Michael J. Mahoney was born on Feb. 22, 1946, in Streator, Illinois, USA. He had been at the forefront of psychotherapy theory for the past 30 years, first in the cognitive revolution and now via constructivist frameworks.
Dr. Mahoney earned his Ph.D. in 1972 at Stanford University. His 1974 book Cognition and Behavior Modification was one of the pioneering contributions to the "cognitive revolution" in psychology. Dr. Mahoney's work had encompassed a wide range of interest, including theoretical and philosophical issues, cognition, self psychology, self-control, basic processes in human development, psychotherapy process, psychology of science, health and sport psychology, and the sciences of complexity.
He was a Fellow in four divisions of the American Psychological Association, for whom he had also served as a G. Stanley Hall Lecturer and a Master Lecture Series presenter on psychotherapy process. A charter member of the American Psychological Society, Dr. Mahoney was elected to Fellow status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1989 "for significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of basic processes in human psychological development and psychotherapy".
Dr. Mahoney had served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals. He was the author or editor of 20 books, the most recent being Scientist as Subject (2004), Constructive Psychotherapy (2003), Human Change Processes (1991), Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies (1995), and Cognition and psychotherapy (2nd ed.)(2004), Constructivism in Psychotherapy (1995). In 1996 he had founded the Society for Constructivism in the Human Sciences and its journal is currently read in more than 30 countries.
At Andy's, Denton, Texas (April 3, 2005)
