Fritz Perls

Fritz Perls

Known For

Acting

Born

July 8, 1893

Died

March 14, 1970 (aged 76)

Birthplace

Berlin, Germany

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.