# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fritz-perls
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:24:53.999Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/fritz-perls"
name: "Fritz Perls"
slug: "fritz-perls"
description: "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 that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1964, Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute (U.S.) where he lived until 1969."
tagline: "German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist (1893-1970)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1893-07-08"
deathDate: "1970-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump