Max Hammer
The Late Dr. Max Hammer (June 16, 1930-June 14, 2011), was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Maine. This profile page is being managed by his eldest son, Dr. Barry Hammer.
Dr. Max Hammer, was a distinguished Psychology Professor and supervisor of graduate students and interns in the clinical psychology, psychotherapy, and counseling practice training program of the Psychology Department at the University of Maine, for many years, as well as a respected psychotherapist and clinical psychology consultant and diagnostician. Dr. Max Hammer was one of the original core clinicians who founded and developed the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Maine, beginning in the 1960’s. In his work with graduate and undergraduate students in that program, Dr. Max Hammer provided a refreshing Humanistic and Transpersonal perspective, with an emphasis on flexible, warmly caring, empathic responsiveness to the needs of the individual psychotherapy client.
Max Hammer was the primary author or editor of the following books (with secondary contributing authors Dr. Barry Hammer and Dr. Alan C. Butler for the first two books listed below): 1) Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation (Houston, Texas: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Company, 2014; ISBN 978-1-62857-075-5). 2) Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication (Houston, Texas: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Company, 2014; ISBN: 978-1-61897-590-4). 3) The Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy with Specific Disorders (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1972; ISBN: 0-398-02539-8). 4) The Practice of Psychotherapy with Children (Edited by Dr. Max Hammer with co-editor Dr. Arthur M. Kaplan; Homewood, Illinois: The Dorsey Press, 1967. No ISBN is listed; the Library of Congress Number is: 67-21007)
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The theory and practice of psychotherapy with specific disorders Hardcover – January 1, 1972
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Purchasing Links for paperback and electronic versions of Max Hammer's other books, 1) Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication. 2) Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation"
https://www.amazon.com/Deepening-Your-Personal-Relationships-Communication-ebook/dp/B00IF9TEBY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1510325474&sr=1-1
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https://www.amazon.com/Psychological-Healing-Creative-Self-Understanding-Self-Transformation-ebook/dp/B00IF9RS4O/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Psychological-Healing-Creative-Self-Understanding-Self-Transformation/dp/162857075X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Some related articles co-authored by Dr. Max Hammer and his eldest son, Dr. Barry Hammer can be accessed by using any of the following URL links:
https://independent.academia.edu/BarryHammer
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry_Hammer?ev=hdr_xprf
Max Hammer's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJDp6DMTNsCeJhRVGWOq1Q/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0
Dr. Max Hammer's books and articles present compassionate, trenchant, experiential insights into the human psyche that incorporate deeply spiritual, Transpersonal, and Humanistic perspectives. These insights can be very valuable for psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, experimental research psychologists, counselors, social workers, clergy, other human services professionals, as well as non-professionals who are seeking informed, practicable, self-help for their individual healthy psychological development and interpersonal relationships. Max Hammer's insights are also applicable to compassionately transforming human society for the better, involving a collective as well as individual and relational shift from narcissistic egocentrism to the development of greater psychological maturity and spiritual awakening.
Barry Hammer offers transformational life coaching and relationship advising services, based on the insights of his late father, Dr. Max Hammer, and Barry's own related insights. If interested, email: mhbj58@gmail.com
Dr. Max Hammer, was a distinguished Psychology Professor and supervisor of graduate students and interns in the clinical psychology, psychotherapy, and counseling practice training program of the Psychology Department at the University of Maine, for many years, as well as a respected psychotherapist and clinical psychology consultant and diagnostician. Dr. Max Hammer was one of the original core clinicians who founded and developed the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Maine, beginning in the 1960’s. In his work with graduate and undergraduate students in that program, Dr. Max Hammer provided a refreshing Humanistic and Transpersonal perspective, with an emphasis on flexible, warmly caring, empathic responsiveness to the needs of the individual psychotherapy client.
