Founder of Gestalt Psychotherapy; researcher on perception; concepts of man-in-the-world is a gestalt, psychological life is perceptive life, changing perception changes behavior, to perceive is to know, the human being is a possibility of relationship
Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos (born August 18, 1942) is a Brazilianpsychologist[1][2] who founded Gestalt Psychotherapy, a psychotherapeutic theory based on Gestalt Psychology.[3] From gestalt and phenomenology she developed a clinical practice and a theory that supports it, breaking with psychoanalytic concepts that influence most other approaches to clinical psychology, even gestalt approaches.[4][5]
Gestalt Psychotherapy, a term coined by Campos to name her theory, is different from Gestalt Therapy (developed by Fritz Perls).[6][7][8] The difference is in the methodology as well as in the theoretical basis, especially regarding the unconscious,[i] a concept accepted by F. Perls and denied by V. Campos.[9] The clinical practice is individual and based on dialogue between psychotherapist and client.[10] Her eleven books expose the development of the theory's concepts, such as: to perceive is to know;[11][12] psychological life is perceptive life;[13][ii][iii] the human being is a possibility of relationship;[iv] non-acceptance; autoreferencing[14] etc.
^“Gestalt-Terapeutas do Brasil: formação e identidade” [Gestalt Therapists of Brazil: Formation and Identity] PhD thesis, University of Brasilia Unb, 2019, pages 19 to 21 (in Portuguese). “Gestalt Psychotherapy, however, is a psychotherapeutic proposal developed on Brazilian soil by the psychologist Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos who disagrees with the reading of Gestalt Psychology contained in Gestalt Therapy.”
^"60 Anos da Regulamentação da Psicologia no Brasil" ["60 Years of Psychology Regulation in Brazil"]. CFP & CRP Symposium. Salvador, Bahia, 2 August 2022. (in Portuguese). "The Federal Council of Psychology and the Regional Council of Psychology award a Diploma to Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos for her pioneering role in psychology in Brazil and for her 6 decades of work as a psychologist."
^Malin, Betty (March 2010). "Por que Fisicalismo?" [Why physicalism?]. Revista Litteris (in Portuguese). 4. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. ISSN1983-7429. the gestalt psychologist Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos, creator of Gestalt Psychotherapy
^Calbo, Iza (2002). "À Luz da Percepção" [In the Light of Perception]. Jornal A Tarde (in Portuguese). Retrieved March 27, 2023. Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos decided to develop her own theory because she disagreed with the explanation of human behavior from the conception of the unconscious.
^Campos, Vera Felicidade de Almeida. (1972). PsicoterapiaGestaltista Conceituações (Gestalt Psychotherapy – Conceptualizations), Introduction, page 15, Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese) – also available as eBook ISBN 9788595130920
^Campos, Vera Felicidade de Almeida. (1999) Desespero e Maldade – Estudos Perceptivos (Despair and Evil – Perceptive Studies), chapter: Estruturação do Processo Perceptivo (Structuring the Perceptual Process), p. 35, Salvador. (in Portuguese) ISBN 8590118711
^Lobo, Sandro (1999). "Portas da Percepção" [Doors of Perception]. Correio da Bahia (in Portuguese). Retrieved March 27, 2023 – via verafelicidade.com.
^Campos. (2012) [2] p. 47 – "Psychological life is perceptive life, consequently psychological problems are perceptive distortions..."
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