Gestalt
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Gestalt is a German word that can be translated into English in various ways:
- as shape, form, guise or likeness (e.g., in Menschengestalt: in human form)
- as figure or as a synonym for person (e.g., eine dunkle Gestalt: a sinister figure)
Gestalt may also refer to:
- Gestalt psychology (or Gestalt theory), a theory of mind and brain, describing the Gestalt effect.
- Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, a method of psychotherapy based on Gestalt psychology.
- Gestalt therapy, a form of psychotherapy built on the experiential ideal of "here and now" and relationships with others and the world.
- Gestalt (Mac OS), an environment-query function in Mac OS.
- An anime manga and OVA series: Gestalt (manga).
