Gestalt psychology

English

Alternative forms

• gestalt psychology

Noun

Gestalt psychology (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A school of psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and Germany as a theory of perception, that was a rejection of basic principles of Wilhelm Wundt's and Edward Titchener's elementalist and structuralist psychology.

Synonyms

• gestaltism

Related terms

• Gestalt therapy