Professor Garry Prouty
Garry passed away on 17/5/09.
Bibilography
Dr. Garry Prouty was trained in Person-Centered /
Experiential Psychotherapy by Eugene Gendlin of the University of Chicago. He developed
his own therapeutic approach at clinics and hospitals dealing with psychotic
and retarded clients. He is the founder of the Pre Therapy International Network, a European organization for working with psychotic persons.
Currently, Dr. Prouty is a Fellow
of the Chicago Counselling, Psychotherapy and Research Center. Also, he is an
Honorary member of the Chicago Psychological Association. He has recently
delivered the Frieda Fromm-Reichman Memorial Lecture at the Washington School
of Psychiatry.
He has served as an editorial consultant to Psychotherapy,
Theory, Research and Practice as well as the International Journal of Mental
Imagery. Currently he is a consultant to the American, English, Austrian and
Italian client-centered journals.
Dr Prouty has lectured in European clinics, hospitals and
training organizations over the past twenty years. His work is known in the
following Countries: Scotland, England,
The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Greece, Romania,
Japan, China, Australia, Portugal, Dennmark, USA and Moscow.
He is author and co author of numerous books and articles on Pre Therapy:
'Theoretical Evolutions in
Person-Centered / Experiential Therapy:
Applications to Schizophrenic and
Retarded Psychoses' as well as co-author of the German text 'Prae-Therapie'. Both
books are in multiple translations - Portuguese, Dutch, German, Japanese, Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Brazil. His most recent publication is a
50-year research survey of humanistic psychotherapy with schizophrenics.
Elected: Scientific Associate of the American Academy of
Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Award: Chicago Psychological Association Life
Time Career Achievement Award to Garry Prouty, Ph.D.
Dr. Garry Prouty,
who was mentored in the 1960's by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, Professor Emeritus of the
University of Chicago, will receive the Life Time Career Achievement Award
for his original and continuing work in Pre-Therapy, which teaches therapists
how to "reach the unreachable"
"Prouty's
work................It is a central breakthrough"
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