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.

Fritz Perls

About Fritz Perls

Portrait of Fritz Perls

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...

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