Hot chair
The hot chair is a psychotherapeutic technique developed by the Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls . The therapist works within the framework of group psychotherapy with a single group member who is assigned a special place in order to move into the center of attention.
Working method
The hot chair does not really have to be a chair, but primarily describes the role of the group member who is ready to be the focus of the group and the therapist's attention. In the 1950s and 1960s, the hot seat was next to Perls; later a chair was often placed in the middle of the group and people often worked lying down, standing or moving around the room. The technology got its name because many people found it exciting and “hot” to show themselves to the group next to Perls with their immediate and often unconscious thoughts , fantasies , emotions , physical gestures and postures .
effect
According to Perls, with this technique the group acts like a Greek choir or resonance body that supports the therapeutic process. The other group members benefit from the individual work in the group by identifying with the experience and the insights of the person in the hot seat and thereby also learning for their own life.
In training groups for therapists, the prospective therapists also learn through identification with the therapist ( learning through observation ).
Modifications
The hot chair technique was often borrowed from other forms of psychotherapy from gestalt therapy and its content can vary depending on the therapy method and therapy goal.
For example, the group is actively involved in the therapeutic process in that the participant goes to the middle and presents himself and his topic there, and then all participants share their feelings and thoughts about it. Another form of group dynamics are feedback rounds , in which a participant wants feedback on their behavior.
Pedagogical elements were introduced by Howard W. Polsky and have been implemented in the Glen Mills Schools since 1975 . A confrontational variant of the technique is used in prison re-education, anti-aggressiveness training and coolness training.
Individual evidence
- ↑ L. Hartmann-Kottek, U. Strümpfel Gestalt therapy. Textbook, Springer-Verlag (2012) ISBN 3-642-28193-1 in Googlebooks
- ↑ Stefan Blankertz u. Erhard Doubrawa: Lexicon of Gestalt therapy , here article "Gestalt group therapy", Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 978-3-7795-0018-6
- ^ Reimer, Christian, Rüger, Ulrich and Hagehülsmann, Heinrich: Psychodynamische Psychotherapien: Textbook of depth psychologically oriented psychotherapies, Springer, 2003, ISBN 9783540000556 preview in books.google.de
- ↑ Maes, Eric: Confrontational pedagogy: goals, methods and problems of a new approach in youth and criminal assistance, Grin-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 9783638704472 Text of the master's thesis as .pdf
- ↑ Annette Denz & H.-P. Schmoll-Flockerzie: Anti-Aggression and Coolness Training®: A training to reduce violence (PowerPoint; 299 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Institute for Confrontational Education)
