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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An adherent or a practitioner of the principles of Gestalt psychology.

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  • It would be your "level of artistic awareness" to a Gestaltist.

    Living in the NOW The Daily Growler 2006

  • Köhler has realized, in the attempt to explain visual perception, a synthesis of Gestaltist and mechanistic hypotheses by the extension of physical field theory to cerebral functioning.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • But from the standpoint of principles, the overlapping of data com - ing from rival schools, for example, in the study of the whole personality in which we find concepts of various sources, behavioristic (apprenticeship), Gestaltist (unity of self), psychoanalytical (lived situations), culturalists

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FERNAND-LUCIEN MUELLER 1968

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