Friedrich Salomon Perls - also Frederick S. Perls - (* 8. July 1893 in Berlin, "† 14. May 1970 in Chicago), psychiatrists and Psychotherapeut of GermanJewish origin, is considered as one of the relevant founders of the Gestalt therapy.

Perls was originally Psychoanalytiker, developed then however in demarcation to the psychoanalysis with his Mrs. Laura Perls (geb. truck Posner), Paul Goodman and other coworkers a specific experience-activating Psychotherapieverfahren. As its core the promotion of the Awareness, the aware of unity of all present feelings, feelings and behaviors, and the contact can be considered to itself and to the environment. Perls remained to that extent faithful for its origin by the psychoanalysis despite violent criticism at it, and its Gestalt therapy like the psychoanalysis in the core resistance analysis is: completing the different resistances in the Gestalt therapy around the analysis and, which contact, insight and change to oppose, goes.

Perls was among other things strongly affected of the Gestalt psychology and/or shape theory, with which he divided the holistic orientation and integrated from which he some realizations into his Gestalt therapy. These purchases come also in the choice of the designation Gestalt therapy to the expression. The American shape psychologists Rudolf Arnheim and Mary Henle faced this relationship however critically.

Related to Perls Gestalt therapy, but not identically, are the shape-theoretical Psychotherapie developing directly on the Gestalt psychology after Hans walter and the Integrative therapy come out from the Gestalt therapy under integration of other beginnings after Hilarion Petzold.

Literature to lives and work of Fritz Perls

• Petruska Clarkson, Jennifer Mackewn: Frederick S. Perls and the Gestalt therapy. EHP: Cologne 1993
• Martin Shepard: Fritz. Second chance press: Sagaponack 1975

Related links

• gestalt.de Fritz Perls over Fritz Perls: auto+biographic references in the Internet
• a gestalt.de almost forgotten interview with F. Perls
• gestalt.de its son Stephen over its father
• gestalt.de Arnold R. Beisser: Fritz Perls - teacher, colleague, friend
• http://www.dvg-gestalt.de
• Gestalt therapy lexikon.de keyword: Fritz Perls (encyclopedia of the Gestalt therapy)

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