"Gestalt psychology focuses on ways to unite the mind and body to make a person whole. It's goal of self-awareness is reached by helping group participants express pent up feelings and recognize unfinished business from past conflicts that is carried into new relationships and must be completed for growth to proceed." (p. 696)

      Gestalt Psychologists believe that the whole is bigger than it's parts. The main exponents of Gestalt Psychology "maintained that psychological phenomena could be understood only when viewed as organized, structured wholes and not when broken down into primitive perceptual elements. The term Gestalt roughly means "form,", "whole", "configuration," "essence." (p.268) 

      By taking in consideration not only the drawing, but rather, the patients entire being, the therapist can more accurately understand the patient's behavior. Parts such as the eyes, nose, head shape, and mouth don't mean much when they are represented alone. However, when they are combined, they can give a much more in depth interpretation of an individual.