An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy

The original edition of “An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy” included interviews with Laura Perls, Isadore From, Erving & Miriam Polster, and Elliott Shapiro. For this special edition, there are two additions: an interview with Frederick (Fritz) Perls and a talk delivered by the Perls’s son, Stephen, at the 15th Annual Conference of The Gestalt Journal in 1993.

The seeds of Gestalt therapy were planted when a “study group” formed in 1948 began meeting weekly in New York City. The group would...