ABSTRACT
The philosophy of holism integrates well with gestalt as both see wholes as being in a constant state of flux, continually developing and evolving, rather than being static entities. ‘The evolution of universe, is nothing but record of this whole-making activity in its progressive development’. A well-known maxim that originates from gestalt’s integration of holism into its approach is that the whole is different from and greater than the sum of its parts. This often-misunderstood phrase refers to unity of human beings as complete organisms, and to the unity of human beings and our entire environment. The founders of gestalt aimed to counter the artificial splits created between mind and body by adopting a holistic approach working towards the integration of the false dichotomising of the individual and their situation. Fritz Perls summed this up thus: people are split up into bits and pieces and its no use to analyse these bits and pieces and cut them up still more.
