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.
The essence of it is the normal drive to integrate information into context, gist, gestalt, and meaning.
Cellular coordination, in which macromolecules serve as bit players, functions as a gestalt, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
One distinction concerning cognitive orientation, which claims images are "based on simultaneous and holistic gestalt-perception" (p. 17), requires immediate discussion.
Pictures are in the first instance spatial constructions and therefore we can see a gestalt at the beginning.
Their shaping suggests motion and influences the gestalt perception of the listener.
The listening faculty oscillates between the gestalt perception of the sonic masses and the micro-structural developments within the spectra.
Neurosis is seen as splitting in the formation of gestalts, and anxiety as the organism sensing the struggle towards its creative unification.
Having the benefit of the gestalt view he makes some profound comments.
