Abstract:Wertheimer, the visionary psychologist who led the development of Gestalt psychology, and Anni Caro Wertheimer. He came to the United States in 1933 as his Jewish family fled the Holocaust, from which not even his father's international reputation could protect them.Although we may consider 1951 to be the start of Professor Wertheimer's career as a teacher-scholar-the year he published his first peer-reviewed articles (Garner & Wertheimer, 1951;Wertheimer, 1951)-his interactions with the teaching of psychology… Show more
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