Ed Mendelowitz

Background

About Ed Mendelowitz

Ed Mendelowitz received his doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in Berkeley where he worked closely with the preeminent psychotherapist and author Rollo May. He is Associate Editor of the Humanistic Psychologist and serves on the Existenz Executive Council for the Karl Jaspers Society of North America. Dr. Mendelowitz has contributed to some of the major compendiums of existential practice and thought. His writing explores the commingling of psychology and clinical narrative with art, literature, music, cinema, religion, and philosophy. His book ETHICS AND LAO-TZU has been called "an extraordinary moral narrative” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Coles and "a compendium of wisdom from an astonishing variety of sources” by the renowned psychoanalyst and author Allen Wheelis. Mendelowitz is the recipient of the Rollo May Award for “independent and outstanding pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology.” He lives in Greater Los Angeles where he works as an occasional essayist while maintaining a part-time practice in existential-humanistic psychotherapy.