ABSTRACT
Object Relations Gestalt Therapy (ORGT) evolved from the integration of concepts from British Object Relations into Gestalt-therapy. ORGT believes that psychological health comes not only from creative adjustment in the immediacy of the felt sense but from a tendency for the Self to embrace its own continuity and to establish in itself an irreversible felt sense of otherness. Relational psychotherapy is founded on K. Lewin’s field theory, as contained in in F. S. Perls, R. Hefferline, and P. Goodman. The focus of ORGT is to assert that the normal role of the psychophysiological organism is to develop the Self. At birth, the individual is a unitary psychophysiological organism, with cognitive, affective, and sensori-motor potential that can evolve in a favourable human environment. Personality disordered clients are often unable to discriminate between experiences in different fields. ORGT invites the practitioner to give up trying to establish oversimplified links between specific developmental issues and equally specific personality disorders.
