Alvin R Mahrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2015315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvin R Mahrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvin R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahrer |
| SIGNATURE | MAHRER A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What is psychotherapy for? An almost official answer
Recent task force reports have cited a large pool of research studies on the effectiveness of psychotherapy treatments and therapist–client relationships. A careful examination of these studies has finally yielded an almost official, research-based answer to what psychotherapy is for, and enables psychotherapists to compare their answer to the almost official answer. The main purpose is to examine the implications of psychotherapies, including hu…
Can you give a fair hearing to revolutionary new ideas in psychotherapy
Contrary to what may be the commonly held belief, the worry is that, with almost negligible exceptions, the heavy preponderance of psychotherapists are essentially unable to give a fair hearing to revolutionary new ideas. And the charge is also leveled at humanistic psychotherapists. Because most psychotherapists would object to the charge, the purpose of the article is to invite psychotherapists to take a friendly little test of open-mindedness …
Why do research in psychotherapy: Introduction to a Revolution
Philosophy of science and the foundations of psychotherapy
The Promotion and Use of Strong Feelings in Psychotherapy
Judges examined audiotapes of 15 sessions conducted by experienced therapists representative of psychodynamic-psychoanalytic, humanistic-experiential, behavioral-cognitive, and integrative-eclectic approaches. Each session contained multiple instances of clients’ strong feelings. The findings yielded (a) five explicit methods for promoting strong feelings, each with its own contributing client condition; (b) five ways of using the occurrence of s…
Does “humanistic education” have any meaning
What is "experiencing"? A critical review of meanings and applications in psychotherapy
Many psychotherapies are formally or informally designated as experiential psychotherapies, and experiencing is increasingly included as one of the common dimensions of psychotherapeutic change. Accordingly, the major purpose is to provide a critical review of the ways in which the term “experiencing” is used in the field of psychotherapy. The provisional conclusion is that there are ten meanings of experiencing, of which only four emerge as defi…
Transformational Psychotherapy Sessions
In some exceptionally rare sessions, persons (patients, clients) appeared to undergo profound personal transformation. Furthermore, the personal transformation seemed to be pervasive, permanent, pleasant, and exciting. Clinical study of these sessions revealed at least three ways in which the therapist was quite different in ways that are interpreted as enabling personal transformation. Perhaps this is what some therapists can learn to achieve re…
A humanistic critique of psychoanalytic termination
In psychoanalytic literature, it is generally acknowledged that long‐term psychoanalyses may well be accompanied with troublesome termination problems. Our purpose is to examine this issue from one humanistic perspective. Such a critique allows us to conclude that there are identifiable psychoanalytic principles and methods that play a large hand in actively constructing troublesome termination problems. Proposals are given to modify these princi…
Division 32 Report: 1989 Apa Convention New Orleans, Sheraton Hotel
The Case for Fundamentally Different Existential-Humanistic Psychologies
The thesis is that a strong case may be made in favor of fundamentally different existential-humanistic psychologies. Four arguments are offered, the first two of which set aside traditional reasons for preserving a single existential-humanistic psychology. The third argument holds that there are fundamentally different existential-humanistic positions on basic questions having to do with human personality and change. The fourth argument is that …
Common and Distinctive Therapeutic Change Processes in Client-Centered, Rational-Emotive, and Experiential Psychotherapies
A 12-fold category system of therapeutic change processes was applied to 10 sessions of client-centered, rational-emotive, and experiential psychotherapies conducted by exemplars of each approach. By analyzing the results within and across each category and approach, the findings indicated therapeutic change processes common across the approaches and subsets distinctive to each approach
Discovery-oriented psychotherapy research: Rationale, aims, and methods
Discovery-oriented psychotherapy research: Rationale, aims, and methods
If there really were a specialty of psychotherapy: Standards for postdoctoral training in psychotherapy
Comparative Analysis of the ‘Good Moments’ in Rational-Emotive and Experiential Psychotherapies
