HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF FOUNDERS Fritz
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF FOUNDERS
Learning is the discovery that something is possible. This is what quoted by Fritz Perls or known as Frederick Salomon Perls. Fritz Perls was born on 1980 and is a well-known therapist in the 20th century. He co-founded gestalt therapy with his wife Laura Perls. As a young teenager, Fritz Perls is enthusiasts about Sigmund Freud work and later further his research toward Freudian psychoanalysis.
Perls joined the German army during the World War I. It is stated that Perls proclaims the war desensitized him because he learned both horror ways of dying and living (Gestalt Therapy Network, p. 1). Perls married Laura Perls on 1930 and had two children. According to Perls, Laura gadded him into marriage while Laura states that Perls asked her to marry him just to make sure himself he is impotent or not. Both Fritz and Laura Perls had a stormy marriage and people believed their marriage is ambiguous. In 1933, Perls brought his family to South Africa in order to escape from Nazis. To serve the psychoanalytical community there, he founded a training institute. Immediately Perls joined British Army and worked as psychiatrist (Clarkson,Mackewn,1993).
In 1946, Perls worked with Wilhelm Reich and Karen Horney and because of this, he had to move his family to New York and settled in Manhattan. In 1951, Paul Goodman ,Ralph Hefferline and Perls published the book Gestalt Therapy based on Perls’s research and clinical study. Shortly after that, Perls started to conduct Gestalt therapy in his Manhattan apartment. His journey starts further when he begins to share his theories with North America and even started to conduct seminars and training workshops.
Gestalt therapy starts to gain popularity among patients in mid of 1950s and because of that, relationship between Laura and Fritz Perls started to deteriorate. (Clarkson,Mackewn 1993). Perls moved out from his apartment and moved to Miami but alone this time and started private practice.
Learning is the discovery that something is possible. This is what quoted by Fritz Perls or known as Frederick Salomon Perls. Fritz Perls was born on 1980 and is a well-known therapist in the 20th century. He co-founded gestalt therapy with his wife Laura Perls. As a young teenager, Fritz Perls is enthusiasts about Sigmund Freud work and later further his research toward Freudian psychoanalysis.
Perls joined the German army during the World War I. It is stated that Perls proclaims the war desensitized him because he learned both horror ways of dying and living (Gestalt Therapy Network, p. 1). Perls married Laura Perls on 1930 and had two children. According to Perls, Laura gadded him into marriage while Laura states that Perls asked her to marry him just to make sure himself he is impotent or not. Both Fritz and Laura Perls had a stormy marriage and people believed their marriage is ambiguous. In 1933, Perls brought his family to South Africa in order to escape from Nazis. To serve the psychoanalytical community there, he founded a training institute. Immediately Perls joined British Army and worked as psychiatrist (Clarkson,Mackewn,1993).
In 1946, Perls worked with Wilhelm Reich and Karen Horney and because of this, he had to move his family to New York and settled in Manhattan. In 1951, Paul Goodman ,Ralph Hefferline and Perls published the book Gestalt Therapy based on Perls’s research and clinical study. Shortly after that, Perls started to conduct Gestalt therapy in his Manhattan apartment. His journey starts further when he begins to share his theories with North America and even started to conduct seminars and training workshops.
Gestalt therapy starts to gain popularity among patients in mid of 1950s and because of that, relationship between Laura and Fritz Perls started to deteriorate. (Clarkson,Mackewn 1993). Perls moved out from his apartment and moved to Miami but alone this time and started private practice.