Articles by Bob
Interview with Irv Yalom
AHP Perspective
April-May 2007Over the last half century, Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., has been one of the pioneers and leaders in developing existential psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psychotherapy-based literature ...
An Existential Humanistic View of the Current U.S. Political Situation
AHP Perspective
October-November 2004Crisis in the ideogramic written language of Chinese is made of the signs for danger and opportunity. Crisis provides the opportunity for change and growth as well as for regression or stagnation. I think it is a fitting symbol for these times ...
Interview with Jim Bugental, AHP’s First President
AHP Perspective
February-March 2003James F. T. Bugental, Ph.D., is a renowned existential-humanistic psychotherapist. At 87, he is an esteemed elder. He is the author of numerous books, including The Search for Authenticity, The Search for Existential Identity, and The Art of The Psychotherapist ...
Gaining the Existential Humanistic Perspective: A Tribute to Carl Rogers & AHP
AHP Perspective
June-July 2002I read Freedom to Learn by Carl Rogers in 1971, and my life dramatically changed. He stated that each of us knows what is best for ourselves, and what the good life is. He said the best way to discover your truth is to give a central focus and value to what you experience in your inner life ...
The Existential Humanistic Perspective as Applied to Couple’s Therapy
Oregon Association of Marriage & Family Newsletter
Summer 1995The Existential Humanistic perspective involves the exploration of how we can live our lives more consciously. This perspective explores an unfolding process of discovering oneself. It assumes we are responsible for how we exist in the world and how we respond to the conditions presented to us ...
The Existential Humanistic Perspective in Therapy
Oregon Association of Marriage & Family Newsletter
Spring 1995Ever since I read Freedom to Learn by Carl Rogers in 1971, I have been attracted to and passionate about the Existential Humanistic perspective in therapy. This perspective focuses on the exploration of our existence, with the aid of a therapist, for the purpose of clarifying, defining, creating and re-creating what we want our life to be and to become. This therapy explores what it means to be human ...
Does Psychotherapy Work? Beyond "Sick" vs. "Well" - From Compartments to Continuum
Reflections Magazine Directory
Spring 1994Our culture has the tendency to label, dichotomize, compartmentalize and objectify. For example, we are either "sick" or "well". Treatment of illness is for the sick person. Personal growth is for those who are well. Being sick is judged as bad, being well is judged as well. A way to break out of these confining categories is to view existence as a continuum ...