Donald J. Kiesler + May 16, 2007
KIESLER Dr. Donald J. Kiesler, Ph.D., Professor
Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, died May
16, 2007. He was predeceased by his infant daughter, Rachel Hall Kiesler. He is
survived by his wife, E. Allison Hall Kiesler; three children, Sarah Hall
Kiesler, Benjamin Hall Kiesler and Barry Donald Kiesler. He was born in 1933 in
Louisville, Kentucky to parents John Valentine Kiesler and Mildred Foushee
Kiesler, both deceased. Dr. Kiesler is also survived by his three brothers, John
Valentine Kiesler Jr. of Columbia, Maryland, Dr. Thomas A. Kiesler of Rockville,
Maryland, and Michael J. Kiesler of St. Louis, Missouri. As a research
psychologist, Dr. Kiesler was internationally recognized as a seminal authority
in study of contemporary interpersonal psychotherapy. In 1973, Dr. Kiesler
assumed directorship of VCU's doctoral program in clinical psychology, and
spearheaded its accreditation in 1975 by the American Psychological Association
as the first accredited doctoral clinical program in the Commonwealth of
Virginia. Dr. Kiesler received his bachelor's degree in 1958 from Bellarmine
University in Louisville, Kentucky and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1963
from the University of Illinois. Before arriving at VCU in 1973, he held
research and academic positions at Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute in Madison,
the University of Iowa, and Emory University. Upon his retirement in 1999, he
continued to conduct research at VCU's Medical College of Virginia in the
physician patient interpersonal relationship.
Richmond Times-Dispatch from 5/18/2007 - 5/19/2007.
In the person-centered/psychotherapy research,
we know him from his collaboration with Carl Rogers on the Wisconsin project,
his articulation of the uniformity myths in psychotherapy research, his
ground-breaking book on the measurement of psychotherapy process, and for the
last 30 years of his career, his core contributions to the development of
interpersonal theory, measurement and psychotherapy. We have lost another
important voice from our community.
Robert Elliott
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