Arnold Lazarus and Multimodal Therapy

Arnold Allan Lazarus was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932 to Benjamin and Rachel Lazarus. He was also raised and educated there at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. In 1956, he earned a B.A. degree with honors, his M.A. in 1957, and his Ph.D. in 1960 all in clinical psychology. His doctoral dissertation included for the first time systematic desensitization and had been conducted in groups. He later married Daphne Ann Kessel, with whom he has a son and daughter.

In 1959, he began a private practice in Johannesburg, South Africa. He came to the United States in 1966 as the director of the Behavior Therapy Institute in Sausalito, California. He published a book Behavior Therapy Techniques with Joseph Wolpe in 1966, as well. The following year he became a professor at Temple University Medical School as a professor of behavioral science. After becoming a professor and chairman of the psychology department at Rutgers......

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