Max Hammer was the primary author or editor of the following books (with secondary contributing authors Dr. Barry Hammer and Dr. Alan C. Butler for the first two books listed below): 1) Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation (Houston, Texas: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Company, 2014; ISBN 978-1-62857-075-5). 2) Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication (Houston, Texas: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Company, 2014; ISBN: 978-1-61897-590-4). 3) The Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy with Specific Disorders (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1972; ISBN: 0-398-02539-8). 4) The Practice of Psychotherapy with Children (Edited by Dr. Max Hammer with co-editor Dr. Arthur M. Kaplan; Homewood, Illinois: The Dorsey Press, 1967. No ISBN is listed; the Library of Congress Number is: 67-21007)
Purchasing Links for Books by Max Hammer, PhD
The Practice of Psychotherapy with Children (Dorsey series in... (ExLib)
https://www.ebay.com/i/193124108177?chn=ps
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&biw=1366&bih=654&tbm=shop&ei=Gy7ZXtraMvXAytMPsJmYuAg&q=The+Dorsey+Press%2C+Max+Hammer&oq=The+Dorsey+Press%2C+Max+Hammer&gs_l=psy-ab-sh.12...4777.6441.0.8646.21.10.0.0.0.0.83.704.10.10.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab-sh..15.0.0....0.ElD8O7xttq8#spd=15587919662467021249
The theory and practice of psychotherapy with specific disorders Hardcover – January 1, 1972
https://www.amazon.com/theory-practice-psychotherapy-specific-disorders/dp/0398025398/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Theory+and+Practice+of+Psychotherapy+with+Specific+Disorders&qid=1591292374&s=books&sr=1-1
Purchasing Links for paperback and electronic versions of Max Hammer's other books, 1) Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication. 2) Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation"
https://www.amazon.com/Deepening-Your-Personal-Relationships-Communication-ebook/dp/B00IF9TEBY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1510325474&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/Deepening-Your-Personal-Relationships-Communication/dp/1618975900/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1510325474&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/Psychological-Healing-Creative-Self-Understanding-Self-Transformation-ebook/dp/B00IF9RS4O/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Psychological-Healing-Creative-Self-Understanding-Self-Transformation/dp/162857075X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Some related articles co-authored by Dr. Max Hammer and his eldest son, Dr. Barry Hammer can be accessed by using any of the following URL links:
https://independent.academia.edu/BarryHammer
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry_Hammer?ev=hdr_xprf
Max Hammer's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJDp6DMTNsCeJhRVGWOq1Q/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0
Dr. Max Hammer's books and articles present compassionate, trenchant, experiential insights into the human psyche that incorporate deeply spiritual, Transpersonal, and Humanistic perspectives. These insights can be very valuable for psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, experimental research psychologists, counselors, social workers, clergy, other human services professionals, as well as non-professionals who are seeking informed, practicable, self-help for their individual healthy psychological development and interpersonal relationships. Max Hammer's insights are also applicable to compassionately transforming human society for the better, involving a collective as well as individual and relational shift from narcissistic egocentrism to the development of greater psychological maturity and spiritual awakening.
Barry Hammer offers transformational life coaching and relationship advising services, based on the insights of his late father, Dr. Max Hammer, and Barry's own related insights. If interested, email: mhbj58@gmail.com
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ASIN : B0006BR07O
Publisher : Dorsey Press; First Edition (January 1, 1967)
Language : English
Hardcover : 294 pages
Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
Preface:
The purpose of this book is to provide the practicing psychotherapist, the student of psychotherapy, and those in other allied professions and occupations--such as parents, educators, physicians, and clergypersons who are concerned with the psychological well-being of children--with a comprehensive reference text by which they might better understand, manage, or treat emotional disturbance in children, and thereby help them to actualize the natural abilities, fulfilling developmental growth potentials, and productive, adaptive, life coping skills inherent in such children.
by Max Hammer (Author), Arthur M. Kaplan (Author)
Product details
ASIN : B0006BR07O
Publisher : Dorsey Press; First Edition (January 1, 1967)
Language : English
Hardcover : 294 pages
Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
Preface:
The purpose of this book is to provide the practicing psychotherapist, the student of psychotherapy, and those in other allied professions and occupations--such as parents, educators, physicians, and clergypersons who are concerned with the psychological well-being of children--with a comprehensive reference text by which they might better understand, manage, or treat emotional disturbance in children, and thereby help them to actualize the natural abilities, fulfilling developmental growth potentials, and productive, adaptive, life coping skills inherent in such children.
