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gestalt adjective

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Definition

considering or treating what a person experiences and believes as a whole and separate thing
In gestalt psychology and gestalt psychotherapy, people's thoughts and emotions are seen as complex wholes.

(Definition of gestalt adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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