Real People Press

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Real People Press is an American book publisher founded in 1967 by John O. Stevens (current name: Steve Andreas ) in Lafayette , California . Steve Andreas and his wife Connirae Andreas have run the publishing house together since 1979. The current headquarters are in Boulder , Colorado . The focus of the publishing work was originally the areas of Gestalt therapy and personal growth in general, now the focus is on neuro-linguistic programming .

history

John O. Stevens / Steve Andreas founded the publishing house initially to publish a book by his mother Barry Stevens and the psychotherapist Carl Rogers , for which no publisher could be found. Through the encounter with Fritz Perls in 1968 and the publication of his book Gestalt Therapy Verbatim , the publisher made a significant contribution to the further spread of Gestalt therapy in the USA.

Gestalt Therapy Verbatim is based on tape recordings of Fritz Perls' psychotherapeutic work from 1966 to 1968 at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur , California. John O. Stevens had transcribed these notes in writing with the help of his mother Barry Stevens.

It was followed in 1969 by Fritz Perls' autobiography In and Out the Garbage Pail and u. a. 1970 Barry Stevens' book Don't Push the River. Aside from gestalt therapy, Steven's book found widespread use in the human potential movement of the 1970s.

Other authors include a. Tai Chi master Al Chung-Liang Huang; Violet Oaklander, who developed Gestalt therapy for children, and John O. Stevens himself with his Gestalt therapy book Awareness (German: The Art of Perception ).

Since 1979 Real People Press has mainly published literature in the field of neuro-linguistic programming .

title

  • Carl Rogers, Barry Stevens: Person to Person. 1967.
    • German edition: From person to person. Opportunities to meet yourself and others.
  • Fritz Perls: Gestalt Therapy Verbatim. 1968.
    • German edition: Gestalt therapy in action.
  • Fritz Perls: In and Out the Garbage Pail. 1969.
    • German edition: Gestalt perception. Discarded and found things from my garbage can.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the publisher's homepage, s. Real People Press, About Real People Press
  2. ^ B. Stevens: Don't Push the River . Real People Press, Lafayette, Cal. 1970; German: Don't Push The River. Gestalt therapy at its roots . Peter Hammer Verlag / Gestalt Institute, Cologne 2000, p. 67.
  3. ^ The German edition of Gestalt Therapy Verbatim : FS Perls: Gestalt Therapy in Action . Real People Press, Stuttgart 1969. (Klett, 1976)
  4. ↑ B Stevens: D on't Push the River . Real People Press, Lafayette, Cal. 1970; German: Don't Push The River. Gestalt therapy at its roots . Peter Hammer Verlag / Gestalt Institute Cologne 2000, p. 76.
  5. ↑ JO Stevens: The Art of Perception. Gestalt therapy exercises. Real People Press Munich 1971. (Chr. Kaiser, 1975)

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