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“So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second”

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Frederick Salomon Perls

Frederick Salomon Perls, born on July 8, 1893, in Germany, and died on March 14, 1970, in the United States, was a prominent psychiatrist and one of the founders of existential-humanistic psychology. He made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and psychotherapy, particularly in the areas of psychological treatment and theories of self-actualization. more

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