Responses of Doctoral Students to a Course on Gestalt Therapy

Forty-eight doctoral psychology students responded to questions about their reactions to the theory and practice of Gestalt therapy. These students had just completed a 12-week course on Gestalt therapy. The authors were particularly curious about the degree to which the fundamentals of Gestalt therapy appealed to students in a program and an era that emphasizes brief therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy models. Students' reactions to the course were uniformly positive. All but one respondent stated that they would use parts of their Gestalt therapy training from this course in their future work.