ABSTRACT
Friedrich Perls, later known as Fritz, was born into a wealthy family in Berlin on July 8, 1893. He spent his childhood in the Jewish ghetto of the Berlin suburbs and was given a very typical education: he describes himself as a rebellious child from the start. 4 He soon realized the difficulty of being accepted into any form of society: his education was too liberal for the orthodox Jewish ghetto and yet as a Jew he was rejected by bourgeois German society. In 1898, his family moved to a fashionable area in the center of Berlin, but difficulties with their neighbors continued.
