Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

Gestalt

Fritz Perls developed the Gestalt approach to psychotherapy. Although some have regarded it as a ‘therapy-lite’ approach, it helps many recognize personal limitations and their legitimate prospects for freedom through change.

Geworfenheit

The German word means 'thrown down' and was used by Heidegger to describe the accidental nature of human existence in a world that has not yet been made our own by conscious choce.

Grief

Grief may be defined, following John Bowlby, as the physical, emotional, somatic, cognitive and spiritual response to actual or threatened loss of a person, thing or place to which we are emotionally attached.

Grounded

This American terminology refers to the developed sense of proprioceptive reality. This has significant implications in terms of personal freedom.

Group Therapy

Group therapy refers to a wide range of therapy in which individual clients participate in the work of others in group meetings. The power of the group includes, but is not limited to the phenomenon that whenever a group gathers, the unconscious mind of the group emerges more powerfully than in most individual sessions. Thus, the work can be conducted on a deeper level.

Guilt

Guilt is both a religious concept and a fundamental issue in psychotherapy within the psychodynamic tradition.