Don Hanlon Johnson earned his Ph.D. (1971) in Philosophy at Yale University. He founded the first graduate degree program in the field of Somatics, which was housed at Antioch University before it moved to CIIS. He is the author of four books, including the just-released Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams (North Atlantic Books, September 2006), and several journal articles on the central role of bodily experience in providing a unique understanding of critical social, spiritual, and psychological issues. He is also the editor of a series of foundational texts in the field of Somatics which are being published conjointly by CIIS and North Atlantic Books, the third and most recent of which is The Body in Psychotherapy: Inquiries in Somatic Psychology. Since 1988, he has been the director of a study group in Somatics whose members include founders or heirs of late founders of nine major schools of Somatics work. The aim of the group has been to improve educational quality and further research projects in the field.

• Don Hanlon Johnson's website
• Read more about Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams
• Read Don Hanlon Johnson's lecture, "Psychotherapy as a Practice of Everyday Life," delivered at the Japan Institute of Psychotherapy in Tokyo on January 7, 2001.
• Read a profile of Don Hanlon Johnson.
• Email: djohnson@ciis.edu

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