Fritz Perls

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

1893-07-08

Deathday

1970-03-14

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Fritz Perls

Biography

Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist 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.