Fritz Perls

Known for

Acting

Gender

Male

Born

July 8, 1893

Age at death

76

Died

March 14, 1970

From

Berlin, Germany

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.