Multimodal counselling

Arnold Lazarus

pp. 257-272

in: Ray Colledge, Mastering counselling theory, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

Arnold Lazarus was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1932, the youngest of four children. When he started university he intended to become a writer and journalist, but then he found out he could become a psychotherapist without formal medical studies and pursued his interest in psychology and psychotherapy. In 1956 he was awarded a BA in psychology and sociology, in 1957 a BA honours in psychology and an MA in experimental psychology and in 1960 a PhD in clinical psychology — all from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He became a part-time psychologist with the Mental Health Society in Johannesburg in 1958–59.