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Alfred Adler (1870-1937)

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Adler was born in Vienna, the third of six children. His childhood was marked by difficulty, namely: neglect as a middle child, suffering from rickets, witnessing his brother’s death due to illness, and being run over twice in the streets. Despite this, he excelled in math, and studied medicine when he attended the University of Vienna. Aside from a stretch when he served as a doctor in WWI, he practiced psychology, and founded the school of “individual psychology”. He believed in the effect of birth-order, (needless to say) and developed a set of traits based on the subject’s relative position in the birth-order. He opened many child guidance clinics in Austria, but by 1932 most had been closed due to his Jewish ancestry. He decided to immigrate to the United States, and settled at the Long Island College of Medicine. He died on May 28th, of a heart attack, in Aberdeen, Scotland, while on a speaking tour. While his death was a blow to the school of thought he had pioneered, many of his ideas were taken up by “neo-Freudians”. His teachings and ideas are still practiced and taught a various Institutes set up in his honour.

Alfried Längle

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Alfried Längle, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. h.c., was born in Austria in 1951. He studied medicine and psychology at the Universities of Innsbruck, Rome, Toulouse and Vienna.

After years of hospital work in general medicine, psychiatry and in an outpatient department of social psychiatry, he started a private practice in psychotherapy, general medicine and clinical psychology in Vienna in 1982.

During that same year he came into close collaboration with Viktor Frankl (1983-1991). He assisted Frankl’s lectures at the university and worked with him in many relevant fields of Logotherapy.

Längle is the founder and president of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna). Viktor Frankl was the society’s honorary president until 1990, at which time he resigned because of Längle’s new developments in the field of existential analysis (methods, implication of existential self-experience in the training seminars, rejecting the exclusive use of the meaning paradigm in psychotherapy by implementing also the biographical access).

Längle is a constant lecturer at the Universities of Vienna (since 1984), Innsbruck (1994), Graz (1995), Moscow and Buenos Aires (2000). He also founded the training school of Existential-Analytical Psychotherapy, which is stately approved in Austria, Switzerland, Tchek Republic and Rumania.

In 2000 Längle got a honorary doctor’s degree in recognition of his developments in the field of existential analysis from the medical faculty of the university of Temesvar.

Längle was also editor and co-editor of the Journal Existenzanalyse.

Publications:

(2000) Sinnspuren. Dem Leben antworten. St.Pölten: NP-Verlag
(2000) Praxis der Personalen Existenzanalyse. Wien: Facultas (Ed.)
(2000) Ich kann nicht… Behinderung als menschliches Phänomen. Wien: Facultas (Ed. with K. Rühl)
(1999) Existenzskala. (Together with Orgler Ch., Kundi M.) Göttingen: Hogrefe
(1988) Entscheidung zum Sein. München: Piper. (Ed.)
(1998) Viktor Frankl. Ein Porträt. München: Piper. (also in spanish translation 2000)
(1997) Süchtig sein. Entstehung, Formen und Behandlung von Abhängigkeiten. Wien: Facultas. (Ed. with Ch. Probst)
(1985) Wege zum Sinn. München: Piper. (Ed.)

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Carl Jung

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Jung’s unique and broadly influential approach to psychology emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, much of his life’s work was spent exploring other realms: Eastern vs. Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung also emphasized the importance of balance and harmony. He cautioned that modern humans rely too heavily on science and logic and would benefit from integrating spirituality and appreciation of the unconscious realm. Jungian ideas are not typically included in curriculum of most major universities’ psychology departments, but are occasionally explored in humanities departments.

Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

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Carl Ransom Rogers is best known as the founder of ‘client-centred’ or ‘non-directive’ therapy. He was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois. Rogers was the fourth of six children, born to a father that was a successful civil engineer and a mother that was a housewife and devout Christian.

He initially went to the University of Wisconsin to major in agriculture, but switched his focus to religion. After graduation he married Helen Elliot and moved to New York City, where he began attending a famous liberal religious institution called Union Theological Seminary. His time at the seminary was short and he soon switched to the clinical psychology program at Columbia University, receiving his PhD in 1931.

Rogers began clinical work at the Rochester society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and learned about Otto Rank’s theory and therapy techniques. This experience enabled him to start developing his own approach.

In 1940 Rogers was offered a full professorship at Ohio State. By 1945 he was invited to set up a counseling centre at the University of Chicago, and while there he published his major work, Client-Centred Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory, wherein he outlines his basic theory.

