Max Wertheimer: Biography of the Founder of Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt psychology is the basis on which human beings understand and react to the world around them. Today, we’ll review the life and work of Max Wertheimer, a brilliant psychologist and one of its founding fathers. Continue reading to learn more. Max Wertheimer was the first to study perceptual organization. Wertheimer’s approach to the way we perceive the world was to look at things as a whole. This means that he suggested that the whole was much more than its parts. Consequently, his work created an important basis for psychological theory. In addition to contributing to the creation of the…