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Like Satir, Perls was another of the best-known models for NLP’s development. He is often credited as the founder of Gestalt Therapy, although three other people, including his wife, co-authored with him the first book on the subject. Gestalt psychology dated back to 1912, but Perls turned it into a therapeutic tool. The word ‘Gestalt’ refers to a pattern of parts which make up a whole and Gestalt psychology indicates that a study of parts alone is not sufficient to lead to understanding – the whole must be taken into account.

Born in Berlin in 1893, Perls gained an MD in psychiatry. Originally influenced by Freud, he rejected the psychoanalytic movement, believing that the present is more important than the past. Often blunt and ignoring conventional pleasantries, Perls encouraged his subjects to explore their emotional responses through processes including the use of ‘hot seats’ through which a person could exchange roles by moving to a different seat where they could act out a different part.