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Word: gestalt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuum of thought and experience among the young which links together the New Left sociology of Mills, the Freudian Marxism of Herbert Marcuse, the Gestalt-therapy anarchism of Paul Goodman, the apocalyptic body mysticism of Norman Brown, the Zen-based psychotherapy of Alan Watts, and finally Timothy Leary's impenetrably occult narcissism...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: From the Shelf The Making of a Counter Culture | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

From there, said J. E. Thomas, Senior Advisor to Freshmen, "it's almost a gestalt process. We search the files for a guy whose interests are similar but not identical so there can be some similarity of interests in the midst of the diversity that is characteristic of the typical Harvard class...

Author: By Lawrence K. Bakst, | Title: 'I Want One Who Doesn't Smoke' | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...Islanders became The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), is a careful tailor of dialogue and characterization. But by laboriously presenting stop-action, caseworker-like descriptions of his characters' psychological past, he unfortunately produces a general air more clinical than criminal, a climax that is more Gestalt than gothic, a final effect that evokes a quiet Oh, yes, instead of a stricken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Villain as Victim | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...which Frankl is interested is an individual's own, and is unique to his situation at any given moment. It is, he insists, something that each man must find for himself, through his conscience. When he does so, he is likely to find that it has a Gestalt quality -the whole of an experience is, in some indefinable way, greater than the sum of its parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: Meaning in Life | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

After earning his doctorate, Allport spent three years studying in Germany and England. He was one of the first non-German popularizers of the theories of Gestalt psychology, which suggests that concepts are recorded by the mind as wholes, not as the sum of their component elements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allport, 69, Dies; Led in Psychology | 10/10/1967 | See Source »

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