Background
Holt, Herbert was born on April 27, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. Arrived in United States, 1936, naturalized, 1941. Son of Leon and Cecilia (von Lempel) Holt.
(Herbert M. Holt, M.D. an iconoclastic psychotherapist cha...)
Herbert M. Holt, M.D. an iconoclastic psychotherapist challenges his own profession...patients whose favorite pastime is "therapy shopping"...the concept of being your own best friend...Transcendental Meditation and other forms of "new" consciousness...and the "idealistic belief that human behavior comes in a bottle, labeled either good or bad." Dr. Holt suggest that many people suffering from nothing more than boredom approach psychotherapy as they would a beauty salon-they come to have their psyches shampooed, touched up, teased and primped." Not everyone cautions Dr. Holt, needs the help of a therapist to learn the secret of self-realization; many of us are capable of learning through the trial and error of living. And it is only in the real world, in our relationships with others, he believes, that we truly "find ourselves." "An individual in an encounter group will only find a laboratory artifact of himself." In our haste to rubber-stamp behavior either "good" or "bad" Dr. Holt says we miss the target we should all be trying to hit: "to gain the insight that will help us make the soundest choices, and to live with them comfortably, if not ecstatically."
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Holt, Herbert was born on April 27, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. Arrived in United States, 1936, naturalized, 1941. Son of Leon and Cecilia (von Lempel) Holt.
Absolvent der Medizin, University Vienna, 1937. Docteur en Medicine, University Lausanne, Switzerland, 1938.
Came to the United States, 1936, naturalized, 1941. Intern, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1938-1939, resident, 1939-1941. Practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, New York City, since 1951.
Dean Westchester Institute, Rye, New York, since 1970.
Director New York Institute Existential Analysis, since 1965. Medical director Cathedral Counseling Service Cathedral Church Saint John the Divine, New York City, Actors Counseling Service, New York City.
(Herbert M. Holt, M.D. an iconoclastic psychotherapist cha...)
Fellow Association for Applied Psychoanalysis (founding president), American Association for Social Psychiatry, American Society Psychoanalytic Physicians, American Ontoanalytic Association, American Society Existential Psychiatry(president since 1972), American Academy Psychoanalysis.
Married Dolores Bolla di Osasco, July 14, 1961. Children: Renata, Gerhard.