Recently I read In and Out the Garbage Pail. It’s an unconventional autobiography by Fritz Perls (the father of Gestalt therapy) where he takes the reader on a raw, stream-of-consciousness journey through his life and the development of Gestalt therapy. The book is both a story about his personal growth and a space for him to share his ideas. It is like a mix of a self-therapy session and a memoir – a real hodgepodge. 🙂
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Stillness Speaks overview
While buying some groceries during this weekend, I noticed this book and as I quickly skimmed through it, I knew it was worth buying it.
In this blog post, I’ll include parts of the book that I found relatable.
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Today, I attended a workshop event at the Humans of Gestalt conference, called Just Another Human Being (the metamorphosis of the psychotherapist).
I’d done some “self-gestalt” exercises in the past, but this experience actually involved real people, so it was new.
In this blog post, I will share my experience attending the event.
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A coworker recommended this 1976 book to me, and it turned out to be an amazing read! It’s short and compact, and I finished it in a few sittings. While I was already familiar with most of the ideas, I was impressed by how simply (and honestly) they were presented. I guess the author applied the concepts in the writing itself 🙂
In this blog post, I’ll share some snippets and key highlights that stood out to me.
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As part of my psychological studies, I have written many seminar papers and consumed a lot of relevant content. The learning process was:
- Study materials. Also, consume additional info regarding the subject from a different source (e.g. YouTube, books)
- Take raw notes
- Iterate on the notes to make more sense/easy to read and grasp, s.t. when I read it in a week (or later) for spaced repetition, it makes sense and I can easily recite
- Construct questions based on notes (ChatGPT can help here) and ask self those questions without looking at the notes
- While studying psychological concepts, try to apply them (e.g. how is X motivated, what is in their procedural/semantic memory, what can we conclude about the person, etc.)
One of the content mediums was YouTube, more concretely, Psychology Crash Course. It contains 40 videos, each with an average duration of 10 minutes. These videos explain some of the fundamental concepts in psychology. In addition to that playlist, I also found the book “Psychology: A Complete Introduction” by Sandi Mann to be good supplementary material.
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