Gestalt
Appearance
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Gestalt, a German word for form or shape, may refer to:
- Holism, the idea that natural systems and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not as loose collections of parts
Psychology
- Gestalt psychology (also known as "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 (music), theories of Gestalt psychology applied to music
- Gestalt laws of grouping, the principle that humans naturally perceive objects as organized patterns and objects
- Gestaltzerfall, or Gestalt decomposition, a psychological phenomenon of delayed recognition
Arts and media
- Gestalt (album), a 2012 album by The Spill Canvas
- Gestalt (manga), a manga series
- Gestalt intelligence, or group mind, a science fiction plot device
- Gestalt Publishing, an Australian publishing house
- Nier (video game), a 2010 video game released in Japan as NieR: Replicant and NieR: Gestalt
Other uses
- Gestalt (Mac OS), an environment-query function in Mac OS
- Gestalt Practice, a contemporary form of personal exploration and integration