Is human destiny tragic? Psychoanalytic and humanistic answers
Perspectives on psychotherapy
Shaping a clinic population: The dropout problem reconsidered
Difficulty Falling Asleep
180 hospitalized patients with expressed difficulties falling asleep were compared with 131 control patients on a psychological problem inventory to investigate the heightened anxiety view of insomnia. Cross-validated results indicated that (a) groups were not differentiated on the basis of anxiety, and (b) groups were differentiated on 44 of 149 items occurring in four factors: somatization, depression, dependent rejection, and decreased control
Suicide Attempts and Threats as Goal-Directed Communications in Psychotic Males
15 suicide attempters and 33 threateners were compared with each other and with 276 control male psychiatric patients on a Psychological Problem Inventory. Results indicated that suicide attempters were characterized by patterns of self-rejection and aggressive tendencies. Threateners were characterized by suicidal sexual anxiety, self-directed aggression, and a trend toward inadequacy. Implications were drawn relative to the motivational goals o…
New Approaches To Personality Classification
Depression: Characteristic Syndromes and a Prefatory Conceptualization
(1969). Depression: Characteristic Syndromes and a Prefatory Conceptualization. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 217-229
The Psychological Problem Inventory
The Psychological Problem Inventory (PPI) is a clinical-research instrument designed to provide hospitalized male psychiatric patients with a simple, straightforward means of (a) defining the broad scope of their problems-behaviors-symptoms (b) from their own self-reported point of view (c) in concrete, behavioral terminology. The instrument is described in terms of its purposes, characteristics, derivation, sample items, and supplementary-comple…
High-Complainers vs Low-Complainers: Patterning of Amount of Self-Reported Symptomatology in Psychiatric Patients
Previous research isolated the amount of symptomatology as a meaningful clinical-research dimension for describing hospitalized psychiatric patients. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the symptoms which are characteristically associated with “high-complainers” and with “low-complainers.” Ss were 248 hospitalized male psychiatric patients, each of whom was administered a symptom checklist. Results indicated that differential symp…
Shaping a clinic population: The dropout problem reconsidered
Transformational Psychotherapy Sessions
In some exceptionally rare sessions, persons (patients, clients) appeared to undergo profound personal transformation. Furthermore, the personal transformation seemed to be pervasive, permanent, pleasant, and exciting. Clinical study of these sessions revealed at least three ways in which the therapist was quite different in ways that are interpreted as enabling personal transformation. Perhaps this is what some therapists can learn to achieve re…
The Case for Fundamentally Different Existential-Humanistic Psychologies
The thesis is that a strong case may be made in favor of fundamentally different existential-humanistic psychologies. Four arguments are offered, the first two of which set aside traditional reasons for preserving a single existential-humanistic psychology. The third argument holds that there are fundamentally different existential-humanistic positions on basic questions having to do with human personality and change. The fourth argument is that …
Philosophy of science and the foundations of psychotherapy
The Onset of Stuttering
The Promotion and Use of Strong Feelings in Psychotherapy
Judges examined audiotapes of 15 sessions conducted by experienced therapists representative of psychodynamic-psychoanalytic, humanistic-experiential, behavioral-cognitive, and integrative-eclectic approaches. Each session contained multiple instances of clients’ strong feelings. The findings yielded (a) five explicit methods for promoting strong feelings, each with its own contributing client condition; (b) five ways of using the occurrence of s…
New Approaches To Personality Classification
A clinical study of set in intraserial learning
Potential Intelligence: A Learning Theory Approach to Description and Clinical Implication
The Role of Cues in Psychodiagnosis
The combination of psychodiagnostic cues1
The Onset of Stuttering
Psychological Symptoms as a Function of Psychiatric Hospitalization
High-Complainers vs Low-Complainers: Patterning of Amount of Self-Reported Symptomatology in Psychiatric Patients
Previous research isolated the amount of symptomatology as a meaningful clinical-research dimension for describing hospitalized psychiatric patients. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the symptoms which are characteristically associated with “high-complainers” and with “low-complainers.” Ss were 248 hospitalized male psychiatric patients, each of whom was administered a symptom checklist. Results indicated that differential symp…
