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ADPCA Reader

Carol Wolter-Gustafson

The Boston ADPCA meeting was a rich and expansive experience for me. From the first stages of creating a working team, including education students from Lesley College, to reaching out to other practioners from fields of expressive arts, mind/bodywork, organizational change, mediation and others, up to and including cleaning up after the last community meeting, I continuously learned from and treasured the contributions made by those collaborators. There were disappointments for me. There were some interdisciplinary connections that I had hoped to make, that will need to be cultivated for our next meetings. The richness was evidenced in the 40 diverse and thought-body provoking presentations made. We are grateful to all our presenters. I am always fascinated by the lived-experience of our community group. This year’s group dealt with depth and stuggle with the tension in ourselves and in our life together, between our rights and responsibilities and our personal freedom and active honoring of the community. We go on learning...

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One of the tasks I took on was the creation of a collection of writing from our most prolific authors. I wondered which of their articles had the most personal significance. The project grew. I have included the introduction to the volume and the table of contents. We printed 100 copies and have 30 still available. They can be shipped within the USA for just $5. Outside the USA costs vary. The cost of producing them is an estimate, but at the conference we placed the "cover costs, we hope" price at $20 and asked people to donate more if possible. These funds get recycled back to ADPCA, which is in need of support.

The books are thick with riches from 24 authors all of whom were gracious, cooperative and well worth reading. THANK YOU AGAIN, DEAR AUTHORS.

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Dear Reader,

This collection is meant to honor some of the wonderful written contributions to theory, research and poetic expression created by members of our ADPCA community. I am always looking for ways to share the wealth of writing that often seems a step removed from easy access.

The seed for this project was planted in some conversations with Jules Seeman as we discussed the personal meanings that motivate research and writing. I thought, I could ask a few of our beloved seasoned authors to reflect on their body of work and select a favorite piece of writing and tell us why it is significant. Simple. I’ll Xerox them, maybe even bind the collection and if I run into expenses, I can ask for some money to cover the costs. It may even inspire more of us to write. Thats where the simplicity ended. The list of authors to be asked, kept growing. The costs kept mounting. After some difficulties with fax transmissions, I had to face the limits of my situation, and realize that people like Goff Barrett-Lennard, John Wood and others would have to be included in this project in a second phase. I simply ran out of time.

This started out as a modest project. Then it grew. The actualizing tendency at work? You decide.

With appreciation to some of our finest writers,

Carol Wolter-Gustafson and the Boston 98 planning committee, Melissa Wolter-Gustafson, Paul Gustafson and Martine Leonard, who helped create the package you are holding.

All rights are reserved to original publishers. For permission to reprint contact the original publishers where applicable.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

---- William L. Barnard: "Education as Dialogue: Challenging Teacher Education"

---- Arthur C. Bohart: "The Active Client: Therapy as Self-Help"

---- Douglas W. Bower: "Thwarting Self-Actualization or Fostering Self-Deactualization: A Person-Centered Perspective"

---- Jerold D. Bozarth: "Empathy From the Framework of Client-Centered Theory and the Rogerian Hypothesis"

---- Barbara Temaner Brodley: "A Client-Centered Psychotherapy Practice"

---- Joanne Cohen: "Empathy Toward Client Perception of Therapist Intent: Evaluating One’s Person Centeredness"

---- Ned L. Gaylin: "On Creativeness and a Psychology of Well Being"

---- Barry Grant: "Perfecting the Therapeutic Attitudes: Client-Centered Therapy as a Spiritual Discipline"

---- Jan I. Harman: "Unconditional Confidence as a Facilitative Precondition"

---- James R. Iberg: "Finding the Body’s Next Step: Ingredients and Hindrances"

---- Armin Klein: "The Use of Poems of the Psychotherapist in Psychotherapy"

---- Colin Lago: "From the Trinity to the Quaternity: A Proposition to Overcome the Traditional Sexist Symbolism of Psychotherapeutic Theory"

---- Germain Lietaer: "Towards a Psychotherapy for the Twenty-first Century"

---- Dave Mearns: "Working at Relational Depth with Clients in Person-Centred Therapy"

---- Peggy Natiello: "Men/Women Issues in Human Development"

---- Nathaniel J. Raskin: "The Development of Nondirective Therapy"

---- Ruth Sanford: "From Rogers to Gleick and Back Again: The Theory of the Person-Centered Approach and the Theory of Chaos. Also, Loving With an Open Hand"

---- Antonio Santos: "The Place of Healing and Spirituality in the Person Centered Approach"

---- Jules Seeman: "Toward a Concept of Personality Integration"

---- Alberto S. Segrera: "Challenges of the Person-Centered Approach in the XXI Century"

---- John M. Shlien: "Four Suggestions"

---- Regina Stamatiadis: "Sharing Life Therapy: A Personal and Extended Way of Being With Clients"

---- Margaret S. Warner: "Person-Centered Psychotherapy: One Nation, Many Tribes"

---- Fred Zimring: "A New Explanation for the Beneficial Results of Client Centered Therapy: The Possibility of a New Paradigm"

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Carol, Please send me a copy of

A PERSON-CENTERED READER: SELECTIONS FROM OUR AUTHORS

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Mail to: Carol Wolter-Gustafson, 21 Arborway Terrace, Jamaica Plain, MA 02139, USA