Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Hefferline R. In 1942 he joined the South African army and served as an army psychiatrist with the rank of captain until 1946. Perls has been widely cited outside the realm of psychotherapy for a quotation often described as the "Gestalt prayer".

Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893 – March 14 1970) better known as Fritz Perls was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. Relationship is emphasized along with contact between the self its environment and the other. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in 1964 and he lived there until 1969.