After years of continuous mentalization and interpretative analysis, the academic trend of psychoanalytic oriented teaching in the psychology department at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut was dominant.

I was definitely attracted to any starting point where human conscious, realistic exchange was dominant so I can experience a psychological process that goes along with the actual needs of the patient & the therapist.

Attracted to the world of mentally retarded children, adolescents & adults, it allowed me to develop a sensori-awareness process that enables simple reach and exchange with that special population. There, happened a decrease of mentalization in favor of a clear face to face contact with practical down to earth words. Here is a place for mutual exchange, mutual emotional recognition, spontaneous gestures as the necessary steps for simple logical & verbal interaction.

I was interested then to understand the actual experience of the client. I needed to explore at the present everything happening in the clinical interaction.

The drastic difference between other therapies and Gestalt therapy is mutual awareness. A new dialogue is growing up between the therapist and his patient to enable him to be more conscious about how he expresses his needs on all levels; mental, physical, emotional & spiritual.

I finally wish to develop through clinical practice and Gestalt training, an integrative self-psychotherapeutical approach that can be used by the patient as an ultimate step to detect, evaluate, self-perceive, prevent & adapt himself to deal with all his basic needs.