Legacy from Fritz: Gifts from Lake Cowichan

by Frederick Salomon Perls, Patricia Baumgardner

Book by Perls, Fritz, Baumgardner, Patricia

Genres: Psychology

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Nan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first part of this book is so useful. It made me fall in love with the Gestalt therapy. I learned a lot. However, the second part lacks order and the practices that Perls did in therapy groups were kind of weird sometimes. I take the good things and ignore the bad parts. I recommend it, though, at least the first part.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

from the library ILL
written from the last notes of Fritz Perls about Gestalt therapy