Bill Swartley

Education

He was educated at Haverford College, The University of Tuebingen, the Jung Institute of Zurich, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the University of the Pacific, and during significant time spent in India.

Career

Swartley was influenced by the work of Carl Jung, Roberto Assagioli, Rural Delivery Laing, Frederick Leboyer, Fritz Perls, Alexander Lowen, Stanislav Grof, Alan Watts, Thomas Verny, Paul Bindrim and many others He was active in the American Psychological Association and promoted international cooperation in psychology in his workshops throughout North America and Europe. Swartley developed "Primal Integration" starting from about 1962.

He summarized this development as follows:

He devoted the last ten years of his life promoting primal integration through workshops, training, lectures, and writings until his death in 1979 at the age of 52.

Doctor Johann-Georg Raben (Doctor of Philosophy), a German Psychologist, has written his doctoral dissertation (approx 600 pages) about Bill Swartley's therapeutic approach. Raben describes in his dissertation the history, theory and practice of Swartley's maturation techniques, based on his own experiences during two workshops led by Swartley in Bavaria, Germany, and London, England, around 1978, and by citing (in German translation) various papers that he received from Swartley, and commenting on them.

The title of the dissertation is: William Swartleys Integrative Primärtherapie (“Primal Integration”). Raben received his doctoral degree in 1984 at the Psychological Institute of the University of Salzburg, Austria.

-- In the years 1978-1982 Raben had had a post of “wissenschaftlicher Assistent” (scientific assistant) at the Institute for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Technical University (Technology Union) of Munich, led by the psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Professor

Doctor medical. et philosophy Albert Görres (see Wikipedia), who sympathized with Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy und used Primal techniques. Raben's job at the institute was to collect literature about the different “cathartic therapies”.

This voluminous collection of literature (including papers about Swartley's Primal Integration) was around 1995 conferred into the archive of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg im Breisgau, Southern Germany.

lieutenant is there available under the keyword “Sammlung Doctor Raben”. (See also Raben's Homepage: johann-georg-rabende) – William Swartley has, in 1954, delivered a master's thesis at the Faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies, College of the Pacific, in Stockton, California. In this thesis, much about the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung can be foundation

Achievements

• Doctor Swartley was the founder of the Centers for the Whole Person in Philadelphia, Mays Landing, New Jersey, New York, and Toronto. He was also a founder, in 1973, of the International Primal Association and was its first Executive Secretary.