Here and Now: Gestalt Therapy (1969)

Fritz Perls (Frederich Salomon Perls, 1893 - 1970) developed and popularized Gestalt therapy, after his training as a psychoanalyst in Berlin, then Austria. He and his family fled the Nazi regime by moving to South Africa in 1933, establishing a training institute for psychoanalysis there before developing his unique theoretical approach. In 1946, the Perls family moved to New York where Perls worked briefly with Wilhelm Reich and Karen Horney. Perls eventually settled in Manhattan and began working with the intellectual Paul Goodman.