Biography Everett Shostrom

Shostrom is an American psychologist, author and producer. Shostr was the president of the American Psychological Association. He is the author of 10 books and 5 tests. But then I was sent to study at Sunday school at the church of a strictly fundamentalist in the sense. There I learned what you can’t do: you can’t drink, dance, go to the cinema, etc. The religion that I met there was a “impossible” system.

Therefore, I imagined God a manipulator. He relied on the negative, and not on the positive: I can remain good only if I obey these numerous ... prohibitions. I spent my student years at the University of Illinois, where I learned to be an exemplary student. Since I always studied at school well, I also had no problems with academic performance. I also found that I received higher grades when I played the role of the “trampled”, that is, I listened to the “tramping” - to the professor serviningly.

I went to the army, where I had the opportunity to become an officer. As a candidate for officers, I played the role of the “trampled” well and successfully graduated from the officer school in Fort Benning, Georgia. After some time, I participated in the battle for Baldge. Here I realized that in battle a simple soldier voluntarily takes on the most difficult tasks if you treat him as “you, and not as a“ thing ”.

After the war, I entered the graduate school of Standford University. There I first found out what it means when professors respect you, and not “trample”, as it was in Illinois. The respect of the Standford professors Henry Mc Daniel and Ernest Hilgard contributed to my personal growth more than anything else. As a graduate student, I spent one summer at the University of Chicago with Professor Karl Rogers and his students.

His therapeutic system was based on faith in man and respect for him. In that summer, I survived the experience of the so -called “you -you” - relations with other people. Having finished Stanford, I taught at the Pepperdain College under the leadership of my old professor Dr. I. Pullias, an elevated, smart and sensitive person. After working in Pepperdain, I devoted myself to psychological counseling.

During these years, I, perhaps, were most affected by two people - Dr. Frederick Perls and Dr. Abraham Maslow. Dr. Perls was my therapist for two years, and helped me understand a lot of what is written in this book. Dr. Maslow came to our institute several years ago, having familiarized himself with some of my works. I am amazed, as an inspiration of people as Dr. Mc Daniel, Hilgard, Perls and Maslow, strengthened my faith in myself.

I seem to myself a good therapist, because I am susceptible to my own experiences and experiences of other people, but this susceptibility is a double -edged knife, because I am vulnerable to criticism and pain inflicted on me by other people. Therefore, instead of being as direct and open as I would like to be, I often be evasive. It is necessary to clearly understand that we, as psychologists, cannot allow our customers to deify us.

Turning a psychologist in his imagination into an omnipotent figure, the client projects all his strength on him, and he occupies the role of the “trampled”. So I am not an example of perfection, I am an example of humanity. ” Detailed biography.