:confused:Fritz Perls joined the German Army during World War I, and spent time in the trenches. After the war he graduated as a medical doctor, and became an assistant to Kurt Goldstein, who worked with brain injured soldiers. Perls gravitated toward psychoanalysis. He had an brief and unsatifactory meeting with Freud, and went through an analysis with Wilhelm Reich.
In 1930 Fritz married Laura Perls (born, Lore Posner), and they had two children together, Renate and Stephen. In 1933, soon after the Hitler regime came to power, Fritz Perls, Laura and their eldest child Renate fled to the Netherlands, and one year later they emigrated to South Africa, where Fritz started a psychoanalytic training institute. In 1942 Fritz joined the South African army, and served as an army psychiatrist with the rank of captain, until 1946




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