Introduction to Friedrich Perls? Life.

He is the youngest of three children. Parents are old-fashioned German Jewish middle class. Because of the rise of the Nazis, his family was affected and his sister died in a concentration camp. He thinks he is the source of trouble for his parents. In the process of studying, I failed the seventh grade twice, and was expelled from school at the age of 1906 and 13 respectively for disobedience. 19 13 entered the University of Freiburg to study law and then transferred to medicine. 19 18 became a medical volunteer in World War I and later became a regular staff member. 192 1 received a doctorate in psychiatry from the university of Berlin. 1926 entered the Frankfurt Institute for Soldiers with Brain Injury and became the assistant of K Goldstein. Pierce was influenced by Goldstein, who looked at the soldiers with brain injury from the viewpoint of gestalt psychology and paid attention to the soldiers' perception of themselves and their surroundings. During his stay at Frankfurt College, Pierce met several people who had a great influence on his future work, including his future wife Laura Posner (12 years old), who had contact with early Gestalt psychologists. Here he began to realize the importance of treating people as a whole, rather than treating people as the sum of their respective functions. Then I went to Vienna and received psychoanalytic training from the psychoanalytic master Reich. Reich is a pioneer who regards the body as a method to change personality, and initiated a method of self-understanding. At the same time, Pierce also accepted the teaching of several other psychoanalysts, such as K. Horney. During this period, he also met Adler, Jung and Freud. 1933, due to the rise of the Nazis, Pierce left Germany for the Netherlands and moved to South Africa a year later.

1935, he established the South African Psychoanalysis Institute. While in South Africa, he met Jane Smotz, the author of The Theory of Sacredness and Evolution, and he also influenced the development of Pierce Gestalt psychotherapy. I stayed in South Africa for 12 years and immigrated to the United States in 1946. Since then, his analytical method has gradually parted ways with traditional psychoanalysis. 1952, new york Gestalt Therapy Institute was founded by Paul Goodman and his wife Laura Poehls. Pierce spent nine years in new york, traveling or visiting different countries and cities, and established Gestalt therapy training centers in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Israel, Japan and Canada. From 1960, he lived in Big Sur, California, and from 1964- 1969, he was a psychiatrist at the Ishalan Institute in Big Sur. From 65438 to 0969, he moved to Lake Cowichan in vancouver island, the capital of British Columbia. There, he founded a therapeutic exchange meeting.