 On the one hand, Laura Perls preferred not to use the term "Gestalt" to name the emerging new therapy, because she thought that the Gestalt psychologists would object to it; on the other hand Fritz and Laura Perls clearly adopted some of Goldstein's work.Thus, though recognizing the historical connection and the influence, most Gestalt psychologists emphasize that Gestalt therapy is not a form of Gestalt psychology.Mary Henle noted in her presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association (1975)