Rogers accepted a position in the Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin in 1957, but quickly became disillusioned with higher education due to conflicts within the department. By 1964 he was happy to leave the University for a research position in La Jolla, California. It was there that he provided therapy, gave speeches and wrote until his death in 1987.

Published Works

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotheraphy by Carl R. Rogers, Peter Kramer (Introduction) (Paperback – September 1995)
A Way of Being by Carl R. Rogers, Irvin D. Yalom (Introduction) (Paperback – September 1995)
Measuring Personality Adjustment in Children: Nine to Thirteen Years of Age (Columbia University Teachers College. Contributions to Education, No 45) by Carl R. Rogers (Hardcover – June 1977)
Man and the Science of Man by William R. Coulson, Carl R. Rogers (Hardcover – June 1968)
A Dialogue on the Control of Human Behavior by Carl Rogers, B. F. Skinner (Audio Cassette – June 1976)
Freedom to Learn by Carl R. Rogers, H. Jerome Freiberg
Carl Rogers’ Some thoughts regarding the current philosophy of the behavioral sciences, Special Fall, 1965 Issue of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.

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Elisabeth Lukas

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Elisabeth Lukas studied psychology and psychotherapy at the Viennese University under the supervision of Dr. Giselher Guttmann and Dr. Viktor E. Frankl. In 1972, she completed her dissertation, Logotherapy as a Personality Theory, and moved with her family to Germany, where she still resides today.

In 1973, she began work in counseling centres, later becoming the director of a counseling center in Munich, a position she held for nine years. In 1996, she founded he South German Institute of Logotherapy; she has remained the Director of the Institute since its inception.

She has written 22 books (which have been translated into 11 languages) about the application and further development of logotherapy, and has taught at 50 universities in several countries. In 1991 she was honoured by Santa Clara University for “Outstanding Contributions in Counseling Psychology to the World Community.” Dr. Lukas is seen as “the leading protégée of Viktor E. Frankl.”

Publications

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Emmy van Deurzen

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Emmy van Deurzen, Lic.Phil., Lic.Psy, M.Phil., M.Psy., C.Psychol., AFBPsS, UKCP reg, is a key figure in meaning centered therapy and has laid a foundation that many existential psychotherapists follow.

She is a chartered counseling psychologist and a registered existential psychotherapist. Emmy van Deurzen is the founder and director of The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, based in Waterloo, London, which is validated by the University of Sheffield. She is also the founder and past chair for the Society for Existential Analysis.

She created the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College in London, where she was given a chair in psychotherapy and counseling. She is also the past chair of the UKCP.

She is widely published on existential psychotherapy and counselling. Her most recent book is Everyday Mysteries (Routledge 1997).

Publications

(1998) Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy : An Existential Approach to Therapy and Counselling (Wiley Series in Existential Perspectives on Psychotherapy).
(1987) Existential Counselling in Practice.

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Ernesto Spinelli

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Professor Ernesto Spinelli is a practising existential psychotherapist and the Academic Dean of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London which is the principal centre for the analysis and development of existential-phenomenological thought and practice as applied to the related fields of psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology. Professor Spinelli is Past Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis and of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology. He is a registered existential psychotherapist, and accredited counsellor and a Chartered Counselling Psychologist.

He has gained an international reputation for his exposition of various key issues in existential-phenomenological inquiry, most notable with regard to the question of the development of the self-construct, the relational realms within the psychotherapeutic relationship and the inter-subjective factors which inform an existential theory of human sexuality. For these, and other, original contributions, Professor Spinelli was awarded a Personal Chair in Psychotherapy Counselling and Counselling Psychology in 1998.

Among his many papers and publications, Professor Spinelli’s The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology (Sage, 1989); Demystifying Therapy (Constable, 1994) and Tales of Un-knowing: therapeutic encounters from an existential perspective (Duckworth (UK) and New York University Press (US)) have been widely admired for their clarity and originality of argument.

