1933 - the background of the emerging gestalt approach

This work is devoted to determining the factors of the emergence of the Gestalt approach as a sociocultural phenomenon in the twentieth individual ethics. Through the personal history of the author, the influence of socio-political processes taking place in Germany from 1933 to 1934 is shown. The life of Frederick and Laura Perls in Holland (Amsterdam) is reflected against the background of events taking place in their homeland and aimed at the oppression of Jews. The period of a sharp transition to the dictatorship of the Nazi regime and the embodiment of the ideas of the "Special German Way". It is traced which processes could determine some of the fundamental principles of the gestalt approach: vitality, freedom and awareness, responsibility and spontaneity.