Class Notes: 1971
Steven J. Hendlin ’71 has been practicing psychotherapy as a licensed clinical psychologist in Newport Beach, California, for the last 50 years. He continues seeing patients both in his office and online at age 76.
At Berkeley, he was distracted by but immersed in the political, counter-cultural, and social activities taking place, including sitting in the vortex of the birth of the “psychedelic sound” of the Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, Credence Clearwater, and many others. He participated in the People’s Park protest in the Spring of 1970 and ended up being arrested with a hundred others and spending an afternoon in Santa Rita Prison. Two years later, he received a payment of $200 for a suit against the County for “cruel and unusual punishment” for the treatment of the those arrested, who were made to lay face down on a yard of dust and gravel for two hours.
None of these distractions prevented him from completing his degree in three and a half years, in December, 1970. He was elected Phi Beta Kappa in May of 1971 and formally a member of the graduating class of 1971.
He received his MA in psychology at the United States International University in San Diego in 1973 and then began his doctoral work in clinical psychology. In what he believes continues to be the all-time documented record for the fastest for anyone at any accredited, in-residence program anywhere in the country in clinical psychology, he completed a Ph.D. in a year and nine months. All course work, practicum, research, completed dissertation and oral defense of it, including a one-year 1500 hour clinical internship. While all work was completed in 21 months, his formal graduation came in June, 1975, or two complete years.
In the same year, he was licensed as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in California at age 26. He had the results of his dissertation published in a reputable academic journal the next year. He was then licensed as a psychologist in 1977.
He is the author of four books and hundreds of articles, columns, papers and reviews for both professional and lay audiences. He is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and on the Board of Editors of the APA journal, “Practice Innovations.” Read more at: https://www.hendlin.net/
Highlights of James “Guy” Mansfield’s decade of volunteering in search and rescue can be found in the book A Dog’s Devotion: True Adventures of a K9 Search and Rescue Team, co-authored with Suzanne Elshult, to be published in the fall of 2022 by Lyons Press. In 2018, Guy co-founded the Washington State SAR Planning Unit, specializing in applying probability-based search theory to assist Washington State counties and national parks in managing extended or complex search and rescue missions.
Class Secretary: Thomas MacBride, tmacbride@gmssr.com
