Fritz Perls is an interesting figure in psychology to me. I came across his name when looking more into influences of Freud. Perls was a influential German born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. Perls coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy', which is an approach to therapy that was created with the help of him and his wife Laura Perls. The approach Perls created is related to but not exactly the same as Gestalt Psychology and the Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy of Hans-Ju-rgen Walter. " The center of Gestalt Therapy is about the promotion of awareness and the awareness of the unity of all present feelings and behaviors and the contact among the self and the environment". Perls was widely brought out of the world of psychotherapy interestingly for a quotation of his often described as the "Gestalt Prayer", which goes as follows: "I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped". It is surely apparent to me that Perls definitely had an interesting life from his various research, like the research related text in the book "Ego, Hunger and Aggression" published in 1941 with the help of his wife Laura and from things like being an army psychiatrist in the South African Army during World War 2, where he served as the rank of captain. Perls also worked briefly with Karen Horney in New York and then later on with Wilhelm Reich after being in the South African Army. Around 1947, Perls asked author Paul Goodman to write up some handwritten notes, which also came with the help from Ralph Hefferline and these notes where published as Gestalt Therapy. And to add a couple more interesting facts about Perls life in 1960 Perls moved to California where he continued to provide workshops as a member of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur and then he later moved to Vancouver Island Canada and started a Gestalt Community at Lake Cowichan. So in summary here I have to say it is hard to imagine where the schools of thought of the Gestalt perspective would be without the fascinating works of Fritz Perls.