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social science subjects > social research > philosophy and the social sciences > philosophy and psychology > gestalt psychology

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gestalt psychology  

Definition

  • Gestalt psychology arose in Germany in the 1930s out of dissatisfaction both with behavioural psychology and psychoanalysis. Its main protagonists were the psychologists Wertheimer, Koffka and Köhler, who were inspired by phenomenology. [Source: Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling; Gestalt Psychology]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CH8TRLGJ-G

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