Become an expert in the Gestalt Model thanks to this TECH program"

The power of the mind over the body has the potential to cause a person to suffer from psychosomatic illness. An intense emotional situation in negative terms can trigger an imbalance between the physical and psychological parts, resulting in lowered defenses. Consequently, patients are more vulnerable to external agents.

This situation requires that people have the appropriate tools to develop a correct personal growth and focus on the here and now, instead of their worries. Gestalt Therapy is positioned as the perfect technique for this, focused on the integration of behaviors, thoughts and emotions of patients to predispose them to their mental recovery. Undoubtedly, this way of dealing with psychosomatic ailments needs more and more psychologists specialized in it, something to which this TECH program provides an answer.

In this way, students of the Intervention in Psychosomatic Disorders Using Gestalt in Intervention in Psychosomatic Disorders Using Gestalt will specialize in techniques that make the patient focus on living their reality and increase their personal confidence, leaving the pain behind. To this end, they will delve into fundamental elements such as role-playing and dream analysis. In addition, one of the great advantages of this program is its wide range of possibilities in the Virtual Campus. This gives students the opportunity to complement their learning with an extensive digital library and to review the materials at any time, without any restrictions.

Help your patients to grow personally and leave psychosomatic illnesses behind"

This Postgraduate diploma in Intervention in Psychosomatic Disorders Using Gestalt contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Gestalt model
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Enjoy unlimited access to the Virtual Campus of this Postgraduate diploma to perfect your knowledge"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the industry who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

Examine in depth the different types of dreams and offer your patients the tools to learn to live them, instead of trying to explain them"

Specialize in the Gestalt Model with a global perspective from the world's largest online university"

The syllabus of this Postgraduate diploma has been designed under the careful supervision of the team of psychologists that make up the faculty. This ensures that the program includes all the necessary concepts that students demand to excel in this area. In this line, the contents will deal with the psychosomatic patient, suppressive and integrative techniques, role-playing, dreams, or defense mechanisms in therapy.

Examine in depth the psychosomatic orientation in Psychology to intervene successfully through Gestalt Therapy"

Module 1. Fundamentals of Psychosomatic Medicine 

1.1. The Soma-Psyche Unit
1.2. Functional Symptom, Conversion and Disease

1.2.1. Psychosomatic Orientation in Psychology
1.2.2. Liaison Psychology

1.3. Resurgence of a New Discipline: Health Psychology

1.3.1. Disciplinary Delimitation

1.4. The Alexithymia Construct

1.4.1. Historical Review of the Concept
1.4.2. Features
1.4.3. Etiological Hypotheses
1.4.4. Assessment
1.4.5. Processing Emotional Stimuli in Alexithymia

1.5. Psychosomatic Patients

1.5.1. Psychosomatic Disease Components and Characteristics
1.5.2. Processes and Dynamics of Psychosomatic Disease
1.5.3. Ways Psychosomatic Disorders Manifest

1.6. Stress and Psychosomatics Disorders
1.7. Personality and Psychosomatics
1.8. Psychosocial Aspects of Psychosomatic Disorders
1.9. Psychosomatic Processes: A Defense Mechanism for Integrity?
1.10. Intermediate Neurophysiological, Neuroendocrine, Immunological and Psychic Mechanisms

Module 2. Psychological Intervention in Psychosomatic Disorders Using Gestalt

2.1. Suppressive Techniques

2.1.1. Experiencing Nothingness
2.1.2. Making Sterile Emptiness become Fertile Emptiness
2.1.3. Avoiding "Talking about" and Encouraging Living

2.2. Detecting the "“Shoulds"”
2.3. Detecting "as if" Role Playing
2.4. Expressive Techniques

2.4.1. Externalizing the Internal
2.4.2. Expressing the Unexpressed
2.4.3. Completing or Complementing Expression

2.4.3.1. Role-Paying Games
2.4.3.2. Working on Problems in an Imaginary Way
2.4.3.3. Reviving Situations in a Healthy Way

2.5. Look for the Direction to Make the Direct Expression

2.5.1. Continuous Repetition
2.5.2. Exaggeration and Development
2.5.3. Translation: Expressing in Words What is Done

2.6. Confronting Oneself

2.6.1. Taking on Responsibility
2.6.2. Allowing Fears to Surface
2.6.3. Getting People to Express Their Feelings

2.7. Action and Identification

2.7.1. Acting out Your Feelings and Emotions

2.8. Integrative Techniques

2.8.1. Incorporate or Re-Integrate Aligned Parts:
2.8.2. Intrapersonal Encounter
2.8.3. Dialog between "I Should" and "I Want"
2.8.4. Assimilation of Projections: Living the Projection as One's Own

2.9. Dreams in Gestalt

2.9.1. Living the Dream, Not Explaining It
2.9.2. Types of Dreams in Gestalt Psychology

2.10. Defense Mechanisms in Gestalt Psychology
2.11. Facilitating Internal and External Contact
2.12. Self-Regulation of the Organism

2.12.1. Desensitization
2.12.2. Projection
2.12.3. Introjection
2.12.4. Retroflection
2.12.5. Deflection
2.12.6. Confluence
2.12.7. Fixation
2.12.8. Retention

A unique training experience, key and decisive to boost your professional development"