Fritz Perls
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Friedrich Salomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Perls coined the term "Gestalt therapy" to identify the form of psychotherapy t
Perls in 1923
Jan Smuts
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Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union
Fritz Perls
…African army, and he served as an army psychiatrist with the rank of captain until 1946. While in South Africa, Perls was influenced by the "holism" of Jan Smuts. During this period Fritz Perls co-wrote his first book, Ego, Hunger, and Aggression (published in 1942 and re-published in 1947). Laura Perls wrote…
Smuts in 1934
Jacobus and Catharina Smuts, 1893
Jan Smuts, as a young state attorney general in 1895
Jan Smuts and Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War, c. 1901