Fritz Perls
Fritz Perls
FriedrichSalomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Perls coined the term 'Gestalt therapy' to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the 1940s and 1950s. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in 1964, and he lived there until 1969. His approach to psychotherapy is related to, but not identical to, Gestalt psychology, and it is different from Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth8 July 1893
CountryUnited States of America
Fritz Perls quotes about
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.