Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D.
Eugene T. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and taught there from 1964 to 1995. His philosophical work is concerned especially with the relationship between logic and experiential explication. Implicit intricacy cannot be represented, but functions in certain ways in relation to philosophical discourse. The applications of this "Philosophy of the Implicit" have been important in many fields.
His philosophical books and articles are listed and some of them are available from this web site. They include Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning, (in paperback) and Language Beyond Post-Modernism: Saying and Thinking In Gendlin's Philosophy (edited by David Levin) , both from Northwestern University Press, l997 and A Process Model.
Gendlin has been honored four times by the American Psychological
Association for his development of Experiential Psychotherapy. He received
the first "Distinguished Professional Psychologist of the Year" award from
the Clinical Division, an award from the Philosophical Psychology Division,
and he and The Focusing Institute received an award from the Humanistic
Division in August of 2000. Division 24 is giving him (2010) their highest
award for Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to
Psychology. In 2008 he was awarded the Viktor Frankl prize by the city of
Vienna and the Viktor Frankl Family Foundation.
He was a founder and editor for many years of the Clinical Division Journal,
Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice. His book, Focusing, has
sold over 500,000 copies and is translated into 17 languages. His other books include, Let
Your Body Interpret Your Dreams, and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy.
He is internationally recognized as a major American philosopher and psychologist.
Click here for a complete bibliography of Gendlin's philosophical and psychological publications.




