Barry Hammer

Graduate Theological Union, Harvard Divinity School, University of Maine · history, religious studies, psychology, psychotherapy, counseling, chaplain, history,

This book focuses on the development of psychological self-understanding, healing psychologically painful inner conflicts, and the basis of psychological and spiritual fulfillment. Readers will discover a new understanding of effective psychotherapy, groundbreaking diagnostic psychological testing research, and the distinction between the ego self...

This book focuses on the development of psychological self-understanding, healing psychologically painful inner conflicts, and the basis of psychological and spiritual fulfillment. Readers will discover a new understanding of effective psychotherapy, transformational psychological self-help, groundbreaking diagnostic psychological testing research...

Press Release for my two published books: PRIMARY AUTHOR: DR. MAX HAMMER (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DR. BARRY J. HAMMER AND DR. ALAN C. BUTLER) THE TITLES OF OUR NEW BOOKS ARE: 1) “DEEPENING YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL INTIMACY AND GOOD COMMUNICATION” (ISBN: 978-1-61897-590-4) 2) “PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING THROUGH CREATIVE SELF-...

My blogs discuss the process of compassionately transforming individual life, personal relationships, and society. This involves developing true experiential self-understanding as the basis of liberating self-transformation, healing emotional pain and inner conflict, developing inner peace, happiness, creativity, spiritual awareness; as well as dev...

This is a sample of my recently published book, Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication. My Press Release for this book follows below: Contact: Ellen Green, Press Manager, Strategic Book Group - PressManager@StrategicBookGroup.com PRESS RELEASE (WITH VIDEO TRAILER EMBEDDED IN PDF VERSION ONLY;...

It has long been conjectured that the spectrum of color symbolically represents and encompasses the entire range of human psychological emotions and needs. Therefore, if that is true, a psychodynamic, symbolic, understanding of color perception could be the most expeditious means of understanding the composition and functioning of the entire human...

As an alternative to the prevalence of superficial sensationalism, vacuous escapism, hedonistic vulgarity, stale habitual routines, selfish greed, and divisive partisanship in much of contemporary culture and society, it would be worthwhile for soulful people, (i.e., people who feel inclined to explore deeply into the most ennobling, uplifting, asp...

This book is designed as a reference source for professional psychotherapists, and as a text for a course in psychotherapy. Its purpose is to reach students of psychology, psychiatry, and social work. It claims to "provide the reader with the newest, most creative and most effective" guidance in psychotherapeutic method. The approach is psychodynam...

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: In summary, the primary basis of psychological healing and emotional wellness, as well as psychologically healthy personal relationships and societal values, involves letting go of predetermined interpretations of our self and other individuals, and also letting go of distracting narcissistic mind chatter, so that we can c...

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: In summary, the primary basis of psychological healing and emotional wellness, as well as psychologically healthy personal relationships and societal values, involves letting go of predetermined interpretations of our self and other individuals, and also letting go of distracting narcissistic mind chatter, so that we can co...

This not yet published, copyrighted book [all rights reserved] presents many original insights into the development of psychologically healthy, fulfilling, spiritually uplifting, interpersonal relationships, and related principles of healthy psychological development and spiritual growth for individual persons. The insights presented in this docume...

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/themagichappens/2016/01/20/share-the-wealth-with-kellie-fitzgerald-and-barry-hammer Barry Hammer is interviewed by Kellie Fitzgerald on Blog Talk Radio

Love is not a conditional, selective, partial valuing of another individual, a conditional liking or judgmental extreme approval of the other. Love is not a selective relationship to only a part of the other individual, but, rather, it involves the nonjudgmental total unconditional acceptance of the other, related to as an indivisible wholeness. In...

No teacher, counselor, psychotherapist, analyst, or Guru (i.e., spiritual advisor and guide of whatever religion or philosophy) can ever know the truth of you as well as you can know it. The experiential truth of yourself has no predetermined, controlled, route to it. It is abiding within you from moment to moment, and no one else’s mind but yours...

In this two part audio recording, the late Dr. Max Hammer (1930-2011) discusses his inspiring experiential insights for finding inner peace, happiness, true love, and spiritual fulfillment by acknowledging that we naturally abide within God, as the one and only reality presence, power, and intelligence. This audio was originally recorded by Dr. Max...

Creativity is not something to be pursued, but rather, it is something which naturally comes to you when all effort-making and pursuing ends, for only then is the sense of separate self-awareness put at rest. Absence of controlled, habitual, predetermined, egocentric thinking and functioning enables new insights to arise creatively or originally, u...

