Fritz Perls
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German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Friedrich 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 lived there until 1969.