Stewart Kiritz
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Stewart Kiritz, Ph.D. played a minor role in the history of Gestalt Therapy. Born in New York City, he was educated at UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco Medical Center, and Stanford University. At UCSF, Kiritz was research assistant to the famed nonverbal behavior researcher Paul Ekman. On post-doc at Stanford, Kiritz published a widely quoted article on the influence of social-environmental variables on physiology and health. He also was instrumental in the development of the Family Environment Inventory. From 1975 until 1981, Kiritz trained as a Gestalt therapist with Jim Simkin. He also studied briefly with the Gestalt therapy pioneer Isadore From in New York City in the early 1980's. Later, Kiritz led training workshops in Gestalt therapy at the Tokyo Psychotherapy Institute from 1997-2005.
Kiritz had a varied career in psychology, mostly as a popular clinical supervisor in a number of programs, and clinical director in several training settings, in addition to maintaining a private practice. For 21 years he ran a process group for the psychology interns at the Palo Alto VA Hospital APA Internship Program and supervised psychiatry residents at Stanford Medical School. He became emeritus in the Adjunct Clinical Faculty at Stanford Medical School in 2004. [psychology,gestalt therapy,psychotherapy]
