Gestalt Theory

Fritz Perls (1893-1970) developed and popularized Gestalt Therapy, his view of human nature is that clients are manipulative and that they avoid responsibility. Gestalt Therapy helps a person stay in the present rather than to live their life in the past, causing you to focus more on the problem trying to be solved rather than forgetting it. The present in therapeutic terms is know as "Here and Now".
Lets say that I was counseling a client using the Gestalt Theory. My client is a young teenager, about seventeen. …