Harlene Anderson

Harlene Anderson ( born December 1, 1942) is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and essayist, considered the founder of the postmodern psychotherapy, which belongs to the sphere of systemic therapy. She teaches at the Our Lady of the Lake University, Houston, and lives in Mount Vernon (Texas ).

Work

Anderson was one of the founders in 1977 of the Houston Galveston Institute ( HGI), together with Paul F. Dell, Harold A. Goolishian and George Pulliam. The Institute at that time was innovative in which it narrative, language and conversation conceded a central role, the non- knowing position of the therapist, his equality with the client and the recognition of a "problem - organizing system " demanded. In its linking of practice, teaching and research, the HGI was attractive to many students from home and abroad.

"Collaborative Approach" called the Houston their approach, which included the hierarchic waiver on the part of the therapist. Anderson continued this kolloquiale technology first in family therapy and marriage counseling one, finally, in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, today also in organizations in business, education and research. Postmodern, this approach calls in particular because of the traditional canon of forms of psychotherapy, without limitation, all that appears to be useful, is used - regardless of ideology or intellectual attachment to the origin. Anderson promoted unabashedly personal success and individual pursuit of wealth and influence, Lifelong Learning and efficiency in relationships and personal life. The Foreign Exchange " Everything goes " and " one hit" dominate their therapies and their coaching.

Anderson continued her ambition in several new institutions a - as a co-founder of Access Success International, the Houston Galveston Institute and the Taos Institute, but also as a board member of the Family Business Institute and the Texas Medical Assistance and Development. In the 80s, she was also, together with Harold A. Goolishian and Hans -Werner Gessmann one of the founders of systemic family therapy studies in Psychotherapeutic Institute Bergerhausen in Germany. Her books have been translated into Danish, German, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish. She gives lectures and workshops in several countries.

Awards

Publications

A series of articles, which were published by Harlene Anderson, together with other founders of the Galveston Family Institute in the 1980s, can be found in the Publkikationsliste by Harold A. Goolishian.

In English

  • Innovations in the Reflecting Process: The Inspiration of Tom Andersen. (Ed. with Per Jensen ). Sterling 2007
  • Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference. (Ed. with Diane Gehart ). New York in 2006
  • Appreciative Organizations. ( Co-author, together with D. Cooperrider, K. Gergen, M. Gergen, S. McNamee & D. Whitney ). Chagrin Falls 2001
  • Conversations, Language and Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach to Therapy. New York in 1997
  • Is Diagnosis a disaster? A Constructionist Trialogue. In: Kaslow, Florence W. (ed. ): Handbook of Relational Diagnosis and Dysfunctional Family Patterns. Wiley & Sons, Chichester 1996

In German language

  • The Therapeutic Conversation: Dialogue as the Equal perspective of alteration. Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 3-608-91978-3
  • Diagnosis - a disaster? A constructionist trialogue. Kenneth J. Gergen, Lynn Hoffman and Harlene Anderson. Journal of Systemic Therapy 1997 (4): 224-241
Narrative psychology Relationship counseling Hans-Werner Gessmann Lynn Hoffman (family therapist)
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