Gestalt essentials: the meaning of ‘gestalt’

One of the interesting things about gestalt as a field of practice and human enquiry is the difficulty its practitioners have in explaining what the word ‘gestalt’ means. Most attempts to explain the meaning of the word make the mistake of translating from German to English. I say this is a mistake because, invariably, this [...]

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The psychopathology of boredom

Psychopathology is a great word. It has three parts: ‘psyche’ (the soul), ‘pathos’ (suffering), and the suffix ‘ology’ (the study of). If you’re ever writing about something in the context of its impact on human suffering, you can’t go far wrong by dropping in psychopathology (incidentally, given those meanings, that makes the meaning of ‘psychopath’ [...]

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