Read Dr. Alvin Mahrer's
New Books from 2007 & 2008
How Psychotherapy Can Become A Science
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The Other Deeper You
More Here
Coming Soon for 2008
"The Manual of Optimal Behaviors"
"The Optimal Person"
Welcome to the first comprehensive internet information site dedicated to the teachings, and therapeutic practices as developed by Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D (University of Ottawa). Dr. Mahrer's approach is known as Experiential Psychotherapy.
Alvin R. Mahrer is Professor Emeritus of the school of Psychology, University of Ottawa. He is also the author of 17 books and more than 300 other publications.
Alvin Mahrer has been...
The recipient of the Rollo May Award for Pursuit of New Frontiers - APA Division 32 (2006)
Is one of four recipients in the first "Living Legends in Psychotherapy "by the APA's Division of Psychotherapy (2002).
Has received the Award for Excellence in Research in 1992 from the University of Ottawa.
In 1989, Al Mahrer wrote:
"We spend our entire lives in continuous resistance to the encroaching deeper potential. The person who discovers that the way out is through the very doorway he has desperately avoided in each critical moment has entered a whole new world of exhilarating freedom and self-determination."
Mahrer on Experiential Psychotherapy
Experiential psychotherapy does not aim at reducing or resolving problems. It's directions of change include the washing away of bad feelings of pain, hurt, suffering; the ending of scenes of bad feelings; no longer does the person behave in ways that construct and use the situational context to undergo painful experiencing accompanied with bad feelings.
The Complete Guide to Experiential Psychotherapy
(1996) P.102.
Dr.Mahrer's current books are:
How Psychotherapy Can Become A Science
Howard Gontovnick (2007)
The Other Deeper You
University of Ottawa Press (2007).
The Creation of New Ideas in Psychotherapy:
A Guidebook - PCCS Books (2006)
New Discussion Forum - See "The Other Deeper You" section.
A Personal thought - By Howard Gontovnick
In March 1996, Al Mahrer wrote a brief but memorable comment in my copy of "The Complete Guide to Experiential Psychotherapy." The inscription says - "I hope you and I can talk much more about this therapy - and that you take it further than I have."
In hindsight, his words have always served as a kind of challenge and source of inspiration not just to learn and practice his experiential psychotherapy - but more so as a creative platform from which to go further. I like to think of his words as a challenge to consider the wider implications to bring about powerful revolutionary changes in what I do and essential what I can be.
This web site will serve as a focal point for Dr.Mahrer's work and at the same time - an invitation for one to seriously consider stepping outside their usual perceptions and beliefs with the goal of discovering that which is deeper within each one of us. Whether as a psychotherapist, teacher or individual, each one of us has the ability to transform from what we are - and move toward what one can be. As such, I think we should consider Mahrer's work as an important platform to embark on that inner journey to become all that one can become.
Howard Gontovnick / 2006.
Ph.D. candidate Concordia University
Montreal, Qc, Canada
"In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him til he cried out in his anger and his shame
I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains
Yes he still remains....."
From: The Boxer - By Paul Simon/Art Garfunkel
PLEASE NOTE
This web site is currently under construction and certain features may not be available at this time.
HG
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