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Barry StevensBarry Stevens (1902-1985) was a writer and Gestalt therapist. Self-described as a "High School drop-out, 1918, because what she wanted to know, she couldn't learn in school." (Source: Person to Person, About the Authors) Her publications include: - Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human, by Carl Rogers and Barry Stevens, with contributions from Eugene T. Gendlin, John M. Shlien, and Wilson Van Dusen, Real People Press, 1967, ISBN 091122601X (paper) and ISBN 0911226001 (cloth).
- Don't Push the River (It Flows by Itself), 1970. Described by Real People Press as "A first-person account of the author's use of Gestalt Therapy and the ways of Zen, Krishnamurti and the American Indian to deepen and expand personal experience and work through difficulties. 'We have to turn ourselves upside down and reverse our approach to life.' This autobiographical episode shows the author doing this during a three-month period in association with Fritz Perls at the Gestalt Institute of Canada in 1969." (Source: Person to Person.)
- Burst Out Laughing, 1985
She is the mother of John O. Stevens who is also a writer and Gestalt therapist. Fritz Perls described Barry Stevens as "a natural born therapist." External link - "Memories of Barry Stevens" at The Gestalt Therapy Page: http://www.gestalt.org/barry.htm
- Web site of Detlev Kranz, with pages on Barry Stevens and Gestalt therapy (in German, with short abstract in English, and bibliography of Barry Stevens' books and articles including translations into German): http://www.detlev-kranz.privat.t-online.de/bs.html
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