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Like many important movements in science, Gestalt psychology was born of a revolt against the in tellectual establishment of its time. To day several concepts that Gestalt the orists proposed early in this century have been incorporated into modern understanding of perception, learning and thought-indeed into our very lan guage and culture. Many people have heard the phrase" the whole Gestalt" or have seen pictures that demonstrate Gestalt principles, such as the one that looks now like a vase, now like two profiles face to face. But few outside of academic psychology know what the movement was about or what has hap pened to the ideas on which it was based.