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Abstract: Throughout History, prior to the establishment of Psychology within the scientific
framework, there have been many movements, disciplines and philosophies from different
cultures (not always related ones to each others) that have used the term "polarity" or “duality”
as the basis of its own theoretical framework and its own way of understanding the world and
nature. This paper provides a brief summary of all of them, relating similarities and differences,
and highlighting the elements of Gestalt Therapy, devised by Fritz Perls, who took borrowed
from them (such as zen buddhism and freudian psychoanalysis) and thus form its own theoretical
framework.