Fritz Perls
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"Friedrich" ("Frederick") "Salomon Perls" (July 8, 1893 – March 14, 1970), better known as "Fritz Perls", was a noted Germany/German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapy/psychotherapist. Perls Neologism/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 he lived there until 1969. His approach to psychotherapy is related to, but not identical to, Gestalt psychology, and it is different from Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy.

The core of the Gestalt Therapy process is enhanced awareness of sensation, perception, bodily feelings, emotion, and behavior, in the present moment. Relationship is emphasized, along with contact between the self, its environment, and the other.

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Learning is the discovery that something is possible.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.