PSYCHOLOGIST

Laura Perls

1905 - 1990

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Laura Perls (née Lore Posner; 15 August 1905 – 13 July 1990) was a German-Jewish psychologist and psychotherapist. She is most notable for developing the Gestalt therapy approach in collaboration with her husband and fellow psychotherapist Fritz Perls and the public intellectual Paul Goodman. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laura Perls is the 188th most popular psychologist (up from 191st in 2019), the 4,065th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,024th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Laura Perls ranks 188 out of 235. Before her are Nise da Silveira, Fritz Heider, Otto Binswanger, Boris Cyrulnik, Lisbeth Palme, and Dan Ariely. After her are Frank Rosenblatt, Gustave Gilbert, Ronald Fairbairn, Lewis Terman, Karl H. Pribram, and Frederik van Eeden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Laura Perls ranks 225. Before her are Edmundo Piaggio, Araken Patusca, Ernst Baier, Gösta Dunker, Al Taliaferro, and Oleksandr Korniychuk. After her are Mary Renault, Conduelo Píriz, Eric Frank Russell, Pote Sarasin, Fulvio Bernardini, and Irmgard Keun. Among people deceased in 1990, Laura Perls ranks 174. Before her are Erkki Aaltonen, Araken Patusca, Boris Paichadze, Luis Trenker, Germán Suárez Flamerich, and Jacques Soustelle. After her are Đorđe Vujadinović, Yevgeniya Sechenova, Ahti Karjalainen, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Paco Godia, and Herbert Wehner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Laura Perls ranks 4,067 out of 7,253. Before her are Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), Edgar Reitz (1932), Basilius Besler (1561), Irm Hermann (1942), and Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (1799). After her are Inge Scholl (1917), Hugo Winckler (1863), Albert von Le Coq (1860), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1832), and Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Laura Perls ranks 21. Before her are Adolf Bastian (1826), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Charlotte Bühler (1893), Ulric Neisser (1928), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889). After her are Uta Frith (1941), and Hans-Werner Gessmann (1950).

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