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He was expected to practice law like his distinguished uncle Herman Staub, but instead he studied medicine.

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 a brief and unsatisfactory meeting with Freud, and went through an analysis with Wilhelm Reich.