Publications
Her publications include Don't Push the River (It Flows by Itself), a first-person account of Stevens' investigations of Gestalt Therapy. It shows the author during a period of several months in association with Fritz Perls at Perls' Gestalt Institute of Canada at Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island, in 1969. Barry Stevens describes both Gestalt therapy theory and practice and her relationship with Fritz Perls in a sensitive way. Thus creating a vivid image of Perls in the last months of his life.
In addition she explored Zen Buddhism, the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti, and American Indian religious practices in an effort "to deepen and expand personal experience and work through difficulties." "We have to turn ourselves upside down and reverse our approach to life." Alternating with episodes from her earlier days, it became a "best-seller" in the circles of humanistic psychology.
Her earliest published work is "Hideaway Island" a loosely autobiographical novel about a woman on the far end of Long Island.
She met Nakata Yoshimatsu, a former valet of Jack London, in Hawaii in the 1930s, and helped him to write down his recollections.And she wrote an article about Nakata that was published posthumously in 2000.
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