Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893 - 1933

Using Fritz Perls as an example, this book recalls the representatives of an urban avant-garde culture who were driven out of Europe, emigrated, and for the most part found a new homeland in the USA. Many an element of the lost avant-garde spirit later found its way back to Europe in an enriched form. This monograph is the first to focus in greater depth on the German-European roots of Gestalt therapy. It thereby bridges the continents at the same time.

Bernd Bocian, PH.D. was born in 1954, and lives in Genoa, Italy. He works in private practice as well as in a Cooperativa Sociale. He is gestalt therapist, and was also trained in Reichian body work and psychoanalytic therapy. From 1985 to 2000 he was a member of the editorial board of the German journal Gestalttherapie (Ed. by DVG - Deutsche Vereinigung für Gestalttherapie - German Association for Gestalt therapy). He is author of various publications on the historical and contemporary relation between gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis (e.g. Bocian, B. / Staemmler, F.-M.: Gestalttherapie und Psychoanalyse 2000).