Louis Ormont (1918 – November 15, 2008) was an American psychologist and one of the earliest practitioners of
group psychotherapy
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based on a
psychoanalytic
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model.
Educated at
Temple University
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and at
Yale University
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, Ormont founded
The Center for Group Studies in
New York City
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in 1989. He was also a prolific playwright who produced more than fifty manuscripts for the stage, television, and films.
Bibliography
Ormont actively published papers from 1958 through 2004 in the
American Journal of Psychotherapy
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, The British Journal of Medical Psychology,
Marriage and Family Living,
The Psychoanalytic Review
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,
American Journal of Psychiatry
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The first volume was issued in 1844, at which time it was k ...
, other journals, and the following books:
* Ormont, L.R., Hunt, M. & Corman, R. (1964). The Talking Cure. New York: Harper and Row.
* Ormont, L.R. & Stean, H. (1981). The Practice of Conjoint Treatment. New York: Behavioral Science Press.
* Ormont, L.R. (1992). The Group Therapy Experience. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
* Ormont, L.R., (2001). The Technique of Group Treatment. Connecticut: Psychosocial Press.
References
External links
* https://www.groupcenter.org/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090505062835/http://www.ormont.org/default.cfm
Finding aid for Ormont's papers at Adelphi UniversityOrmont's obituary
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1918 births
2008 deaths
20th-century American psychologists
Temple University alumni
Yale University alumni