Gestalt psychology, school of psychology founded in the 20th century that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. That is, the attributes of the whole are not deducible from analysis of the parts in isolation.

Gestalt Psychology The Gestalt psychologists objected to the idea that experience could be analysed in terms of elemental parts. Gestalt psychology had a big influence in the areas of visual perception, where several principles were devised to account for perceptual organisation, and problem solving.

Gestalt therapy continues to influence many areas of our lives. Its emphasis on a holistic approach plays an important role in cognitive psychology, perception, and social psychology, among other fields.

Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes. The Gestalt principles of similarity, proximity, continuity, and common fate. These “laws” suggest how our brains prefer to group stimulus elements together to form a percept (Gestalt).

One of the main contributions of Gestalt psychology is Gestalt therapy which focuses on helping an individual understand their internal self and the difference of what they experience and interpretation of events.

The main principles of the Gestalt Theory in Learning are:

1. Teachers should encourage their students to discover the relationship of the elements that make up a problem.
2. Incongruities, gaps, or disturbances are essential stimuli in the learning process.
3. Educational instruction should be based on the Laws of Organization.

The gestalt therapy is established on a humanistic analysis of individuals in a holistic approach while, Carl Roger’s person-centred therapy refers to a psychological counselling and therapeutic approach that emphasises on the incomparability of the clients’ experiences and howtheir psychological imbalances can be …

Christian von Ehrenfels

Law of Common Fate