Three approaches to psychotherapy

de Frederick S. Perls, Everett L. Shostrom

With a goal similar to Roger's, to help Gloria find her own way, Frederick Perls uses and entirely different approach he calls Gestalt Therapy. The Gestalt technique, he says, is to frustrate the client as a way to draw out the authentic person and to strip away the person's phony roles and games. In this film Perls describes his approach to psychotherapy, demonstrates it in the psychotherapy session with Gloria, and then he comments on his work.