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Empty Chair Techniques

The document describes the empty chair technique used in gestalt therapy. It involves a client imagining a person, part of themselves, or aspect sitting in an empty chair across from them. The client has a dialogue with the empty chair, switching between roles, to work through unresolved feelings, find closure after trauma, or cope with grief. The therapist facilitates the dialogue and discussion after to help the client process their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

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Empty Chair Techniques

The document describes the empty chair technique used in gestalt therapy. It involves a client imagining a person, part of themselves, or aspect sitting in an empty chair across from them. The client has a dialogue with the empty chair, switching between roles, to work through unresolved feelings, find closure after trauma, or cope with grief. The therapist facilitates the dialogue and discussion after to help the client process their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

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DEMONSTRATION OF EMPTY CHAIR TECHNIQUE

Department of Psychology

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Semester 06

Group 01

Eman Ameer, Ramsha Amanat, Asad Hassnain, Yasir Ali, Meera Irshad.

20103002-007, 20103002-016, 20103002-037, 20103002-038, 20103002-055

Clinical Psychology – I

Submitted to: Ms. Anna Sharif

Submission Date: 24 - 05- 2023


Instructions

The empty chair technique is a quintessential gestalt therapy exercise that places the person

in therapy across from an empty chair. He or she is asked to imagine that someone (such as

a boss, spouse, or relative), they, or a part of themselves is sitting in the chair. Sometimes

the roles are reversed and the person in therapy assumes the metaphorical person or part of

a person in the chair.

Steps

Step 1: Identifying the ‘object’

 Inviting a patient to sit in one chair and have an imagine encounter with someone from

the past, the present, or the future in the chair opposite and/or using several chairs to

create dialogues among different parts of the self with love, desire, fear, and courage

often emerging as core themes.

 Through discussion with the therapist or counselor, you might identify whom or what

you’d like to speak with in an empty chair dialogue.

Step 2: Conducting the dialogue

 The therapist encourages dialogue between the empty chair and person in therapy in

order to engage the person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The Four Dialogues

can be used in the treatment of depression, trauma, interpersonal mistreatment, anxiety

disorders, inner conflict, personality disorders, self-hatred, and socially induced trauma

and pain.

 The Four Dialogues are Giving Voice, Telling the Story, Internal Dialogues,

and Relationships and Encounters.

 With the therapist’s help, you could talk to the aspect of yourself or the person you

imagine being in the empty chair. If the object is an aspect, you might play that role and

answer your questions.

Step 3: Switching places

Often, you will switch places and play the opposite role with the person or aspect you’re talking
to. The way this manifests depends on your goals in therapy. Some people may want to:

 work through unresolved feelings

 find closure after a traumatic event

 cope with grief

Step 4: Assessment and discussion

After an empty chair session, your therapist may want to debrief with you. You may be

encouraged to discuss the conversation and how you felt.

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