Fritz Perls

German-American psychologist who co-founded Gestalt therapy — a phenomenological approach focused on the present-moment experience and on completing unfinished situations.

Gestalt therapy: integration of present-moment experience — the empty chair technique, the hot seat, dream work as projection. Contact: genuine meeting at the boundary between self and environment. Against the retroflection and confluence that prevent authentic contact. Esalen Institute: his workshops at Esalen made Gestalt therapy the central therapeutic method of the human potential movement.