Arnold R. Beisser

Arnold R. Beisser (born October 5, 1925, † July 19, 1991) was an American psychiatrist and Gestalt therapist.

Arnold Beisser was a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a student of Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Therapy.

At the age of 25, Beisser was seriously ill with child paralysis and was almost completely paralyzed. His most famous work is the book Why do I need wings? A gestalt therapist considers his life as a paralytic (original title: Flying without Wings). In him Beisser describes how he tries to cope with this deep cut in his biography. The so-called "paradox of change" by Arnold R. Beisser became one of the most important core statements of gestalt therapy: "Change happens when someone becomes what he is, not when he tries to become something he is not." Biter has thus recognized that change happens when the client is no longer compulsively trying to change, but first learns to accept as he really is - precisely then the healing change begins and this man becomes free. This in turn recalls the findings of the Kentenich pedagogy. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): GND: 119533723 (PICA, AKS) | LCCN: n87888351 NDL: 00432771 VIAF: 37002080 | Wikipedia People Search

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