This published article [all rights reserved] presents many original insights into the development of psychologically healthy, fulfilling, spiritually uplifting, interpersonal relationships, and related principles of healthy psychological development and spiritual growth for individual persons. The insights presented in this document should be very...

I, Dr. Barry Hammer, have just now compiled a YouTube Playlist of undated audio tapes (from a tape recorder), recorded many years ago by my beloved late father, Dr. Max Hammer (June 16, 1930-June 14, 2011) The compassionate insights discussed in these audio tapes are keys to effective psychotherapy or counseling work; healthy psychological developm...

Psychological health and maturity develops by reunifying all aspects of our inner psyche back into their original, natural, wholeness, and outwardly engaging in caring reconnection or non-dualistic communion with other individuals, phenomena, and activities in the world, as a way of restoring the natural indivisible wholeness of reality, which brid...

We are using the term archetype to refer to a metaphysical intelligence or an immaterial energy force of entelechy1 that purposively guides us to gradually fulfill the fullest range of potentials or capabilities that are built into the “fabric” or spiritual pattern of our inherent permanent being. For example, the archetype, or the purposive, self-...

Our productive work activities, and, indeed, our entire life, can become a truly beautiful artistic expression, or an expression of heart-fullness (wholeheartedness), when we permit the connective energy of heartfelt empathic communion, genuine caring, or true love to flow through us and amplify or “turn on” the core of our own individual being.

Our productive work activities, and, indeed, our entire life, can become a truly beautiful artistic expression, or an expression of heart-fullness (wholeheartedness), when we permit the connective energy of heartfelt empathic communion, genuine caring, or true love to flow through us and amplify or “turn on” the core of our own individual being.

Our productive work activities, and, indeed, our entire life, can become a truly beautiful artistic expression, or an expression of heart-fullness (wholeheartedness), when we permit the connective energy of heartfelt empathic communion, genuine caring, or true love to flow through us and amplify or “turn on” the core of our own individual being.

Our productive work activities, and, indeed, our entire life, can become a truly beautiful artistic expression, or an expression of heart-fullness (wholeheartedness), when we permit the connective energy of heartfelt empathic communion, genuine caring, or true love to flow through us and amplify or “turn on” the core of our own individual being.

Our productive work activities, and, indeed, our entire life, can become a truly beautiful artistic expression, or an expression of heart-fullness (wholeheartedness), when we permit the connective energy of heartfelt empathic communion, genuine caring, or true love to flow through us and amplify or “turn on” the core of our own individual being.

The more deeply we invest our heart, mind, and senses, in communion with other life presences, experiences, and activities, in the world, the more does the energy-heart core of our own individual and relational being become stirred or “magnetically” amplified through that relational connection. That relational amplification of our individual energy...

The more deeply we invest our heart, mind, and senses, in communion with other life presences, experiences, and activities, in the world, the more does the energy-heart core of our own individual and relational being become stirred or “magnetically” amplified through that relational connection. That relational amplification of our individual energy...

The more deeply we invest our heart, mind, and senses, in communion with other life presences, experiences, and activities, in the world, the more does the energy-heart core of our own individual and relational being become stirred or “magnetically” amplified through that relational connection. That relational amplification of our individual energy...

The more deeply we invest our heart, mind, and senses, in communion with other life presences, experiences, and activities, in the world, the more does the energy-heart core of our own individual and relational being become stirred or “magnetically” amplified through that relational connection. That relational amplification of our individual energy...

Our productive work activities, and, indeed, our entire life, can become a truly beautiful artistic expression, or an expression of heart-fullness (wholeheartedness), when we permit the connective energy of heartfelt empathic communion, genuine caring, or true love to flow through us and amplify or “turn on” the core of our own individual being.

Our productive work activities, and, indeed, our entire life, can become a truly beautiful artistic expression, or an expression of heart-fullness (wholeheartedness), when we permit the connective energy of heartfelt empathic communion, genuine caring, or true love to flow through us and amplify or “turn on” the core of our own individual being.

This article discusses how using a psychological workbook or journaling can provide psychotherapeutic insights and help individuals develop greater genuine self-understanding, healthy psychological development, and enhanced creative functioning. We authors sincerely believe that this Psychological Workbook document will be informative and valuable...

An important key to emotional self-healing is to fully embrace our emotional pain and relationship pain with an open, nonjudgmental, nonpartisan, compassionate, warmly loving heart. That warmhearted, compassionate, loving embrace of our emotional pain releases, untwists, or dissolves it back into its underlying substratum of undivided, pure, clear,...

