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Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book, Productive Thinking , and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology.
[14] [16] Wertheimer's publication of these results in 1912 [17] marks the beginning of Gestalt psychology. [16] In comparison to von Ehrenfels and others who had used the term "gestalt" earlier in various ways, Wertheimer's unique contribution was to insist that the "gestalt" is perceptually primary.
Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy (GTP) is a method of psychotherapy based strictly on Gestalt psychology.Its origins go back to the 1920s when Gestalt psychology founder Max Wertheimer, Kurt Lewin and their colleagues and students started to apply the holistic and systems theoretical Gestalt psychology concepts in the field of psychopathology and clinical psychology.
Max Wertheimer, co-founder of Gestalt psychology; Drew Westen; Michael White, (Founder of narrative therapy) Ken Wilber, transpersonal psychology, then integral psychology; Glenn D. Wilson, personality and sexual behaviour; Richard Wiseman; Władysław Witwicki, one of the fathers of psychology in Poland, the creator of the theory of cratism
Wolfgang Köhler (21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology. During the Nazi regime in Germany , he protested against the dismissal of Jewish professors from universities, as well as the requirement that professors ...
They focused their research on sensory information and memory, and later became the founding fathers of Gestalt psychology. [14] Max Wertheimer is often credited with developing the idea of Gestalt psychology, but they were influenced by Christian von Ehrenfel's idea that a holistic melody is more than a simple combination of various sounds ...
Contributions; Talk; Contents move to ... Max Wertheimer; Psychoanalytic ... The list below includes these, and other, influential schools of thought in psychology:
Max Wertheimer first described this form of apparent movement in his habilitation thesis, published 1912, [2] marking the birth of Gestalt psychology. [3] In a broader sense, particularly if the plural form phi phenomena is used, it applies also to all apparent movements that can be seen if two nearby optical stimuli are presented in alternation.