Frederick (Fritz) Solomon Perls (1893–1970) is an outstanding psychologist and psychotherapist, a legendary figure in world psychology, the founder of Gestalt therapy. The book “Inside and Outside the Trash Can”, published for the first time in Russian, is a kind of autobiography of Perls, interspersed with his poetic , philosophical, historical sketches, always leading to one goal - to awaken a person, reveal his potential and make possible what seemed impossible just yesterday. The second part of this publication - “Workshop on Gestalt Therapy” - is one of the most successful works in this direction, containing a rich a selection of psychological exercises that allow one to appreciate the uniqueness of Perls’s psychotherapeutic approach - an approach addressed to the modern problems of modern man.