ABSTRACT
Basic Gestalt theory of self gives the function of assimilating a unified experience of self to the personality aspect, which is described in Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman (1994) as 'essentially a verbal replica of self'. Consciousness emerges when this primordial story, the story of an object causally changing the state of the body, can be told using the universal nonverbal vocabulary of body signals. This chapter talks about three boundaries, namely, organism-environment, self-other, and personality. Ruella Frank has done a lot of work on how early patterns of movement, reaching, crawling, walking, are laid down in the body in a sequential way to form how our body is now. There will be a number of different stable social environments and they all have a similar sense of stability, familiarity, a sense of comfortableness, but they are all different. One of the things about therapy is that it puts us in the refugee situation, if one like.
