Grow to accept self at the outset - key for this type of therapy (7)
I believe the answer is:
gestalt
'this type of therapy' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to thinking as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'grow to accept self at the outset key' is the wordplay.
'grow' becomes 'get' (synonyms).
'to accept' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'at the outset' indicates taking the first letters (the outset is the beginning).
'key' becomes 'alt' (the Alt keyboard button).
The initial letter of 'self' is 's'.
'get' going around 's' is 'gest'.
'gest'+'alt'='GESTALT'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gestalt that I've seen before include "whole of psychology" , "Pattern perceived as whole" , "Organised whole, more than the sum of its parts" , "establish a pattern" .)