PSYCHOLOGIST

Fritz Perls

1893 - 1970

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Friedrich Salomon Perls (July 8, 1893 – March 14, 1970), better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst 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 lived there until 1969. The core of the Gestalt therapy process is enhanced awareness of sensation, perception, bodily feelings, emotion, and behavior, in the present moment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Perls is the 62nd most popular psychologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 886th most popular biography from Germany (down from 760th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Psychologist.

Fritz Perls is most famous for his Gestalt Therapy. Gestalt therapy is a psychotherapy that focuses on the whole of the person and not just the individual's symptoms.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Fritz Perls ranks 62 out of 235. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, Raymond Cattell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Janet, Stanley Milgram, and Alice Miller. After him are Leon Festinger, William Stern, Raymond Moody, Philip Zimbardo, Bruno Bettelheim, and Alexander Luria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Fritz Perls ranks 41. Before him are Qazi Muhammad, Juana Bormann, Miroslav Krleža, Andrés Segovia, Lili Boulanger, and Emmy Göring. After him are Hans Fallada, James B. Conant, Hermann Balck, Viktor Shklovsky, Hattie McDaniel, and Ana Pauker. Among people deceased in 1970, Fritz Perls ranks 42. Before him are Władysław Anders, Andrey Yeryomenko, Francis Peyton Rous, John Dos Passos, Bourvil, and Arthur Adamov. After him are Lázaro Cárdenas, Nina Ricci, Isdal Woman, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Pedro Cea, and E. M. Forster.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Perls ranks 886 out of 7,253. Before him are Margot Frank (1926), Carl Reinecke (1824), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Walther Wenck (1900), and Alfred Hugenberg (1865). After him are Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), William Stern (1871), Kurt Zeitzler (1895), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), and Harald Quandt (1921).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Fritz Perls ranks 9. Before him are Erik Erikson (1902), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Karen Horney (1885), Hans Eysenck (1916), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Kurt Koffka (1886). After him are William Stern (1871), Karl Bühler (1879), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), and Adolf Bastian (1826).

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