0 something such as a structure or experience that, when considered as a whole, has qualities that are more than the total of all its parts:
1 considering or treating what a person experiences and believes as a whole and separate thing:
In gestalt psychology and gestalt psychotherapy, people's thoughts and emotions are seen as complex wholes.
In the comic and cartoon mythoses, however, most gestalts have one default transformation.
If a soap bubble has any form of primal consciousness, that protoconsciousness would be of an elastic spherical form under stress, as a unitary gestalt.
In 20th century psychology, the gestalt psychologists emphasized that the whole could be greater than the sum of its parts.
As with all ideal types, the power of the differentiation rests less with its discrimination of detail and more with its unity, or gestalt.
In fact, it could be any gestalt associated either with a real source, in acousmatic music, or with similar established gestalts elsewhere in the work.
The goal of this commentary is to bring to light the similarities between normal aging and schizophrenia regarding inefficient higher-level integrative or gestalt-like perception.
Here the gestalt psychologists' notions of ®gure and ground are relevant.
Having the benefit of the gestalt view he makes some profound comments.