This is a proposal for teaching and leading class discussions of Great Books and Great Ideas, which draws on our own teaching experience and our discussions with other passionately dedicated teachers. Our basic objective is to encourage students to develop a passionate lifelong love for learning and disciplined, critical intellectual inquiry throug...

The only reliable way to distinguish between healthy real appetites, or constructive natural urges, and addictive, toxic, false cravings is to, at least at times, tune out the loudly demanding, argumentative, insecure and deficient-feeling, voice of the selfish ego, so that we can intuitively “hear” the “still small voice” of our soul, our true sel...

I find that the best kind of creative insight and inspiration, in any field of endeavor, comes from communing deeply with other life presences, in heartfelt, open-minded, empathic attunement with them. The more deeply we invest our heart, mind, and senses, in communion with other life presences, experiences, and activities, in the world, the more d...

Developing intuition is most likely to occur when our consciousness is relaxed, open, receptive, fully immersed in the present moment of experience, not cluttered and distracted by predetermined thoughts, presumptive beliefs, rigid expectations, other mind chatter, and related exaggeratedly egocentric emotional dramas. When the mind and energy-hear...

Our passionate energies are meant to be united with the calming, compassionate, energies of love, as part of the indivisible wholeness of our being, rather than functioning apart from our inner center of love, relaxed peace, harmonious equilibrium, and holistic cohesive integrity, in resistive opposition to it. The only way for the passionate energ...

Individuals who naturally belong to the same extended soul family often experience, not necessarily fully consciously, an intuited sense of inner familiarity, belonging, and deep attraction with one another, involving compatible, resonating, or mutually amplifying energy vibrations. Those compatibly resonating energy vibrations exert a kind of “mag...

The energy of sexuality and erotic sensual attraction is a physical expression of the sacred energy of love, or the urge for union, and the actual experience of union, or intimate communion of our energies at every level of our being. The urge for physical intimacy with another individual can naturally be united to, and enhanced or deepened by, int...

An important key to emotional self-healing is to fully embrace our emotional pain and relationship pain with an open, nonjudgmental, nonpartisan, compassionate, warmly loving heart. That warmhearted, compassionate, loving embrace of our emotional pain releases, untwists, or dissolves it back into its underlying substratum of undivided, pure, clear,...

Developing empathy is possible only if we are willing to at least temporarily or occasionally let go of separate egocentric self-awareness, and the incessant mind chatter and narcissistic emotional dramas that that involves, so that we are not distracted from non-dualistically tuning into the experiential states and living energy presence of anothe...

Material products should be infused with a “living” energy presence of true beauty, creative inspiration, and insight into the deeper core aspects of reality; otherwise, if material products lack true vitality or experiential depth of being, people who produce, consume, or observe such products can become like inwardly deadened machines, overly rou...

Festivals of light such as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa (African American), Diwali (India), etc., symbolize the rebirth and awakening of the sacred flame of love in the hearts of individual persons, as well as in the collective heart of humanity. This living flame of love and goodness can serve to transform this world for the better, in many ways,...

We cannot find inner and outer peace by turning inward, in any kind of selfish self-seeking and narcissistic self-preoccupation, because introspective self-awareness blocks our conscious life energy from naturally flowing outward to others, and that blocked energy contracts or clenches the emotional heart center level of our being, producing fear,...

Many years ago, when I was in high school chemistry lab, I was assigned to do a litmus test to determine where various chemicals fell on the continuum from acidic to alkaline or other base composition. I now view that litmus test as a metaphor for learning to discern how to live in harmonious alignment with my individual and relational core integri...

Love is an expansive connective energy that enables individuals to experience the sublime grandeur of the core of their own being by sharing that relational energy with others. Empathically tuning into what is experientially genuine, naturally good, or fully alive in another life presence arouses similar qualities in our own being, through a proces...

Links for inspirational blogs that I wrote in 2014, which are posted at http://mysteryschoolsinternational.com

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authormarketingideasradio/2014/01/29/third-interview-with-barry-hammer The third and final interview in a series of three conversations between author Barry Hammer and host Patrick Morgan. PRIMARY AUTHOR: DR. MAX HAMMER (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DR. BARRY J. HAMMER AND DR. ALAN C. BUTLER) THE TITLES OF OUR NEW BOOKS ARE:...

