Therapeutic Experiencing: The Process of Change (A Norton professional book)
Author: Alvin R. Mahrer
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 0393700089
ISBN 13: 978-0393700084
This book builds upon the various approaches of experiential psychotherapy to propose a single theory, complete with its own methods of bringing about therapeutic change. Therapeutic experiencing is presented as an efficient and effective means of undergoing the process of deep and substantial change, of bringing fourth the kinds of changes set forth by existential-humanistic conceptualizations of what human beings are like and can become.
Review
This book is important not only for the persons engaged in training for the profession of therapy but also for all those interested in the psychological workings of themselves an their loved ones.... Rollo May --Book Jacket
Once again Al Mahrer has brought his courageous and innovative talents to the task of extending the description of his form of experiential psychotherapy... I am impressed by the combination of good sense, scholarly sophistication, and clinical acumen which illuminates the method and its rationale. James F.T. Bugental --Book Jacket
About the Author
Dr. Mahrer was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. In 1954, he graduated from Ohio State University with a doctorate in clinical psychology, went to work at the VA Hospital in Denver, and became president of the Colorado Psychological Association. In 1967, he became Professor and Clinical Director at Miami University, Ohio, and later, he held the same positions at the University of Waterloo. He became Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Ottawa in 1978. Dr. Mahrer received many awards and acknowledgments throughout his career. In 1975, he was made a fellow of the American Psychological Association. In 1992, he won the Award for Excellence in Research from the University of Ottawa. A session of Dr. Mahrer conducting Experiential Psychotherapy was videotaped for posterity by the APA in their initial series of Psychotherapy Masters in 1992. In 1997, Dr. Mahrer received the Distinguished Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 29. In 2002, Dr. Mahrer won the Living Legend in Psychotherapy Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 29. In 2006, Dr. Mahrer was awarded with the Rollo May Award for Pursuit of New Frontiers from the American Psychological Association, Division 32. Dr. Mahrer wrote over 300 journal articles and 20 books on psychotherapy research, his model of Experiential Psychotherapy, the Experiential model of personality development and transformation and philosophy of science. He continued his work, both in writing and discussion until his death. His final book is in press (2014). His work was his passion, and was the very centre of his life.
