Arnold Lazarus

Arnold Allan Lazarus ( born January 27, 1932 in Johannesburg, † October 1, 2013 in Princeton, New Jersey) was an American psychologist and psychotherapist, professor of psychology at Rutgers University and founder of the multimodal behavior therapy.

Life

Arnold Allan Lazarus grew up in South Africa and studied at the University of Witwatersrand, among others, Joseph Wolpe. In 1956 he received the Bachelor's and Master's degree in 1957 in experimental psychology. In addition to serving a practice for psychotherapy, which he opened in 1959, he continued to study and in 1960 was awarded the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. In 1963 he spent a year as an assistant professor at the University of Stanford (California ), and then returned for two years at the University of Witwatersrand back.

In 1966 he became head of the behavioral Institute in Sausalito, California. Together with Joseph Wolpe, he published a book on behavioral techniques (Behavior therapy techniques, 1966). A year later, he became a visiting professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, where Joseph Wolpe now taught as a professor.

Unlike Wolpe Lazarus participated in an increasingly liberal attitude to forms of therapy that were committed not only to the classical behaviorism. After Lazarus ' opinion of an effective therapy should all empirically proven techniques take regardless of their origin in the eye and bring targeted to the application. About this " technical eclecticism " there were differences, and finally to break with Wolpe.

From 1970 to 1972, Lazarus was working at the University of Yale. In 1972 he received the diploma of the American Board of Clinical Professional Psychology and settled down first with a private practice in Princeton, New Jersey. A short time later he was appointed professor at the local Rutgers University, where he taught until his retirement and researched. Even after dispensation from the University of Lazarus continued to work as a therapist in his own practice.

Performance

Lazarus ' Multimodal behavioral therapy, a form of cognitive behavioral therapy, was first published in 1976 under the title Multimodal Behavior Therapy as a book. He describes seven different, mutually supportive areas of life = modalities (behavior, affect,, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relations, drugs). In therapy interventions can usually has several, each corresponding to the problems of individual modalities. Basis for all psychotherapeutic efforts is the therapist -client relationship even with Lazarus. Lazarus founded several " Multimodal Therapy Institute ", the first in 1976 in Kingston, New Jersey, later followed by other institutions in New York, Illinois, Texas and Ohio.

Arnold Lazarus has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from the American Board of Professional Psychology and the Distinguished Psychologist Award of the American Psychological Association (1992). As the first prize winner in 1996 he received the prestigious "Psyche Award" from the Cummings Foundation.

Lazarus was the author and co-author of some 15 books and over 200 technical papers in journals and anthologies. With some of his books he tried to bring close its therapeutic findings in easily understandable form the interested layman. Two of these books he published together with his son Clifford Neil Lazarus, who is also a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.

Works (selection German editions )

  • Zus. with Clifford N. Lazarus: the small bag therapist. In 60 seconds o.k. again Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-34315-2
  • Zus. with Clifford N. Lazarus and Allen Fay: pitfalls of life. Forty rules that make life a living hell and how we overcome them. dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-36215-4
  • Zus, with Allen Fay: I can if I want. Instructions to psychological self- help. dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-08551-7
  • Interior images. Imagination in therapy and self-help. 3 verb. Edition. Pfeiffer, Klett - Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-89612-0
  • Pitfalls of love. twenty-four misconceptions about life together. dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-36185-9
  • Practice of multimodal therapy. DGVT, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-87159-125-4
  • Multimodal brief psychotherapy. dtv, Munich 2001, Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91986-4
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