Fritz Perls
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. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in 1964, and he lived there until 1969. His approach to psychotherapy is related to, but not identical to, Gestalt psychology, and it is different from Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy.
The core of the Gestalt Therapy process is enhanced awareness of sensation, perception, bodily feelings, emotion, and behavior, in the present moment. Relationship is emphasized, along with contact between the self, its environment, and the other.
“Learning is the discovery that something is possible”
“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.”
“Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.”
“I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.”
“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.”
“The person most in control is the person who can give up control.”
“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectationsAnd 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.”
“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”
“Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
“...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.”
“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.”