and instead uses the way of defensive manner to cope it
In addition, Holism. Whole person is interested by gestalt therapists, they are not divided into level or value on a individual’s aspect. Gestalt practice involve client’s thought, behaviours, dreams, memories, body and feelings. It is also focus on figure and ground. Figure is the individual’s experiences that are most important at any moment. Then, ground means the client’s presentation that always unconscious. According to the background discover the surface which physical gesture, tone of voice, behaviours and other nonverbal content. Gestalt therapists consider as “attending to the obvious” while paying attention about the method which is combine the parts together, how the individual communicates with environment and