Perls, Laura
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Name (Latin)
Perls, Laura
Date of birth
1905-08-15
Date of death
1990-07-13
Place of birth
Pforzheim (Germany)
Place of death
Pforzheim (Germany)
Place of residence/headquarters
New York (N.Y.)
(1951.
Field of activity
Gestalt therapy
Associate group
New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy
Occupation
Psychotherapists Psychologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Sources of Information
- Her Gestalt workshop--contact & support [SR] [1973]:label (Laura Perls) accompanying notes (Laura Perls; director of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy)
- Laura Perls (née Lore Posner; August 15, 1905 in Pforzheim - July 13, 1990 in Pforzheim) was a noted German-born psychologist and psychotherapist who helped establish the Gestalt school of psychotherapy; 1951, moved to New York ( (Wikipedia. July 20, 2016:) )
Wikipedia description:
Laura Perls (née Lore Posner; 15 August 1905 – 13 July 1990) was a German-Jewish psychologist and psychotherapist. She is most notable for developing the Gestalt therapy approach in collaboration with her husband and fellow psychotherapist Fritz Perls and the public intellectual Paul Goodman.
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