Bandler helped publisher Robert S. Spitzer (of Science and Behavior Books, Inc.) edit The Gestalt Approach (1973) based on a manuscript by gestalt therapist Fritz Perls (who had died in 1970). He also assisted with checking transcripts for Eye Witness to Therapy (1973).[8] According to Spitzer, "[Bandler] came out of it talking and acting like Fritz Perls."[9] While a student at UCSC, Bandler also
