ABSTRACT
True to the pattern of many geniuses, Fritz Perls was an unusual person who did not fit into society. He was not afraid to flaunt his difference, and did so whenever he could. With the "1968 revolution" Perls was finally "discovered" by a journalist and made the front page of Life magazine. When he was 33, Perls began his first psychoanalysis, with Karen Horney. She would continue to support him throughout his life, and welcomed him to New York, twenty years later. Two years later, the rupture took place: Perls traveled to the <italics>International Psychoanalytic Conference</italics> in Marienbad, where he gave a paper on oral resistances. In New York, he resumes a bohemian lifestyle, similar to that of his youth. He frequents "left-wing intellectuals," writers and "New Age" theatrical people. He is a regular at the <italics>Living Theatre</italics>, which advocates immediate expression of feelings, via direct, spontaneous contact with the public, and prefers improvisation to traditional rote learning and rehearsals.
