Dr. Maureen O'Hara is Chair of the Psychology Department at National University, La Jolla, CA and President Emerita of Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco. Working with American psychologist Dr. Carl R. Rogers, she helped develop the Person-Centered Approach to psychotherapy and large group process. More recently her writings have examined the relationship between the "big picture" changes underway and internal psychological adaptation. Combining her background as psychotherapist, organizational consultant and futurist, she is a frequent keynote speaker nationally and internationally on the evolution of new ways of being in a changing world. As a specilist in higher education assessment and governance she has served on evaluation teams for the accreditation agencies WASC and DETC.

Maureen currently serves as President of APA Division 32, the Society for Humanistic Psychology. She is a Distinguished Clinical Member of the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Fellow of the Meridian Institute on Governance, Leadership Learning and the Future and member of the International Futures Forum in St. Andrews, Scotland.

News

Ten Things to Do in a Conceptual Emergency
Written with Graham Leicester and published in February 2009 by Triarchy Press,Ten Things is now available here as a free PDF or for purchase.

Psychological capacities for life in a global age.
University of Vienna | May 11, 2009
View Maureen's PowerPoint presentation available in Other Resources.
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Carl Rogers Award Presentation Podcast

On August 18, 2007 Maureen received the Carl Rogers award for "outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of humanistic psychology" from the American Psychological Association's Division of Humanistic Psychology at the APA convention in San Francisco. She delivered the presentation Psychological Literacy for Transformational Times. To download the mp3 audio podcast right-click on the mp3 image. Some browsers will also play the file with a left-click.

The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling
Edited by: Mick Cooper, Maureen O'Hara, Peter F. Schmid and Gill Wyatt
Is available now in the UK at Palgrave Macmillan and
in the U.S. at Palgrave MacMillan U.S.

News about Carl Rogers
In a 2006 survey reported in the March/April 2007 Psychotherapy Networker Carl Rogers is named as the single most influential psychotherapist of the past quarter-century - by a landslide. [read the article]