I have known Lars for many years as a committed, thoughtful and poetic psychologist and family therapist. He was one of Walter Kemplers first students in Scandinavia and has now written a book which – if it was a painting – would be titled “Homage for Walt”. And it is also that. An intelligent, serious description of Walt’s work and influence on many levels – personal as well as professional and political.
Walt would have loved and hated this book! He would have loved the fact that someone wrote about him and the next minute he would have started one of his usual puissant discussions over minor details and differences of understanding. But it would also have made him proud – hopefully as proud as he deserved to be!
For those of you who were fortunate enough to meet and encounter Walt it will be full of reminders of his extraordinary talent and skills and his understanding of human behavior, but this book is much more than an analysis of his work and philosophy. It is a travel journal from a man who takes not only his love and admiration for Walt seriously but also describes how deeply it influenced his life and work.
It is also a book about how society and our profession as psychotherapists has developed in ways that are more tainted with superficiality and methods than wisdom and as such it is not a mainstream book on psychotherapy or psychology.
I’m convinced that reading this book will enrich your thinking whether you belong to the aficionados who were fortunate enough to meet the man who introduced family therapy to Europe or just seek inspiration for your own thinking and work.

REMINDERS
OF PERSONAL ENCOUNTER
BY
LARS LINDAHL

The book is 400 p. and is available as “books-on-demand”

Yours,
Jesper Juul