The Psychological Problem Inventory
The Psychological Problem Inventory (PPI) is a clinical-research instrument designed to provide hospitalized male psychiatric patients with a simple, straightforward means of (a) defining the broad scope of their problems-behaviors-symptoms (b) from their own self-reported point of view (c) in concrete, behavioral terminology. The instrument is described in terms of its purposes, characteristics, derivation, sample items, and supplementary-comple…
Depression: Characteristic Syndromes and a Prefatory Conceptualization
(1969). Depression: Characteristic Syndromes and a Prefatory Conceptualization. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 217-229
Suicide Attempts and Threats as Goal-Directed Communications in Psychotic Males
15 suicide attempters and 33 threateners were compared with each other and with 276 control male psychiatric patients on a Psychological Problem Inventory. Results indicated that suicide attempters were characterized by patterns of self-rejection and aggressive tendencies. Threateners were characterized by suicidal sexual anxiety, self-directed aggression, and a trend toward inadequacy. Implications were drawn relative to the motivational goals o…
New Approaches To Personality Classification
Difficulty Falling Asleep
180 hospitalized patients with expressed difficulties falling asleep were compared with 131 control patients on a psychological problem inventory to investigate the heightened anxiety view of insomnia. Cross-validated results indicated that (a) groups were not differentiated on the basis of anxiety, and (b) groups were differentiated on 44 of 149 items occurring in four factors: somatization, depression, dependent rejection, and decreased control
Shaping a clinic population: The dropout problem reconsidered
Perspectives on psychotherapy
Is human destiny tragic? Psychoanalytic and humanistic answers
If there really were a specialty of psychotherapy: Standards for postdoctoral training in psychotherapy
Comparative Analysis of the ‘Good Moments’ in Rational-Emotive and Experiential Psychotherapies
Common and Distinctive Therapeutic Change Processes in Client-Centered, Rational-Emotive, and Experiential Psychotherapies
A 12-fold category system of therapeutic change processes was applied to 10 sessions of client-centered, rational-emotive, and experiential psychotherapies conducted by exemplars of each approach. By analyzing the results within and across each category and approach, the findings indicated therapeutic change processes common across the approaches and subsets distinctive to each approach
Discovery-oriented psychotherapy research: Rationale, aims, and methods
Discovery-oriented psychotherapy research: Rationale, aims, and methods
Division 32 Report: 1989 Apa Convention New Orleans, Sheraton Hotel
The Case for Fundamentally Different Existential-Humanistic Psychologies
The thesis is that a strong case may be made in favor of fundamentally different existential-humanistic psychologies. Four arguments are offered, the first two of which set aside traditional reasons for preserving a single existential-humanistic psychology. The third argument holds that there are fundamentally different existential-humanistic positions on basic questions having to do with human personality and change. The fourth argument is that …
A humanistic critique of psychoanalytic termination
In psychoanalytic literature, it is generally acknowledged that long‐term psychoanalyses may well be accompanied with troublesome termination problems. Our purpose is to examine this issue from one humanistic perspective. Such a critique allows us to conclude that there are identifiable psychoanalytic principles and methods that play a large hand in actively constructing troublesome termination problems. Proposals are given to modify these princi…
What is "experiencing"? A critical review of meanings and applications in psychotherapy
Many psychotherapies are formally or informally designated as experiential psychotherapies, and experiencing is increasingly included as one of the common dimensions of psychotherapeutic change. Accordingly, the major purpose is to provide a critical review of the ways in which the term “experiencing” is used in the field of psychotherapy. The provisional conclusion is that there are ten meanings of experiencing, of which only four emerge as defi…
Transformational Psychotherapy Sessions
In some exceptionally rare sessions, persons (patients, clients) appeared to undergo profound personal transformation. Furthermore, the personal transformation seemed to be pervasive, permanent, pleasant, and exciting. Clinical study of these sessions revealed at least three ways in which the therapist was quite different in ways that are interpreted as enabling personal transformation. Perhaps this is what some therapists can learn to achieve re…
Psychology (28 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (15 works) · Psychotherapist (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works)