Stone, Hal 1927-

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STONE, Hal 1927-

PERSONAL:

Born 1927, in Detroit, MI; married Sidra Levi Winkelman (a psychotherapist), 1977; children: (from previous relationship) Joshua David, Judith Tamar. Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1947, Ph.D., 1953.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Mendocino County, CA. Office—Voice Dialogue International, P.O. Box 604, Albion, CA 95410; fax: 707-937-4119. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Psychotherapist in private practice, 1957—; Jungian analyst with Jung Institute, 1961-74; Center for the Healing Arts, Los Angeles, CA, founder and director, 1973-79; leader of seminars with wife, Sidra Stone, 1977—. Diplomat, American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology. Military service: U.S. Army, 1953-57, became captain, served as a clinical psychologist.

WRITINGS:

Embracing Heaven and Earth: A Personal Odyssey, Delos (Albion, CA), 1985.

(With wife, Sidra Winkleman) Embracing Our Selves, DeVorss (Sherman Oaks, CA), 1985.

(With wife, Sidra Winkleman) Embracing Each Other: Relationship as Teacher, Healer, and Guide, New World Library (San Rafael, CA), 1989.

(With wife, Sidra Stone) Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset, HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco, CA), 1993.

(With wife, Sidra L. Stone) Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship, New World Library (Novato, CA), 2000.

Also coauthor with wife, Sidra Stone, of a series of self-help video and audiocassette tapes.

SIDELIGHTS:

Hal Stone and his wife, Sidra Winkleman Stone, both psychotherapists, have been teaching, counseling, and writing together for many years. Perhaps their best-known creation is the "Voice Dialogue system," which is based on the idea that every individual's psyche is a composite of many different, distinct internal personalities. In the book Embracing Our Selves, the two lay out their theory of multiple selves and explain how people can be better adjusted if they learn to accept each one of their personalities.

The Stones also draw on their multiple-selves theory in the self-help book Embracing Each Other: Relationship as Teacher, Healer, and Guide. This book illustrates how people can fall into unhealthy "bonding patterns" with their partners; for example, one person might play out the child role, while the other might respond by being the parent. In order to have a fuller, healthier relationship, the Stones write, the partners must recognize these patterns and break out of them. As a contributor wrote in West Coast Review of Books, in Embracing Each Other the Stones "have presented their powerful message in an accessible, nonjudgmental style with a refreshing lack of psychological jargon."

Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship addresses similar themes but puts a stronger emphasis on the idea that to make a relationship work, both partners have to make the relationship a priority in their lives. "They offer good basic advice, and their view of the relationship as a 'third entity' needing attention and nurture is sound," commented a Publishers Weekly contributor.