Humor in Gestalt Psychotherapy Two Article Reviews

TWO JOURNAL ARTICLES - CRITIQUE The two journal articles which I critique have in common the construct of humor (spelled in both international journals as humour). I will examine humor in the first article as a construct. It is utilized as a tool, as a component of therapy but I will examine the very basic underlying nature of humor as a construct and as a phenomenon that can be appropriately and adequately utilized in a gestalt modality (particularly tied to existing gestalt therapy tools). In the second article I will examine the actual use of humor – the specific functioning of humor as a therapeutic tool or therapeutic mechanism within the psychoanalytical modality. In brief, in the first article I critique the use of humor as a†¦show more content†¦She notes that humor is in fact experiential and process, and that sense â€Å"refers to the ability to feel or appreciate something; the ability to be aware comments to the fore, (Jacobs, 2009). Just a couple sentences following that the author sta tes, awareness, characterized by contact, sensing, excitement and gestalt formation is considered a primary therapeutic mechanism, (Yontef, 1989; cited by Jacobs). As the research design is articulated this is about as close as the author gets to delineating an operational definition that connects the awareness associated with sense of humor with the awareness which a gestalt therapist would associate with better deflection mechanisms and the ability to better handle boundary disturbances. My primary concern with the structure of this research lies with the very initial transition from the review of literature to the initial implementation of the research methodology and design, and with the somewhat inadequate operational definition of the construct of humor (as it relates to gestalt modality) and to a failure to more implicitly or directly connect humor and sense of awareness (whether through literature citations or methodology). If the author assumes to delineate a relationship between humor and the efficacy of gestalt therapy that incorporates humor, it is absolutely necessary for an adequate, appropriate definition and a very well delineat ed connectionShow MoreRelatedMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagestranslates by pigeon-holing (p. 35). 1990 Preface This book is divided into four sections, and it groups ten chapters corresponding to twelve previously published articles. The disparity between ten and twelve is caused by the fact that Chapter 5 was condensed out of three separate articles. As the title indicates, the articles included in this volume have been selected exclusively from the author s writings on cinematographic problems.* Since this is, therefore, a collection, I have not triedRead MoreChange Management49917 Words   |  200 Pagespower, and influence, to resist and ultimately block the change. If consensus fails then one 14 MBA –H4010 Organisational Development And Change has little alternative but to move on to explicit and implicit coercion. Somewhere in between the two extremes, the management may attempt to manipulate events in an effort to sidestep sources of resistance. For example, they may play interested parties off against each other or create galvanizing crisis to divert attention. The techniques need not