1. Eugene Gendlin studied under Carl Rogers, the founder of client-centered therapy, at the University of Chicago and received his PhD in philosophy in 1958.
26 Facts About Eugene Gendlin
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From 1958 to 1963 Eugene Gendlin was Research Director at the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute of the University of Wisconsin.
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Eugene Gendlin served as an associate professor in the departments of Philosophy and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago from 1964 until 1995.
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Eugene Gendlin is best known for Focusing, a psychotherapy technique, and for "Thinking at the Edge", a general procedure for "thinking with more than patterns".
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Eugene Gendlin gave the name "felt sense" to this intuitive body-feel for unresolved issues.
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Eugene Gendlin founded The Focusing Institute in 1985 to facilitate training and education in Focusing for academic and professional communities and to share the practice with the public.
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Eugene Gendlin has been honored by the APA four times, and was the first recipient of their Distinguished Professional Award in Psychology and Psychotherapy.
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Eugene Gendlin was awarded the Viktor Frankl prize by the Viktor Frankl Family Foundation in 2008.
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Eugene Gendlin was a founder and longtime editor of the journal Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice as well as the in-house journal of the Focusing Institute called the Folio, and is the author of a number of books, including Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method.
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Eugene Gendlin regarded himself first and foremost as a philosopher and he brought a rigorous philosophical perspective to psychology, presented in his early book Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning and later developed into a comprehensive theory of the deep nature of life processes, articulated in his masterwork A Process Model.
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Eugene Gendlin asserts that an organism's living interaction with its environment is prior to abstract knowledge about its environment.
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Eugene Gendlin agrees with postmodernists that culture and language are always already implicit in experiencing and in concepts.
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Eugene Gendlin has shown that it is possible to refer directly to this process in the context of a given problem or situation and systematically generate new concepts and more precise logical units.
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Much of Eugene Gendlin's philosophy is concerned with showing how this implicit bodily knowing functions in relation to logic.
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For example, Eugene Gendlin has found that when the felt sense is allowed to function in relation to concepts, each carries the other forward, through steps of deeper feel and new formulation.
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Eugene Gendlin developed a way of measuring the extent to which an individual refers to a felt sense; and he found in a series of studies that therapy clients who have positive outcomes do much more of this.
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Eugene Gendlin then developed a way to teach people to refer to their felt sense, so clients could do better in therapy.
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In 1970, Eugene Gendlin was the first person to receive the "Distinguished Professional Award in Psychology and Psychotherapy" from the Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association.
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In 2000, Eugene Gendlin received, along with The Focusing Institute, the Charlotte and Karl Buhler Award from the Society of Humanistic Psychology.
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Eugene Gendlin was born in Vienna, Austria, on December 25,1926.
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Eugene Gendlin lived with his parents in the 9th district of Vienna, a very Jewish district at that time.
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Eugene Gendlin went on to serve in the United States Navy and to become a US citizen.
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Eugene Gendlin had three children: Gerry and Judith from his first marriage with wife Fran; and a daughter, Elissa, with his second wife, Mary Hendricks-Gendlin.
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Gerry Eugene Gendlin is an expert on Russia and served as an associate professor in the department of History, Politics, Languages and Cultures at Edinboro University in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
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Mary worked closely with Eugene Gendlin and served for many years as the director of The Focusing Institute.
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Many of Eugene Gendlin's writings are available online at the Focusing Institute and the Eugene Gendlin Online Library.