FRITZ PERLS, SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND NEURO-SEMANTICS

One of the books that I reread as I prepared for the very first Self-Actualization Psychology training and diploma was the last book by Fritz Perls and the one that got young Richard Bandler involved in transcribing— The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy. I wrote about it in the Morpheus #47 (Oct. 31, 2012). Now that book was transcribed a year or two after Perls died (which was January 1970) and during the time when the first Human Potential Movement was still in its heyday. So one of the things I reread the book to look for was little glimmers of comments about the Human Potential Movement and its influence or affect on NLP given this was the book that got Bandler involved in the first place. Here’s what I found.