Psicoteràpia GESTALT i esquizofrènia: Una revisió narrativa

Abstract

Gestalt psychotherapy was mainly developed by Frederick S. Perls, counting on the collaboration of Laura Perls and Paul Goodman, and it is based on the Phenomenological school. Its theoretical basis was established in Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality, published in 1951. From the 70s, on its competences and demands have been improved so that Gestalt psychotherapy is more accepted by the scientific community. Gestalt therapy is prepared to be used to treat psychopathologies (Francessetti & Gecele, 2014) in the scientific world and it has its own explanation and application method to treat them. Gestalt Therapy is enabled to be used in the clinical world to treat psychopathologies(Francessetti & Gecele, 2014) and has its own explanation and method of application to treat them. There are psychopathologies called severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, that are more difficult to explain and treat. This narrative review aims to identify whether Gestalt psychotherapy explains schizophrenia and how this applies to this type of patient and as a part of the specific goals it has to explain schizophrenia from the point of view of Gestalt therapy and verify the evidence in the research carried out already about the use of this Gestalt therapy on schizophrenia. In order to achieve the goal, a search has been carried out for 5 months in databases and other sources, following inclusion and exclusion criteria. The inclusion ones are the language (Spanish or English), published between the years 1998 and 2019, treat on Gestalt psychotherapy and schizophrenia, etc. At the end, there are 10 documents that respond the research questions about the explanation, the treatment and the possible efficacy of this treatment on this major mental disorder.