Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls from the 1940s, and he became associated with the Esalen Institute in California in 1964. Wikipedia
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March 17, 1970,Tuesday Page 43, 453 words Dr. Frederick S. Perls, a founder of the Gestalt school of psychotherapy, died of heart failure Saturday after surgery at the Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0915F83C5A1574...
Fritz Perls, Of course, was the founder of Gestalt therapy perhaps the most popular and influential of the modern psychotherapies. www.gestalt.org/becker.htm
Fritz Perls wrote the following as part of his introduction to the 1969 Random House edition of Ego, Hunger and Aggression . For reasons unknown to us, only the material that followed the chronology actually appeared. www.gestalt.org/fritz.htm
"Psychiatry in a New Key" is a manuscript that we believe Perls started sometime in the early 1950's, after the publication of Gestalt Therapy , which he had co-authored with Paul Goodman and Ralph Hefferline. www.gestalt.org/newkey.htm
In celebration of the centennial of the birth of Frederick Perls, The Gestalt Journal invited his son Stephen, to address our Fifteenth Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy. www.gestalt.org/Stephen.htm
The self-biography presented below presents the essence of Fritz Perls , the father of Gestalt Therapy. He developed a unique approach to psychotherapy, after his traditional training as a psychoanalyst in Berlin and Austria. He emphasized a phenomenolo www.atpweb.org/pioneers/pioneers.fritzperls.html
Perls was born in 1893 in Germany, earned his medical degree in 1926, and then worked at the Institute for Brain Damaged Soldiers in Frankfurt. Here he was influenced by Kurt Goldstein ; gestalt psychology, a branch of academic psychology; and existentia www.doctortobin.com/pages/perls.shtml