A collection of the non-fiction writings of Laura Posner Perls, this volume is divided into two sections exploring the history and theoretical development of Gestalt therapy. Also included are case history material and a transcription of a workshop given by Perls at a meeting of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.

On her passing, Erving and Miriam Polster, co-directors of The Gestalt Training Center — San Diego and authors of Gestalt Therapy Integrated, wrote:

"Bachelard says that memories are housed; that they do not occur so much in our schemes of when something happened but rather in our sense of where. The last time we saw Laura was at dinner in Cologne, only a few miles from her birthplace — and the last visual image we had was of her walking, not as briskly as we were used to, but with an air of easiness, along streets that felt familiar to her.
Laura Perls’ death carries with it the sense of a life completed by its geography. She died where she had been born — the ends of a circle joined. But what a circle. Interrupted and displaced by a force of evil that the world still recoils from, Laura lived in many places. Not only lived there, but contributed
to and influenced many lives that were enriched because of her presence."