Word: gestalt
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
Listen to the Body. As practiced at Esalen (named after an extinct Indian tribe), sensitivity training draws upon elements of the inner-directed meditation of Eastern religions and the interaction emphasis of Gestalt psychology. On the theory that modern urban man smothers his feelings under layers of intellectual abstractions and thus loses his sense of wholeness, Esalen President Michael Murphy, 37, a Stanford psychology graduate, also accents emotional release and an awareness of the body. "We have to learn to listen to our bodies if we are ever to enrich and expand our life of feeling," he says...