Biography of Dick Price,
Co-founder of Esalen Institute

Copyright © 2014, 2020 by John Francis Callahan for The Gestalt Legacy Project. All rights reserved. For private use only. This material may be reproduced for personal, non-commercial purposes if all copyright notations are retained without alteration. Not to be reproduced for profitable use or distribution. Do not publish or sell in any form, by itself or as part of another work, without express written permission. Previously published with the title, "The Life and Practice of Richard Price: A Gestalt Biography," ISBN: 978-1-312-06228-3 

Foreword:
This biography has been republished online in order to commemorate the life and practice of Richard "Dick" Price, the co-founder and director of Esalen Institute. It is partially based upon a dissertation written by Barclay James "Eric" Erikson. That text was almost impossible to read, in large part because it was an academic prerequisite. Even so, it contained some of the best information about Dick -- especially about his early life. After Eric's death his dissertation was extensively edited, with the agreement of his heir, in order to add missing details and make it more readable. Now that edited edition has been published online for the first time to allow access by a wider audience. 

The current text has not gone without criticism -- primarily that it is obscure and over-analytic. While those criticisms are not totally without merit, the importance of this resource cannot be questioned because of its valuable insights into Dick's life and his method of Gestalt Practice. 

Since its initial publication, additional resources have become available to supplement this text, including several articles published on Medium: https://medium.com/@Callaban 

Numerous books have been published by The Gestalt Legacy Project, available here: https://amazon.com/author/gestalt.legacy.project 

And there is a Facebook page that is dedicated to Dick's practice, here: 
https://www.facebook.com/Gestalt.Praxis 

In order to read Dick's biography, please click the "Text" button at the top of this page. 

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