Fritz Perls

compassionate.

If you go onto YouTube and watch some of the original Fritz Perls videos, Not only will you see somebody who isn't necessarily compassionate, but Forgive me, people watching this might say, well, he is.

But somebody who would argue, actually, about the importance of maybe a different style of therapy.

So when you say good self-therapist, I think Fritz Perls, when you see his videos, it's interesting to think, interesting to look at the style.

But we are going back to the 1960s, aren't we? We're now in 26, so I think therapy has moved on quite a while.

But when did Carl Rogers make his core conditions? That was in the 50s, 60s?

What of course we're referring to and looking at is the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder, their work in NLP or neuro-linguistic programming in the 70s in California.

And really what they were looking at, they began by considering who are the most efficient, effective and unusual therapists with unusual skills And of course they looked towards Fritz Perls, they looked towards Virginia Satter and then Milton Erickson later And so they began to model and look at what are the communication patterns, what's occurring and orientating around really rapid change.

And since that time NLP and various applications have really become very popular and established in various fields that go beyond psychology, psychotherapy into coaching, leadership and so on.

But the main aspect, and we could unpack it further at another time, but the main thing in looking at NLP is the notion or the assumption that we don't experience reality directly, we represent reality.

It's in the book.

It's, um, it's, it's a Fritz Perls exercise, actually, he was a psychoanalyst, where you use three chairs.

Originally, it was for when people have had a difficult experience with another human being.

So you have a chair for you and a chair for them, and you sit down in your chair and replay the experience, you know, the whatever the bad interaction was, the way you and God and everyone know it actually happened, right? And then you stand up, you leave yourself in that chair, and you go sit down in the other person's chair and just feel what it's like to be in their body, which is a huge eye-opener, typically.

Facing the raw reality of the present moment.

Which perfectly aligns with the third major theory in this humanist cluster, Gestalt therapy, developed by Fritz Perls.

The word Gestalt roughly translates to whole.

And the absolute core operating principle of this theory is a relentless focus on the here and now.

Fue la versión más pura y más extrema de estar presente que realmente he vivido en toda mi vida.

No sé si Freud, no sé si Perls, que-- [ríe] Fritz Perls, que fue quien inventó o quien investigó, no lo inventó, quien investigó sobre la psicología gestáltica alguna vez hizo treinta y dos kilómetros.

Pero si lo hizo, de fijo, de fijo, también terminó gritando "cierre" en algún kilómetro.

Ahora la parte más honesta de este episodio.

So for 10, 15 minutes, she talked to Carl Rogers, who was a sweet guy.

And then she talked to Fritz Perls, who was a weirdo gestalt guy who was actually a pretty smart guy, but half psychodynamic and lost in space.

And then the third one was Albert Ellis, I believe, one of the mainline people that did effectively CBT, except kind of armory version of it known as rational emotive therapy, which is CBT with a New York edge.

And so...

Yeah, anything that is unfinished.

You know who wrote about that was a guy named Fritz Perls, and he had the school of gestalt therapy, which I really like because it's about closure.

People come into our offices with something that's not done.

And it might be, you know, a breakup that just happened, but it could also be, as so many people brought in over the years, they were molested when they were a little girl, or they were raped in their 20s, or they had an abortion that they never talked to anybody about and it still bothers them.

I was watching Carl Rogers.

I was watching Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, films about Piaget.

One thing led to another.

I was in my own psychotherapy and I ended up doing a master's in social work at the University of Michigan because it was right there.