The Task of Gestalt Psychology

Köhler's late Princeton lectures summarizing and defending Gestalt psychology's achievements and ongoing relevance.

A retrospective and forward-looking defense of Gestalt psychology by its last major practitioner. Addresses what Gestalt psychology achieved (the critique of elementalism, the principles of perceptual organization, the brain-behavior isomorphism thesis) and what remained to be done. A lucid late statement of a program that had been largely absorbed by cognitive psychology.