List five of Zinker’s nine advantages of using creative processes in Gestalt therapy?
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Answers:
1. to expand the person’s repertoire of behavior
2. to create conditions under which the person can see his life as his own creation
3. to stimulate the person’s experiential learning and the evolution of new self concepts from behavioral creations
4. to compete unfinished situations and to overcome blockages in the awareness-contact cycle
5. to integrate cortical understandings with motoric discoveries
6. to discover polarizations which are not in awareness
7. to stimulate the integration of conflictual forces in the personality
8. to dislodge and reintegrate introjects and to generally place “misplaced” feelings, ideas, and actions where they belong in the personality
9. to stimulate circumstances under which the person can feel and act stronger, more competent, more self-supported, more explorative, and actively responsible for him or herself
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