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Tribute to Laura Perls

Saybrook Institute, 1550 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109.

This article is a narrative about Laura Perls's life and death. Because women's narratives are often not heard, and because Laura wrote very little, it is important to tell her story. Laura studied with Martin Buber and Paul Tillich, was a dancer and concert pianist, and wanted to name the emerging Gestalt therapy "existential therapy." Because her version of Gestalt therapy is closer to philosophy and the arts and emphasizes a more "feminine" support than Fritz Perls's emphasis on action and confrontation, her version of Gestalt should be told for historical accuracy.

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 3, 57-66 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0022167892323005


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