ABSTRACT
The field concept in the gestalt approach has its roots in natural science, which is where Kurt Lewin acquired it, from the studies of electromagnetic fields and time in the framework of relativity theory. In the broadest sense of the word, the field can be said to involve everything that exists and everything that has the potential to exist in the past, present, and future. The psychological field corresponds to the part of the total field that Lewin called the person's "life space": those elements of the field that exists in the person's phenomenology. The theoretical limitation in restricting the field concept to the phenomenological field is that it produces an unnecessary dichotomy between psychology and other social sciences and the natural sciences, including neuroscience. In accordance with the shape of the quadrant model, the four basic perspectives may be labelled, respectively, upper-right perspective (UR), upper-left perspective (UL), lower-right perspective (LR) or lower-left perspective (LL).
