About the founder
Fred Newman, Ph.D. was a practicing therapist for almost 40 years. He was the founder of social therapy, which is now recognized as a revolutionary practice of psychotherapy. As principal trainer at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, Newman mentored and supervised hundreds of practitioners in this approach. He received his Ph.D. in analytic philosophy and the foundations of mathematics from Stanford University in 1962, and left academia in 1969 to pursue community and political organizing. For three decades, Newman's work has been the catalyst for the creation of sustained, community-based developmental psychological, educational and cultural organizations. Among his books on social therapy are Let's Develop: A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth and Performance of a Lifetime: A Practical-Philosophical Guide to the Joyous Life. Fred Newman died in 2011.