Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy

Fritz Perls has been widely cited outside the realm of psychotherapy for a quotation often described as the "Gestalt prayer":

I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.

(Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, 1969)

In 1969 Perls left Esalen and started a Gestalt community at Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island,

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Fritz Perls, fully Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls

Fritz Perls

Otto Dix

• Date: 1966
• Style: Verism
• Genre: portrait

 

 

 

Fritz Perls, 

fully Friedrich "Fritz" (Frederick) Salomon Perls

1893

1970

German-born Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist of Jewish Descent, Founder of Gestalt Therapy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Otto Dix (1891-1969) pittore tedesco