Gestalt therapy is a type of therapy used to deepen our awareness of ourselves. According to O'Connor and Braverman, (2009) "Gestalt" implies integrity. “Gestalt therapy is a process-oriented experiential therapy that deals with the integrated functioning of all aspects of the person: senses, body, emotions and intellect. Gestalt therapy can help shed light on repressed feelings by helping us focus our awareness on our feelings in the “here and now.” Once recognized, resolving uncomfortable feelings, correcting habitual negative behavioral patterns, and recognizing and changing negative thought processes can become part of therapeutic work. Through this form of therapeutic process, individuals can become better equipped to understand themselves and improve healthier choices, thus creating a unity of mind, body and spirit. When the theory is applied to taking responsibility for one's problems and life experiences, to making them one's own, exploring them from all sides, feeling them fully, and then making choices and finding a way out of difficulties , the input of a caring therapist contributes significantly to the Gestalt Play Therapy process. Individuals identify with only one side of an internal conflict, the Gestalt process presupposes that we are in tune with both sides and claiming ownership of both points of view can lead to resolving difficulties without force, with solutions that develop naturally. Considering the problems as a whole, Max Wertheimer (Miller, 1975) considered that cognition occurs in productive and reproductive ways. Productive cognition is problem solving with intuition, a simultaneous and insightful response to the situation...... middle of paper ......, A. (1962) Role of diseases of the body in the mental health of children. The psychoanalytic study of the child, 7. 149- 152.2011 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis code 307.47-Other dysfunctions of the sleep stages or awakening from sleep. Retrieved from http://www.icd9data.com/2011/Volume1/290-3 19/300-316/307/307.47.htm Kalff, Dora. (2003) Sandplay: a psychotherapeutic approach to the psyche. Temenos Press, Cloverdale, CA.Lowenfeld, M. (1991) Play in childhood. MacKeith Press, London.Miller, A. (1975) Albert Einstein and Max Wertheimer: a Gestalt psychologist's view of the genesis of the theory of special relativity. History of science; an annual review of literature, research and teaching 13 (2): 75–103. PMID 11610002.Oaklander, V. (1988) Windows on our children: a Gestalt therapy approach to children and adolescents. The Gestalt Journal Press; Gouldsboro, Maine.