Erving Polster is a psychologist born on April 13, 1922, in Czechoslovakia who is a pioneer in Gestalt Therapy. 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. Miram 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.[1] [2] [3]