Erving PolsterErving Polster was a Czech psychologist who was a pioneer in Gestalt Therapy.BiographyPolster born on April 13, 1922, in Czechoslovakia. He received his Ph.D. from Western Reserve University in 1950. He founded the Gestalt Training Center in San Diego and has written seven books on Gestalt psychology. His first wife was psychologist Miriam Polster, and they married in 1949 and moved to La Jolla in 1973. Miriam died in 2001, and he married his second wife Rose Lee in 2006. Polster retired from private practice in 1998, but continued writing and consulting work in psychology. Polster died on 22 March 2024, at the age of 101.