Editing Gestalt psychology (section)

===Gestalt therapy===
Gestalt psychology differs from [[Gestalt therapy]], which is only peripherally linked to Gestalt psychology. The founders of Gestalt therapy, [[Fritz Perls|Fritz]] and [[Laura Perls]], had worked with [[Kurt Goldstein]], a neurologist who had applied principles of Gestalt psychology to the functioning of the organism. Laura Perls had been a Gestalt psychologist before she became a psychoanalyst and before she began developing Gestalt therapy together with Fritz Perls.<ref>{{cite book | last=Bocian | first=B. | title=Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893–1933: Expressionism – Psychoanalysis – Judaism | publisher=EHP – Edition Humanistische Psychology | year=2010 | isbn=978-3-89797-068-7 | page=190}}</ref> The extent to which Gestalt psychology influenced Gestalt therapy is disputed. On one hand, Laura Perls preferred not to use the term "Gestalt" to name the emerging new therapy, because she thought that the Gestalt psychologists would object to it;<ref>Joe Wysong/Edward Rosenfeld (eds): ''An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy'', Highland, New York 1982, The Gestalt Journal Press, p. 12.</ref> on the other hand, Fritz and Laura Perls clearly adopted some of Goldstein's work.<ref>{{Cite journal|first=Allen R. |last=Barlow |title=Gestalt—Antecedent Influence or Historical Accident|url=https://www.gestalt.org/barlow.htm|access-date=2023-01-02|journal=The Gestalt Journal |volume=4 |number=2 |date=Fall 1981}}</ref> 

[[Mary Henle]] noted in her presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association: "What Perls has done has been to take a few terms from Gestalt psychology, stretch their meaning beyond recognition, mix them with notions—often unclear and often incompatible—from the depth psychologies, existentialism, and common sense, and he has called the whole mixture gestalt therapy. His work has no substantive relation to scientific Gestalt psychology. To use his own language, Fritz Perls has done 'his thing'; whatever it is, it is ''not'' Gestalt psychology."<ref>Mary Henle 1975: [https://gestalttheory.net/archive/henle.html ''Gestalt Psychology and Gestalt Therapy''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205051647/https://www.gestalttheory.net/archive/henle.html |date=5 February 2012 }}; Presidential Address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September 1975. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, pp 23–32.</ref>

One form of psychotherapy that, unlike Gestalt therapy, is actually consistently based on Gestalt psychology is [[Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy]].