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Book Descriptions
How Psychotherapy Can Become
A Science
Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D.
In How Psychotherapy Can Become A Science, Dr. Alvin Mahrer shares his passion for moving psychotherapy forward as he challenges his readers to consider several possible ways for psychotherapy to join what he refers to as “the real sciences”. Like most paradigm shifts, this volume speaks to the entire field, from practitioners of the art and science to teachers and supervisors, from researchers to theorists, from trainees to professionals. Will the field listening – is an answer attainable?
For Mahrer change is inevitable as he explores several options to discover how this field called psychotherapy can open its doors and take advantage of the possibilities that can make it more of a science like other sciences?
Spiral-bound: 151 pages
2007
ISBN-10: 978-0-968186
Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
Weight: 9.6 ounces
The Manual of Optimal Behaviors
By Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D.
This is a working manual to help one learn and practice optimal behaviors. Within the pages of this book you will learn how to study, engage and practice specific optimal behaviors. Following this path, one creates a whole new world and with the goal of enhancing one’s potential as a human being. Consider this manual as a reference guide that illustrates and presents a series of practical exercises toward learning a broader rang of optimal behaviours. Following these exercises one’s abilities toward becoming an optimal person. That is, to elevate and experience a qualitatively higher state being by introducing a series of new behaviors comprised of distinctive and unique characteristics.
In this way, learning optimal behaviors can free one self from old patterns, liberating oneself, letting go of or eliminating behaviors which have been illusory, false, ineffective, lame, weak and no longer helpful. Welcome the possibilities of introducing the transformative qualities of optimal behaviours – with the direction toward becoming an optimal person.
Topics include:
An Experiential List Of Optimal Behaviors
Learning to benefits of Optimal Behaviors
Have Experiential Sessions
Learning & Practicing exercises involving Optimal Behaviors
Paperback: 372 pages
2008
ISBN - 9780968186527
Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
12.8 ounces
The Optimal Person
By Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D.
For thousands of years, human beings have searched for a path toward becoming more of the person they can be. Whether this is called enlightenment, satori, nirvana, or awakening, For Dr. Alvin Mahrer, this is called the quest to becoming an optimal person. In other words, this is a state of full realization of one’s potential as a human being. It is reference to having learned a series of positive qualities and human strengths or of having a broader rang of positive qualities and human strengths. A qualitatively higher state being comprised distinctive and characteristics or a series of specific actions Mahrer calls “optimal behaviors.” To become an optimal person suggests freeing oneself, emptying or eliminating the myriads of illusory, false, unreal things of external and internal worlds. Consider the possibilities in this theoretical discussion about optimal behaviour – the first part in a two volume series on the subject. The Manual of Optimal Behaviors is the companion volume.
Topics include:
What is a Optimal Person
Ways Of Becoming Optimal
What Are Some Exciting Possibilities If We Could
Achieve An Optimal State?
Defining Optimal Behaviors
Paperback: 274 pages
2009
ISBN - 9780968186534
Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
12.8 ounces
What Is Psychotherapy For?
An Alternative To The Profession of Psychotherapy
By Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D.
Today psychotherapy is a big business. Practitioners have contributed to building an infrastructure of security and self reinforcement. Most of the current issues or problems that psychotherapy addresses have been conceived, created, categorized and maintained by psychotherapists. Could it be that these issues exist more in the mind of the profession rather than in the person who is seeking assistance for the problem? In this exciting new book, Dr. Alvin R. Mahrer, addresses issues related to what psychotherapy has been and suggest bringing the profession of psychotherapy to a close. He discusses and outlines how to replace psychotherapy with a innovative new profession based on a revolutionary new answer to the question - What is Psychotherapy For?
Topics include;
What Are Some Serious Problems With The Professional Guidelines For How To Do Psychotherapy?
What Are Some Problems With The Idea Of 'Problems'?
Which Is Better - Starting With 'Scene Of Strong Feeling' Or Starting With The Mental Disorder/Problem?
Paperback - 265 pages
2010
ISBN: 9780968186541
Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
10.4 ounces
The Origin Of A Person
By Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D.
The experiential approach has little or nothing in common with other approaches to the origin of a person. It is a new departure.
The infant-child is the complete creation of the parents who (a) create the infant-child to be what is important to the parents for the infant-child to be, and who (b) create the infant-child out of the parents’ own qualities and characteristics.
The transformation consists of (a) the complete creation of an infant-child who is what is important to the parents for the infant-child to be, and who is (b) created out of the parents’ own qualities and characteristics.
Topics
The Origin Of A Person
How Can Philosophy Of Science & the Origin Of A Person?
Pioneering Ideas About The Origin Of A Person
The Experiential Picture Of The Origin Of A Person
What Changes Ordinarily Occur Over The Course Of Life?
Paperback: 181 pages
2010
ISBN - 9780968186565
Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
11.2 ounces
Coming soon......
Transformation: A Glimpse Into
The Future Of How Change
Will Come About
By Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D.
By definition the word ‘transformation’ suggests an impressive change in the very nature or appearance of something. In a psychological sense – transformation is a premium way of attaining a complete and comprehensive change in your very nature. Picture the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog. The change is all-embracing and powerful.
For Dr. Alvin Mahrer - one can become a completely new person – a totally different individual – unrecognizable from what one was before transformation. In this sense - transformation can be the impetus toward individual progress and the advancement of the entire human civilization.
‘Transformation’ will introduce you to a new way that change can come about. It brings models of caterpillars and butterflies, darkness transforming into light or the frog transforming into the prince. The bottom line is a qualitative movement from a minus to a plus situation.
Here are some ways to undergo transformati
ü Have experiential sessions.
ü Replace your ordinary behaviour with optimal behaviour, and enter the optimal state
ü Re-create the origin of a person: Put the current feeling in the early context, and act it out, celebrate it.
ü Re-create the origin of a person: In the remembered early scene, discover a deeper potential for experiencing, and act it out, celebrate it.
ü Re-create the origin of a person: Go back into some early scene, do what you could-should have done that could have altered you and the course of your life.
Paperback:
2011
ISBN - 9780968186589
Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
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