Clotilde Sarrió offers us a brief and elegant profile of the father of Gestalt Therapy:
To know and understand Gestalt Therapy it is important to contemplate its origins, its influences and its founders, that is, its history. In order to avoid writing an excessively long and dense article, I have chosen to divide the biography of Friedrich Salomon Perls (1893-1970) into three installments, better known as Fritz Perls and considered together with his wife Laura Perls as the creator and founder of Gestalt Therapy.
Friedrich Salomon Perls was born on July 8, 1983 in a Jewish ghetto on the outskirts of Berlin. He was the third and last child after two girls—Else and Grete. His father, Nathan, was a wine fractionator, traveling salesman and Freemason. He spent a lot of time away from home and always had a bad relationship with Fritz. Amalia, her mother, a practicing Jew, came from the petite bourgeoisie and managed to awaken in her son an interest in art and especially in opera and theater, which would last throughout his life.
Perls spent his early days as a student at the Mommsen-Gymnasium of Berlin, a school that with the passage of time would remember with the displeasure typical of a disastrous experience, due to the excess of discipline and the anti-Semitic atmosphere that was breathed in the center of which, despite being a brilliant student, was expelled to thirteen years of age for bad behavior. As a result, Perls’ father forced him to work as an apprentice in a candy store.
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