
Fritz Perls was born. A pioneering figure in the field of counseling, Perls along with his wife Laura founded and developed the Gestalt school of psychotherapy in the late 1940's and 1950's drawing on an eclectic mix of theoretical and philosophical influences, such as existentialism, phenomenology, pragmatism and humanism.
Perls's Gestalt approach was among the first major psychotherapies to reject the traditional psychoanalytic focus on early life truma in favor of an examination of a person's emotions and perceptions in the present moment. Still very popular today, Gestalt practitioners can be found all over the world working one-to-one with individuals, with couples, and with groups.
Published on July 08, 2014 09:28