- Robi Ludwig
Robi Ludwig is a psychotherapist and host of the reality television program, "One Week to Save Your Marriage" on TLC. Dr. Ludwig holds a doctorate in psychology (Psy.D) from the Southern California University for Professional Studies, … - Fritz Perls
Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls from the 1940s, and he became associated with the Esalen Institute in California in 1964. - Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 115 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997. - Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 - 10 September 1988) was a noted American author and psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy. Her most well-known books are "Conjoint Family Therapy", 1964, "Peoplemaking", 1972, and "The New Peoplemaking", 1988. She is also known for the creating the "Virginia Satir - Change Process Model", this model was developed through clinical studies. - Michael White
Michael White is the founder of Narrative Therapy, which has become one of the prevalent theories used in psychotherapy today. It has also been a source of techniques that have been adopted by other theoretical approaches. Dr. White is a practicing clinician and co-director of the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a family therapist, author of several books of importance in the field of family therapy and Narrative Therapy. - Nathaniel Branden
Nathaniel Branden, né Nathan Blumenthal is a psychotherapist and writer best known today for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A one-time associate of novelist Ayn Rand, Branden had a prominent role in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. - Harville Hendrix
Harville Hendrix is a clinical pastoral counselor who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Theology from the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University. He is the co-founder of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples therapy which he co-developed with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. Hendrix is the author of "Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples" and "Keeping the Love You Find: A Personal Guide". - Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen is a lecturer, writer, and self-described "sexual reorientation coach" who uses sexual reorientation therapy (also called "reparative therapy" or "conversion therapy") to attempt to change gay men into heterosexual men. He has been called one of America's leading practitioners of conversion therapy. He gives lectures and seminars on his ideas, which he published in "Coming Out Straight" (2001) through a vanity book publisher. - Bert Hellinger
The German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger (b. 1925) is among the most well-known, influential and controversial practitioners living in Europe. His primary method is called Family Constellations. Constellations done in a business context, e.g. with teams, are called Organisational Constellations. Structural Constellations contain also elements with abstract expressions such as: "The aim", "The handicap" or "Resources". - Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin David Yalom (* June 13th 1931 in Washington DC), M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist. Dr. Yalom's works have been used as collegiate textbooks and standard reading for psychology students. - Ralph Metzner
Ralph Metzner Ph.D., born 1936 in Germany, is an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass). Dr. Metzner is a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president. CIIS Faculty - Ralph Metzner Dr. - Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips is a British child psychotherapist and essayist. He is known for his books dealing with topics around psychoanalysis - Beverly Engel
Beverly Engel is an MFCT and psychotherapist and the author of eighteen self-help books. She is an expert in the fields of sexual abuse, women's issues, relationships, and sexuality. She has appeared on: CNN, Oprah!, Sally Jesse Raphael, Ricki Lake, and Leeza, and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences throughout the United States and Canada. - Alyce Faye Eichelberger
Alyce Faye Eichelberger Cleese is an American psychotherapist - William Gibson
William Gibson (born 13 November 1914) is a Tony Award-winning American playwright. Gibson's most famous play is "The Miracle Worker" (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play. His other works include "Dinny and the Witches" (1948, revised 1961), … - Frank Pittman
Frank Smith Pittman, III, M.D. (1935 -) is an American psychiatrist and author. He writes a regular column, "Ask Dr. Frank", which appears in "Psychology Today". He is a "widely quoted author" of "Man enough: fathers, sons and the search for masculinity" and "Private Lies: Infidelity and Betrayal of Intimacy". He is also author of books "Grow Up!: How Taking Responsibility Can Make You a Happy Adult", … - Mark Epstein
Mark Epstein, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. As a psychotherapist with a private practice in New York City, contributing editor to "Tricycle: The Buddhist Review" and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University, he is the author of well-respected books including "Thoughts Without a Thinker" and "Going to Pieces without Falling Apart" (ISBN 0-7679-0235-1). - Jay Haley
Jay Douglas Haley, ((July 19, 1923 - February 13, 2007), was a family therapy clinician, and proponent of brief therapy. Prior to his death, he was based in San Diego, California where he was Scholar In Residence at California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. Jay Haley, 83, died peacefully in his sleep on February 13, 2007. - John Rowan
John Rowan is an author, counselor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor who practices Primal integration in England. He has worked with Ken Wilber in exploring Transpersonal psychology. - Arnold Mindell
Arnold Mindell (born 1940) is an American physicist, psychotherapist, writer and the founder of Process Oriented Psychology. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He has written 19 books that have been published in 20 languages. After graduating with a degree in physics from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mindell went to Zurich, Switzerland to continue his studies in physics. - Eugene Gendlin
Eugene T. Gendlin is an American philosopher and psychotherapist who has developed ways of thinking about and working with the implicit. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago where he also taught for many years. He is best known for Focusing and "Thinking at the Edge", two procedures for thinking with more than patterns and concepts, which grew out of his philosophy. Gendlin's philosophy goes beyond relativism and postmodernism. - Bill O'Hanlon
