Arnold beisser biography
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Flying Without Wings: Life with Arnold Beisser
Just a months before the polio vaccine became available, tragedy struck Dr. Arnold Beisser. Suddenly the national tennis champion and surgeon found himself in an iron lung, unable to move. F... Read allJust a months before the polio vaccine became available, tragedy struck Dr. Arnold Beisser. Suddenly the national tennis champion and surgeon found han själv in an iron lung, unable to move. Family, friends, colleagues and Arnold himself tell this inspiring journey of loss, accepta... Read allJust a months before the polio vaccine became available, tragedy struck Dr. Arnold Beisser. Suddenly the national tennis mästare and surgeon found himself in an iron lung, unable to move. Family, friends, colleagues and Arnold himself tell this inspiring journey of loss, acceptance, triumph and love - how he thrived for 40 years becoming an award-winning psychiatrist... Read all
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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
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Life is often treated like a...
At 24, Arnold R. Beisser, having graduated from Stanford Medical School, completed his internship and planned for a surgical residency.
But it was 1950, the United States was fighting in Korea, and Beisser, a Naval reservist, was alerted that he was to be called to active duty. His residency had to be put on hold.
In the kvartet months before his orders came, he devoted himself to his second love, tennis, winning a national championship and a high national ranking. He was ung, strong, healthy and seemingly invincible.
Then, a few days after his 25th birthday, he was drabbad with polio, paralyzed from the neck down. For two years, he would live in an iron lung, and any further recovery was minimal.
In the years since, he has built a life filled with love, laughter, friends and the rewards of a successful psychiatric career. His book, “Flying Without Wings,” was a moving, inspiring chronicle of this 40-year journey.
Now, in a new companion volume,