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A Brief Bio
Ed Mendelowitz is an essayist, educator, and therapist whose work explores vital connections between psychotherapy and the broader humanities. In both clinical and creative endeavors, literature, art, psychology, philosophy, science, music, and film commingle with human encounter in a way that is uniquely suited to aspiring souls in turbulent times. “Artists were psychologists, you know, and profound ones,” the playwright Eugene O’Neill aptly opined, “before psychology was invented.”
Ed Mendelowitz received his doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in Berkeley where he worked closely with the preeminent psychotherapist and author Rollo May. He is Associate Editor of the Humanistic Psychologist, serves on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and has contributed to some of the major compendiums of existential/humanistic/depth psychotherapy. Dr. Mendelowitz is the recipient of the Rollo May Award for “independent and outstanding pursuit of new frontiers in psychology.” He resides in Greater Los Angeles with his wife, Khanh, and daughter, Miryam, where he writes episodic essays pondering what Wim Wenders has called “the state of things” and maintains a part-time practice in psychotherapy.
During his graduate years, Dr. Mendelowitz worked closely with Rollo May, one of the surpassing sages of the 20th century. This association has had lasting significance, culminating visibly in his role as teaching assistant to May and, more privately, in friendships that lasted until the older man’s death in 1994 and his wife, Georgia’s, in 2021. Mendelowitz’s work reflects this influence in its abiding meditation upon what is possible in the way of human fulfillment and its investigation of the manner in which one is able to use adversity as an impetus for further growth. It is precisely this encounter that lies at the heart of effective psychotherapy, one which inclines toward attentive comportment and, with time and will, greater immersion in, and responsibility for, a world of life and relations.
Websites & Media & Resources
https://www.edmendelowitz.com/
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