There are only two basic ways to deal with the blues (i.e., any painful psychological state or uncomfortable emotional feeling). One is for our conscious awareness to penetrate beyond distancing, presumptive, speculative, conceptual interpretations into direct, deeper, contact with the experiential truth of the emotional feelings or experiential contents that are actually arising within oneself, in the here and now present moment, which is termed, the way of Being; whereas the other approach is termed, the way of becoming, and reflects, basically, the attempt to escape from the full, direct/unmediated experiential contact or full conscious awareness of the blues by superimposing some more positive, idealized, self-consoling, distracting, interpretation, self-definition, self-conceptualization, or pleasurable compensatory feeling or sensation upon it, which may be referred to as the pinks, for purposes of clarifying this discussion. The pinks represent a kind of “rose-colored” conceptualized, distortedly exaggerated, idealized, proficient view of your own individual being and emotional feelings, or experiential life; whereas the blues represent a deficient view of your individual being....
(ISBN: 978-1-62857-075-5)
Are you ready for psychological healing? This book is your liberating guide to psychological growth, including self-understanding, self-transformation, healing psychologically painful inner conflicts, as well as achieving psychological and spiritual fulfillment. Some aspects of psychological health and fulfillment clarified in this book include, authenticity, sincerity, integrity, creativity, intuition, empathy, inspiration, vitality, courage, strength of character, unselfish love (or warmhearted caring), emotional security, inner wholeness, and fulfillment.
Readers will discover a new understanding of effective psychotherapy, groundbreaking diagnostic psychological testing research, as well as the distinction between the ego self-concept, the experiential self, and the transpersonal self (the real self, the relational self, or the holistic self).
The authors deeply explored their own psychological pain and experiential truth to write this book, as a way of helping readers achieve greater self-understanding, fulfillment, and liberation from psychological pain. These principles of psychological self-understanding and healing self-transformation can also enhance the development of interpersonal relationships, as well as facilitate effective and fulfilling ways of living in society. Self-transformation at your fingertips!
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(ISBN: 978-1-61897-590-4)
Looking for Better Relationships? Let the Experts Tell You How!
Deepening Your Personal Relationships was written by three experts in the field. Their combined expertise will help you in Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication, which will be beneficial in all types of relationships.
Everyone wants to improve and deepen their relationships. The book explains how to achieve healthy and fulfilling interpersonal relationships by using effective communication, empathy, shared transformational development, and constructive conflict resolution to achieve this aim. Deepening Your Personal Relationships provides original, meaningful, and transformational insights that are especially helpful in understanding how to overcome our subconscious resistance against emotional intimacy and good communication. The goal is to understand how good relationships can produce enhanced levels of spiritual development, psychological healing, self-understanding, creative functioning, inner peace, happiness, and ultimately, fulfillment in life. A section on improving society through enhancing interpersonal relationships is also included.
Thus, readers wanting to enhance their personal relationships, gain insight into transformational self-help, and achieve social transformation will find this book especially helpful. The authors anticipate that this book will also be of keen interest to professional relationship counselors, including marriage counselors, family counselors, and conflict mediators, as well as community organizers and social activists.
(ISBN: 978-1-62857-075-5)
Are you ready for psychological healing? This book is your liberating guide to psychological growth, including self-understanding, self-transformation, healing psychologically painful inner conflicts, as well as achieving psychological and spiritual fulfillment. Some aspects of psychological health and fulfillment clarified in this book include, authenticity, sincerity, integrity, creativity, intuition, empathy, inspiration, vitality, courage, strength of character, unselfish love (or warmhearted caring), emotional security, inner wholeness, and fulfillment.
