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Fritz Perls

Fritz Perls

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08 Jul 1893
14 Mar 1970
Berlin, Germany

Biography

Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon 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.