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Cereta Elizabeth Perry (February 5, 1919 – April 29, 2010) was an African-American humanistic psychologist.

Early life

Perry was the daughter of George Perry and Rosa P. Lee and had a brother named Earl Alphonso Perry. She was raised in Washington, DC.

Career

Perry taught in DC Public Schools, Maryland Public Schools, Howard University, and the Merrill-Palmer Institute.

Perry had a strong interest in humanistic psychology.

Clark Moustakas and Cereta Perry taught together at Merrill-Palmer in at least 1971-1972.

Clark Moustakas and Cereta Perry developed a close friendship while faculty members at the Merrill-Palmer Institutes in Detroit. Together, Moustakas and Perry established the Merrill-Palmer Institutes' Enhancing Human Potential (EHP) Certification and the M.A. degree in Humanistic and Clinical Psychology.

In 1977, Perry completed her PhD from the Humanistic Psychology Institute.

In response to the closure of the Merrill Palmer Institute in 1980, she co-founded the Center for Humanistic Studies Graduate School across the street along with Clark Moustakas, Diane Blau, and Bruce Douglass.

She taught at the Union Institute and supervised many PhD dissertations from at least 1987-2005.

Character

Perry was known for her wisdom and her efforts to uncover superficiality and defensiveness. She was also noted by her students her "love, encouragement, and patience", her "strength and conviction". Her students repeatedly regarded her as inspirational.

Published works

• Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1966). "Helping prospective teacher become". Educational Leadership. 24 (3): 261–263.
• Sigel, Irving E.; Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1966), Psycholinguistic diversity among so-called culturally deprived children, Merrill-Palmer Institute
• Sigel, Irving E.; Perry, Cereta (1968). "Psycholinguistic diversity among "culturally deprived" children". American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 38 (1). American Psychological Association: 122–126. doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1968.tb00563.x. ISSN 1939-0025. OCLC 4650495890. PMID 5637324. Republished in Chess, Stella; Thomas, Alexander, eds. (1969). Annual progress in child psychiatry and child development, 1969. Brunner/Mazel. pp. 196–201. OCLC 1147998331.
• Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1969). Client internalizing and/or client externalizing consistency or change: Its effect on therapeutic process and outcome (Thesis). Michigan State University. OCLC 20173691.
• Moustakas, Clark E.; Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1973), I wish I knew how it would feel to be free: Humanizing learning in public schools, Detroit: Merrill-Palmer Institute
• Moustakas, Clark E.; Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1973). Learning to be free. A Spectrum book. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-527457-6. OCLC 628379.
• Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1974). "Can human relations be taught through a formalized program?". Educational Leadership. 32 (1): 27–30.
• Nett, Denise A; Perry, Cereta (1977). The adolescent in process of becoming (Ph. D. in Psychology). Humanistic Psychology Institute. OCLC 43622767.
• Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1991), A heuristic search through self-confrontation, Detroit: Center for Humanistic Studies. Excerpt published in Moustakas 1995, p. 32-34.

Supervised dissertations

• Clark, Jon Brian (1987). Duet: The experience of the psychologically androgynous male (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 144932567.
• Stratman, Carol Ann (1989). The experience of personal power for women (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781746277.
• Brewster, Leigh Stewart (1990). Sibling chemical codependence: The struggle for self (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781748321.
• Katz, Linda Elizabeth (1990). Suicide healed: The experience of group therapy for survivors of suicide (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781747352.
• Schaver, Hava (1990). A heuristic exploration of the experience of personal power (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 959026364.
• Zimmer, Lucy Mange (1990). What is the mother's experience of nurturing her young child: A phenomenological study (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 959026653.
• Liebler, Nancy Cullen (1992). The experience of fatherhood (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 959026612.
• Richmond, Sheila D (1992). What is the experience of shame? A phenomenological exploration (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 959027274.
• Weatherford, Mary E (1992). The experience of relinquishing personal power for women (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781752958.
• Bihun, Deborah Foster (1993). Walking into darkness: The experience of feeling unknown to others (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781754713.
• Blau, Cheryl Beth (1993). The magical teacher (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 959027054.
• Paskiewicz, Judith M. Kleinbrook (1993). The supervisory relationship: The supervisor's experience (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781754241.
• Snider, Ann Marie (1993). The sexually abused child's experience of being removed from home as recalled in adult years (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 959027853.
• Yurk, Diana Kirr (1993). Resistance reconceptualized: Self-growth (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781755073.
• Junglas, M. Diane (1994). The experience of becoming an integrated self through Rubenfeld Synergy® (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 959027732.
• Fraser, Joyce Ellen (1995). The experience of discovering womanhood for the unmothered female child (PhD thesis). Union Institute. OCLC 781760604.
• Schiff, Barbara Ann (1996). Marital therapists' experience of their work on the therapist's marriage: A heuristic investigation (PhD thesis). Union Institute. ISBN 978-0-591-20718-7. OCLC 781767067.
• Fishman, Marci Beth (1997). A woman's experience of coming out during marriage (PhD thesis). Union Institute. ISBN 978-0-591-55542-4. OCLC 781769317.
• Trombley, Richard J (1997). Weaving tapestries of life: The group psychotherapy client's experience of extragroup interpersonal relationships (PhD thesis). Union Institute. ISBN 978-0-591-46535-8. OCLC 959028027.
• Kaiser, Thomas Alan (1998). What is the experience of homosexual males in coping with discrimination? (PhD thesis). Union Institute. ISBN 978-0-599-06679-3. OCLC 781772564.
• Bach, Lee Gould (1999). The experience of making difficult, life-changing decisions: A phenomenological exploration (PhD thesis). Union Institute. ISBN 978-0-599-18828-0. OCLC 959028306.
• Supan, Marita-Constance (1999). Proud skin: A woman's experience of living from the incest scar. A phenomenological investigation of incest-healed (PhD thesis). Union Institute. ISBN 978-0-599-18842-6. OCLC 959028308.
• Trenkamp, Judith Ann (1999). Empty chairs: The experience of relapse for recovering alcoholic women. A heuristic investigation (PhD thesis). Union Institute. ISBN 978-0-599-41234-7. OCLC 781772706.
• Connelly, Yvonne L (2002). The bicultural experience: A heuristic inquiry (PhD thesis). Union Institute & University. ISBN 978-0-493-94788-4. OCLC 959024699.
• Harmon, Kristina (2004). Navigating a river of words: An educator's experience of professional dialogue (PhD thesis). Union Institute & University. ISBN 978-0-496-87055-4. OCLC 959024499.
• Snider-Feldmesser, Laura (2004). The aphasic survivors' psychological experience of stroke and rehabilitation (PhD thesis). OCLC 144937090.
• Smolen, Sally A (2005). Lost possibilities: Psychological factors of women grieving childlessness at mid-life (PhD thesis). Union Institute & University. ISBN 978-0-542-04453-3. OCLC 959024748.

Further reading

• Bransky, Malcolm L. (1975). "Book Review: Learning to Be Free". Young Children. 30 (3): 218–219. ISSN 0044-0728. OCLC 5792573349.
• Kremer, Jurgen (1985). "Saybrook Institute Dissertations, 1977-1983". Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 25 (1). SAGE: 109–128. doi:10.1177/0022167885251009. ISSN 0022-1678. S2CID 143180253.
• Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr. William McKee Records, 1952, OCLC 1006509574

External links

Photographs

• 1972, with Clark Moustakas
• 1974
• May 1991, with Clark Moustakas at Center for Humanistic Studies Alumni Retreat

Category:1919 births Category:2010 deaths Category:African-American psychologists Category:American women psychologists Category:Humanistic psychologists