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authormarketingideasradio/2014/01/28/second-interview-with-barry-hammer The second in a series of three conversations between author Barry Hammer and host Patrick Morgan. PRIMARY AUTHOR: DR. MAX HAMMER (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DR. BARRY J. HAMMER AND DR. ALAN C. BUTLER) THE TITLES OF OUR NEW BOOKS ARE: 1) “DEEPENING YOU...

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authormarketingideasradio/2014/01/27/first-interview-with-barry-hammer The first in a series of three conversations between author Barry Hammer and host Patrick Morgan. PRIMARY AUTHOR: DR. MAX HAMMER (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DR. BARRY J. HAMMER AND DR. ALAN C. BUTLER) THE TITLES OF OUR NEW BOOKS ARE: 1) “DEEPENING YOUR...

Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication (ISBN: 978-1-61897-590-4) Looking for Better Relationships? Let the Experts Tell You How! Deepening Your Personal Relationships was written by three experts in the field. Their combined expertise will help you in Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Commun...

So many friendships and romantic relationships fail because people permit themselves to “grow apart”, or gradually drift apart, without ever taking responsibility to deeply reveal themselves to the other person, and deeply tune into the other person, empathically, and intuitively, in order to directly experience what the other person means by the p...

A cohesive human community would be a “seamless whole” in the sense of its members viewing themselves and functioning as related individuals, like a big extended family or “tribe,” rather than associating with one another in a mostly detached, uncaring, superficial manner. However, this inclusive, united, sense of human community should not be perm...

Are you ready for psychological healing? This book is your liberating guide to psychological growth, including self-understanding, self-transformation, healing psychological pain, as well as achieving psychological and spiritual fulfillment. Some aspects of psychological health and fulfillment discussed in this book include, authenticity, sincerity...

Deepening Your Personal Relationships was written by three experts in the field. Their combined expertise will help you in Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication, which will be beneficial in all types of relationships. The book explains how to achieve healthy and fulfilling interpersonal relationships by using effective communication,...

Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation (ISBN: 978-1-62857-075-5) Are you ready for psychological healing? This book is your liberating guide to psychological growth, including self-understanding, self-transformation, healing psychologically painful inner conflicts, as well as achieving psychological and sp...

Theory development and research in the area of psychologically healthy competition has been impeded by the lack of a psychometrically sound instrument. Four studies were conducted as part of a research program designed to remedy this deficiency by constructing an individual difference measure of general personal development competitive attitude wit...

By entering into a process of empathic communion or one-mindedness with an author’s experience, as reflected in the text, a reader can accurately and clearly understand the meaning intended by that author, at least to some extent. No text understanding can be fully comprehensive, exhaustive, precise, or universally identical and unvarying, because...

Theory testing in the area of hypercompetitiveness has been impeded by the lack of an adequate psychometric instrument. Four studies were conducted as part of an initial research program designed to remedy this deficiency by constructing an individual difference measure of general hypercompetitive attitude with satisfactory psychometric properties....

Since Jewish children are typically taught that all aspects of creation reflect the absolute goodness and intrinsic preciousness or inherent value of God as the Creator, they learn to despise no one and no thing, but rather are encouraged to cherish other people and all wholesome, constructive aspects of life in an unconditional manner. This peacem...

In my reading of sections of this book, Chaim (Hayyim) Vital’s superior soul-type, (which he refers to as the neshomah hadasha or neshoma elyonah) seems similar to the tragic hero of the Hellenic and Elizabethan theater. Both the tragic hero and Vital’s master soul are larger-than life daring personalities, who are beset by a major flaw that someti...

Attempted to determine if primary and secondary psychopathic groups could be distinguished by the absence or presence of guilt as a significant determinant of criminal behavior. The EPPS was used to measure the psychological need patterns of 110 Ss. The Need for Abasement score was used as the measure of self-blame or guilt. 27 Ss were placed in th...

Describes the essential processes of the transpersonal or transcendent aspects of human consciousness and proposes that these processes are identical with the core aspects of psychotherapy which lead to cure or growth. Psychopathology is portrayed as a rejection of the unity of consciousness by the splitting of the self into subject and object and...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Graduate Theological Union, 1992. Includes bibliography leaves: 597-611. Typescript (photocopy) Thesis cage copy is in 3 volumes.

The purpose of this book is to provide the practicing psychotherapist, the student of psychotherapy, and those in other allied professions and occupations--such as educators, physicians, and clergymen who are concerned with the psychological well-being of children--with a comprehensive text by which they might better understand, manage, or treat em...