PSYCHOLOGIST

Fritz Perls

1893 - 1970

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Friedrich Salomon Perls (July 8, 1893 – March 14, 1970), better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Perls has received more than 558,349 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Fritz Perls is the 56th most popular psychologist (down from 51st in 2019), the 760th most popular biography from Germany (down from 624th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Psychologist.

Fritz Perls is most famous for his Gestalt Therapy. Gestalt therapy is a psychotherapy that focuses on the whole of the person and not just the individual's symptoms.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Fritz Perls ranks 56 out of 235. Before him are Bruno Bettelheim, Albert Ellis, Kurt Koffka, Martin Seligman, Aaron T. Beck, and Alexander Luria. After him are Stanley Milgram, Pierre Janet, Solomon Asch, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Geert Hofstede, and Karl Abraham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Fritz Perls ranks 31. Before him are Hattie McDaniel, George Grosz, Harold Urey, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Hermann Balck, and Qazi Muhammad. After him are Andrés Segovia, Juana Bormann, Miroslav Krleža, Edward G. Robinson, Viktor Shklovsky, and Leslie Howard. Among people deceased in 1970, Fritz Perls ranks 38. Before him are Heinrich Brüning, Frances Farmer, Bourvil, Arthur Adamov, John Dos Passos, and Władysław Anders. After him are Nina Ricci, Francis Peyton Rous, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Richard Neutra, Italo Gariboldi, and Lázaro Cárdenas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Perls ranks 760 out of 7,253. Before him are Reinhard Gehlen (1902), Simon Marius (1573), Marie d'Agoult (1805), Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (1414), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), and Hugo Boss (1885). After him are Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729), Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Joachim Frank (1940), Karl Harrer (1890), Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), and Matilda of Ringelheim (894).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Fritz Perls ranks 8. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erik Erikson (1902), Karen Horney (1885), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Hans Eysenck (1916), and Kurt Koffka (1886). After him are Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Bühler (1879), William Stern (1871), and Rudolf Arnheim (1904).

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