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Irvin Yalom

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“I was born in Washington, D.C., June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia (from a small village named Celtz near the Polish border) shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington—a small apartment atop my parents’ grocery store on First and Seaton Street. During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor, black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge and, twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

“No counseling or direction was available: my parents had virtually no secular education, never read books and were entirely consumed in the struggle for economic survival. My book choices were capricious, directed in part by the library architecture; the large, centrally placed bookcase on biography caught my attention early, and I spent an entire year going through that bookcase from A (John Adams) to Z (Zoroaster). But it was mainly in fiction where I found a refuge, an alternate, more satisfying world, a source of inspiration and wisdom. Sometime early in life I developed the notion—one which I have never relinquished—that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

“To the ghetto mentality of my day, career choices for young men were limited or perceived as limited. All of my peers either went into medical school or into business with their fathers. Medical school seemed closer to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, and I entered upon my medical training already having decided to go into psychiatry. Psychiatry. Then, in an effort to teach aspects of Existential Therapy I turned to a literary conveyance and in the past several years have written a book of therapy tales (Love’s Executioner), two teaching novels (When Nietzsche Wept and Lying on the Couch) and, my last book, Momma and the Meaning of Life (a collection of true and fictionalized tales of therapy).

“Though these books have been best sellers to a general audience and have been reviewed often—both favorably and unfavorably—on their literary merit (When Nietzsche Wept won the Commonwealth Gold Medal for best fiction of 1993), I intended them as pedagogical works—books of teaching stories and a new genre—the teaching novel. They have been widely translated—each into about fifteen to twenty languages—and have had considerable distribution abroad. When Nietzsche Wept, for example, was on the top of the Israeli best seller list for over four years. An anthology, The Yalom Reader, was published by Basic books at the end of 1997. In addition to key excerpts from each of my other books it contains several new personal essays which provide introductions for mental health professionals to Love’s Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept and Lying on the Couch. Currently I am working on a novel about Schopenhauer.

“My wife, Marilyn, received a Ph. D. in comparative literature (French and German) from Johns Hopkins and has had a highly successful career as a University Professor and writer (most recently A History of the Breast (Knopf) and is currently writing History of the Wife. My four Children, all living in San Francisco Bay area, have chosen a variety of careers—medicine, photography, creative writing, theater directing, clinical psychology. Five grandchildren and counting.”

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James Bugental

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Bugental’s influence maybe isn’t as well known as that of Rollo May and Viktor Frankl, but it is no less significant. Bugental, himself, was influenced greatly by May. In fact, it was May’s influence that led Bugental to what he calls and existential humanistic approach to therapy. While Bugental contributed some significant writing and theory development to existential thought, more important is the video tapes on which Bugental is featured. These videos provide excellent therapy illustrations of what this approach to therapy looks like.

Professor Emeritus, Saybrook Institute
Curriculum Vita
Psychotherapy and Process: The Fundamentals of an Existential-Humanistic Approach (Summary)
James Bugental’s Introduction to the Special Fall, 1965 Issue of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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Jeffrey K. Zeig

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Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., is founder and Director of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. He has edited, coedited, authored, or his work is the subject of 14 professional books and 5 monographs covering Ericksonian psychotherapy, hypnosis, brief therapy and eclectic psychotherapy. Dr. Zeig is the architect of the Brief Therapy and the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences. He is organizer of the six International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Zeig is on the Editorial Board of a number of journals and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 29, Psychotherapy), Fellow and Approved Consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and an Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He conducts workshops internationally (more than 30 countries) and primarily teaches Ericksonian approaches.

Publications

Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy by Jeffrey K. Zeig
(1998) Developing Ericksonian Therapy: State of the Art by Jeffrey K. Zeig, Stephen R. Lankton
(2001) Changing Directives: The Strategic Psychotherapy of Jay Haley by Jay Haley (Editor), Jeffrey K. Zeig (Editor)
What Is Psychotherapy?: Contemporary Perspectives (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series) by Jeffrey K. Zeig, W. Michael Munion (Editor)
(1996) The Evolution of Psychotherapy: The Third Conference by Jeffrey K. Zeig (Editor)
(1994) Ericksonian psychotherapy: The essence of the story. Brunner/Mazel.
(1990) Brief therapy: Myths, methods and metaphors. Brunner/Mazel.
(1985) Experiencing Erickson. (Translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Portuguese; Russian translation in progress.). Brunner/Mazel.
(1980) A teaching seminar with Milton H. Erickson. (Also wrote commentary & translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish; French translation in progress.) Brunner/Mazel.

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Alfred Adler (1870-1937)

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Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

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Elisabeth Lukas

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Emmy van Deurzen

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Ernesto Spinelli

Irvin Yalom

James Bugental

Jeffrey K. Zeig

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