List of Famous people with last name Perls

Laura Perls

First Name Laura

Last Name Perls

Born on August 15, 1905

Died on July 13, 1990 (aged 84)

Born in Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Laura Perls was a noted German-born psychologist and psychotherapist who helped establish the Gestalt school of psychotherapy. She was the wife of Friedrich (Frederick) Perls, also a renowned psychotherapist and psychiatrist.

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Fritz Perls

First Name Fritz

Last Name Perls

Died on March 14, 1970

Born in Germany

Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls, 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 he lived there until 1969.

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