Full Definition of SITE. 1. a: the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (as a building, town, or monuments) b: a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building. 2.
The Whole is Other than the Sum of the Parts When the perceptual system forms a percept or gestalt, the whole thing has a reality of its own, independent of the parts. The Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka made a famous statement about this: The whole is other than the sum of its parts. This statement is often translated to English as, The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
The term individual psychology does not mean to focus on the individual. Alfred Adler said one must take into account the patient's whole environment, including the people the patient associates with. The term individual is used to mean the patient is an indivisible whole.he English edition of Adler's work on the subject (1925) is a collection of papers and lectures given mainly in 1912â1914, and covers the whole range of human psychology in a single survey, intended to mirror the indivisible unity of the personality.