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Fritz Perls
German-born psychiatrist (–)
Friedrich Salomon Perls (July 8, – March 14, ), better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist.
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Perls coined the term "Gestalt therapy" to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the s and s. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in and lived there until
The core of the Gestalt therapy process is enhanced awareness of sensation, perception, bodily feelings, emotion, and behavior, in the present moment.
Relationship is emphasized, along with contact between the self, its environment, and the other.
Life
Fritz Perls was born in Berlin, Germany, in He grew up in the bohemian scene in Berlin, participated in Expressionism and Dadaism, and experienced the turning of the artistic avant-garde toward the revolutionary left.
Deployment to the front line, the trauma of war, antisemitism, intimidation, escape, and the Holocaust are furt
