1. Richard Price was an American Gestalt therapist, co-founder of the Esalen Institute in 1962, and a veteran of the Beat Generation.
21 Facts About Dick Price
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Dick Price ran Esalen in Big Sur for many years, sometimes virtually single-handed.
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Dick Price developed a practice of hiking the Santa Lucia Mountains and developed a new form of personal integration and growth that he called Gestalt practice, partly based upon Gestalt therapy and Buddhist practice.
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Dick Price consciously applied psychological principles to his sense of self, and helped many people work to do the same.
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Dick Price's work remains at the core of the Esalen experience.
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Dick Price was born October 12,1930, to Herman and Audrey Price in the Rogers Park section of Chicago, Illinois.
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Dick Price had a twin brother, Bobby, who died in 1933, and a sister Joan who was born in 1929.
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Dick Price headed appliance manufacturing and design at Sears for their Coldspot brand, working extensively with Raymond Loewy, who was a close family friend.
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Dick Price joined New Trier's wrestling team and placed second in his weight class in the state of Illinois.
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Dick Price died at age 55 when he was struck by a boulder while hiking near Esalen on November 25,1985.
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Dick Price was survived by his wife, Christine Stewart Price, and two children, David and Jennifer Price.
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Dick Price graduated from Stanford University in 1952 with a major in psychology.
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Dick Price did graduate work in the social relations department at Harvard University, although he left before completing his degree because of his frustration with the conservative, research-oriented faculty.
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Dick Price rented a room in San Francisco at Alan Watts' and Frederic Spiegelberg's newly founded American Academy of Asian Studies.
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Dick Price knew most of the primary figures, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder.
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Dick Price married his first wife, Bonnie, in a Zen ceremony.
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Dick Price was subjected to physical confinement and major tranquilizers, along with numerous electroconvulsive and insulin shock treatments.
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Dick Price had conducted research with LSD at the Psychiatric Research Center in Prague, followed by similar research at Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.
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Dick Price was influenced by the work of Wilhelm Reich, who had been Perls' analyst.
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Dick Price worked with Perls for approximately four years, from 1966 to 1970.
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Dick Price drew from the work of many teachers who came to Esalen over the years.