Frank Farrelly
Frank Farrelly (born August 26, 1931 ; † February 10, 2013 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American social worker ( master's degree ), psychotherapist and professor of social work and psychiatry from Madison (Wisconsin) and is considered the founder of the provocative Therapy in psychotherapy.
Life
Frank Farrelly was raised on a farm in Missouri, the ninth of twelve children . He began his professional career as a novice in a Catholic monastery. However, he left this before taking his final vows and studied clinical social work at Catholic University in Washington, DC. It was there that he met his future wife June, with whom he had four children.
His therapeutic career began with training in client-centered conversation psychotherapy with Carl Rogers . He accompanied a research project at the Mendota Mental Health Hospital in Madison (Wisconsin), where he worked with schizophrenic patients. He was enthusiastic about the work of his teacher and received the highest values in the therapist variables empathy and congruence . However, he soon began to develop his own style by humorously challenging his patients. He characterized his basic attitude as that of a diaboli advocate . Provocative Therapy was born. Farrelly had ambitious goals himself. "I was also keen to achieve a breakthrough with the patients who were considered hopeless, because working with the usual clientele is like shooting fish in a water glass with a shotgun, you can't miss them."
He worked with schizophrenic, drug addicts and severely depressed patients as well as criminal psychopaths. He ran his private practice from 1960 to 1993.
From 1982 to 2011 Frank Farrelly traveled regularly to Germany and Austria, among others, and gave weekend seminars there aimed at psychotherapists, psychologists and those with general interests.
Web links
- Literature by and about Frank Farrelly in the catalog of the German National Library
- Video with Farrelly , workshop in New York 2006
- Robin Pape: Biography of Frank Farrelly In: Biographisches Archiv der Psychiatrie (BIAPSY) , 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Who was Frank Farrelly? Nick Kemp, 2015, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- ^ Farrelly, Frank. Madison.com, February 11, 2013, accessed March 10, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farrelly, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1931 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 2013 |
| Place of death | Madison , Wisconsin, United States |