Bill O'Hanlon, M.S., is psychotherapist, prolific author, and popular workshop presenter. He co-developed Solution-Oriented Therapy, a form of Solution focused brief therapy, has authored or co-authored over 20 books (ranging from brief therapy for various clinical topics to "The Lazy Man's Guide to Success"), and has given over one thousand workshop presentations in the United States and abroad. - John Welwood
John Welwood is an American psychotherapist, teacher, and author, known for integrating psychological and spiritual concepts. - Betty Berzon
Betty Berzon (January 18, 1928- January 24, 2006) was an American author and psychotherapist known for her work with the gay and lesbian communities. Berzon was among the first psychotherapists to assist gay and lesbian clients. After coming out as a lesbian in 1968, she began providing therapy to gays and lesbians, and in 1971, … - Gerda Boyesen
Gerda Boyesen (born May 18, 1922 in Bergen, Norway, dead December 29, 2005 in London) is the founder of Biodynamic Psychology, a branch of Body Psychotherapy. - Jeanne Safer
Jeanne Safer, Ph.D., is an author and influential American psychotherapist. She has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader, Self, New Woman and other publications. She has also authored the following books in psychotherapy: * "Beyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Children" * "Forgiving and not Forgiving: Why sometimes it's better not to forgive" * "The Normal One" Safer lives in Manhattan with her husband, Richard Brookhiser, … - Phyllis Chesler
Phyllis Chesler (born October 1 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is known as a feminist psychologist, and is the author of thirteen books, including the best-seller "Women and Madness", and the recent publications "The Death of Feminism" and "The New Anti-Semitism". - Phillip Hodson
Phillip Hodson is a British psychotherapist, broadcaster and author who popularised ‘phone-in’ therapy in his role as Britain's first 'agony uncle'. His afternoon and evening counselling programmes ran on LBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years. Thereafter he worked on Talk Radio and with Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2. - Stanton Peele
Stanton Peele, Ph. D., J.D., (born January 8, 1946) is a licensed psychologist, attorney, practicing psychotherapist and the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and treatment. His contribution to the field of alcoholism has won him several awards including the 1994 Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship, from the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, … - Fred Newman
Fred Newman is a philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist, the creator of therapeutic modality called Social Therapy. Born in 1935 in the Bronx, New York, Newman grew up in a Jewish, working-class neighborhood. He served in the Army, including a stint in Korea, and later enrolled in The City College of New York on a G.I. Bill scholarship. Newman received his Ph.D. in analytic philosophy and foundations of mathematics from Stanford University in 1962. - Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (January 4, 1915 - February 17, 1998), the daughter of an Austrian baron and born in Munich, Germany, was a Swiss Jungian Psychologist and scholar. She worked with Carl Jung whom she met in 1933 and knew until his death in 1961. She founded the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. As a psychotherapist, she is said to have interpreted over 65,000 dreams, primarily practicing in Kusnacht, Switzerland. She wrote over 20 volumes on Analytical psychology, … - Michael J. Hurd
Michael J. Hurd is an American psychotherapist, broadcast radio show host, author, public speaker, and commentator. He is an Objectivist. As of 2005, his practice and offices are located in Ocean View, Delaware in the United States. - Camila Batmanghelidjh
Camila Batmanghelidjh Founder of children's charity Kids Company Windows media: - Robert M. Young
Robert Maxwell Young, usually known as Robert M. Young or Bob Young (born 26th September, 1935 in Highland Park, a suburb of Dallas, Texas), is a historian of science specialising in the 19th century and particularly Darwinian thought, a philosopher of the biological and human sciences, and a Kleinian psychotherapist. Young's initial education was in the United States, at Yale University and the University of Rochester Medical School, … - Arthur Janov
Arthur Janov (born August 21, 1924) is an American psychologist and psychotherapist, and the creator of Primal Therapy. Janov directs a psychotherapy institute called the Primal Center in Venice, California, USA. He is the author of twelve books, including "The Primal Scream", which claimed that mental illness could be eliminated by a therapy that consists of repeatedly descending into, feeling, and expressing long-repressed childhood pain. - Connie Booth
Constance Booth (known as "Connie"), born 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, is an American writer and actress best known for her appearances on British television, and particularly for her work with John Cleese. - Sue Gerhardt
Sue Gerhardt is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and the author of "Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain". The book presents evidence that babies' brains develop differently in the first few months of life depending on the amount and type of care they receive in that time. The evidence suggests that the pre-frontal cortex and, within that, … - Sidra Stone
Sidra Stone, Ph.D., (born April 15, 1937) is an American author, psychotherapist and the co-creator of Voice Dialogue. Stone was born Sidra Levi in Brooklyn, New York. She received a B.A. from Barnard in 1957 and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1962. She was the Executive Director of Hamburger Home, residential treatment center for adolescent girls, from 1972 to 1979. - Steve de Shazer
Steve de Shazer (June 25, 1940, Milwaukee - September 11, 2005, Vienna) was a psychotherapist, author, and developer and pioneer of solution focused brief therapy. In 1978, he founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Insoo Kim Berg. He wrote six significant books, translated into 14 languages; wrote many papers; and lectured internationally. De Shazer was originally trained as a classical musician and worked as a jazz saxophonist. - David Boadella
David Boadella (born 1931) is a psychotherapist and founder of a direction within body psychotherapy called biosynthesis, and the author of numerous books. Boadella has studied education, psychology and literature. He holds the following degrees: B.A., M.Ed., Dr.h.c., psychotherapist SPV and UKCP. He underwent five years of training analysis under Reichian vegetotherapist Ola Raknes in Oslo, Norway, …
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