John P. Krop

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John (Joop) P. Krop (born January 5, 1924 in Amsterdam , † July 9, 2014 in Los Gatos , California ) was an American psychotherapist .

Life and teaching

Krop emigrated to the USA in 1960. He got in touch with the humanistic psychology, which was developing in California at this time, especially at the Esalen Institute near Big Sur . Krop worked with their pioneers such as Virginia Satir (family therapy), Fritz Perls (gestalt therapy), Eric Berne ( transactional analysis ), Alexander Lowen and Stanley Keleman ( bioenergetics ), Al Pesso ( psychomotor ) and Bandler / Grinder ( NLP ).

From 1969 until his retirement in 2000, Krop was director of the Center for Human Communication in Los Gatos , California, which had specialized in the training of psychotherapists. He has also taught at John F. Kennedy University at Pleasant Hill and at the University of California . He influenced the Dutch therapy scene through training and supervision groups that he gave on annual visits to the Netherlands. This also resulted in broadcasts to Germany.

therapy

Krop developed his own approach to therapy, which he called 'action therapy'. His history as a social worker in Amsterdam in the post-war period (during the war he was a forced laborer in Germany) explains his lifelong search for a method of action, a more agogic approach in psychotherapy. In this way he developed into an eclectic in the USA who, from a wide variety of therapeutic approaches, summarized the parts that clarified the complicated human behavior in a simple way. The merging did not lead to a mere addition of different elements, but to a separate therapy concept. Krop emphasized three basic techniques:

  1. Representation by means of the body
  2. The use of imaginations (inner images)
  3. The use of objects (items).

With these three " metaphors " his clients should make their concerns visible. That would save a lot of words and explanations and would bring quick, practical access to the essentials. The subsequent development of possible solutions together with the client could thus be designed very effectively.

Publications

  • John P. Krop, The Use of Body Architecture in Couple Therapy , Gestalt Theory , Vol. 3 No. 1/2 (1981). Steinkopff Verlag Darmstadt, ISSN  0170-057X
  • (John) Joop Krop, Actietherapie . H. Nellissen / Baarn (1984) ISBN 9024411378
  • Action methods in therapy: working with metaphors , John Krop; Santa Cruz, California, Envision Video Productions, 1996
  • Imagery in the Treatment of Trauma with Jan Taal in Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health , ISBN 0-89503-208-2
  • Lothar Kuschnik / Arno Paschmann Therapy in Action , EHP-Verlag (2013) ISBN 978-3-89797-081-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=171774519
  2. ↑ http://www.weiterbildung-wir.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=101
  3. ↑ http://www.praxispaschmann.de/images/003.download/gestalttherapie.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Krop, John P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krop, Joop
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2014
Place of death Los Gatos , California