Readers will discover a new understanding of effective psychotherapy, groundbreaking diagnostic psychological testing research, as well as the distinction between the ego self-concept, the experiential self, and the transpersonal self (the real self, the relational self, or the holistic self).
The authors deeply explored their own psychological pain and experiential truth to write this book, as a way of helping readers achieve greater self-understanding, fulfillment, and liberation from psychological pain. These principles of psychological self-understanding and healing self-transformation can also enhance the development of interpersonal relationships, as well as facilitate effective and fulfilling ways of living in society. Self-transformation at your fingertips!
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DOI Link:
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.123.3.363-a
Book Description:
This book is unique in several basic ways. It presents a theoretical discussion of the essence of the psychotherapeutic process, which goes beyond just the remediation of pathological symptoms, and also acquaints the reader with the essence of the growth process, which enables one to continue one's personal growth beyond the removal of pathological symptoms to personal maturity, fulfillment, and self-realization.
This book is also unique in that its format approaches the understanding of the therapeutic process through the understanding of the treatment of patients with specific psychopathologies discussed by consistently successful professional psychotherapists.
This book is unique as well in that in addition to the various major neurotic and psychotic disorders, it also covers areas rarely, if ever, found discussed in other psychotherapy books, such as psychodynamics and psychotherapy of suicidal patients, psychotherapy of patients with psychosomatic disorders, psychotherapy of patients with acting-out disorders, psychotherapy of patients with sexual disorders, psychotherapy with the aged, and an entire chapter devoted to establishig some basic criteria for an effective psychotherapy process.
Essentially, this book is designed to serve as a source book or reference book for professional psychotherapists, and students studying to be psychotherapists in such fields as psychology, psychiatry and social work, and it could also be useful as a textbook for advanced courses in psychotherapy, as well as a supplemental text for basic introductory courses in psychotherapy. Each of the contributors has deliberately taken the pains to try to communicate in a way that will be intelligible to the student, as well as offer material that will be new, informative, and challenging to the more sophisticated clinician. This book goes beyond being what may be called a how-to-do-it type primer. It is not meant to be a structured "cookbook" or set of formulas blueprinting the course of psychotherapy.
Each contributor to this book is a renowned authority in the area of the treatment of the specific disorder about which he is writing, and he shares with the reader his understanding of the basic nature of the disorder, along with the therapeutic considerations and insights that he has found to be most valuable in dealing effectively and successfully with persons with this particular kind of pathology. Case illustrations are appropriately supplied in order to help clarify for the reader how this contributing therapist deals with the particular kinds of patients under discussion. However, the suggestions made by each contributor should in no way be interpreted as the only way such problems can be approached and resolved. Rather, it only represents the way that one outstanding clinician tends to deal with the special problems involved in the treatment of persons with the particular disorder under discussion, and it is meant to serve only as a helpful guide for the reader.
As the reader may have already gathered, the emphasis in this book is primarily focused on the professional and practical aspects rather than on the academic aspects of psychotherapy. It is meant to fill a void and be consistent with a growing trend today in which professional clinicians and students studying to be psychotherapists want material to study that will provide them with the necessary skills most relevant to exactly what they will be doing in their professional career, rather than the strongly academic emphasis to which they have been exposed at most educational institutions.
This book recognizes that effective psychotherapy is not something that can be learned by being exposed only to theories, techniques, or research findings. Psychotherapy is not just a doing, or a predetermined set of techniques, as such, and, therefore, there is no formula, or systematic defined procedure, that has to be mastered. Rather, it involves an empathically sensitive, genuinely caring, engaged, being-with or intimate experiential communion, and the understanding of patients that naturally arises from that, from which then flows the therapist's appropriate responses. One has to truly, and deeply, here before one can act appropriately and meaningfully. Thus, the best way for one to really come to learn anything significant about effective psychotherapy is to have those clinicians who are truly masters of the art and science of psychotherapy share with others their sensitive and profound understanding of the nature of psychotherapy with patients with particular pathological symptoms.