Evan Pritchard, an author and musician of Native American extraction,
has been the contributing editor to a number of books in the field of addiction
and recovery, including Abused by Dee Anna Parrish, Vicious Circles
also with Dee Anna Parrish, and The Journey Toward Complete Recovery by
Dr. Michael Picucci.
He has also acted as editing consultant for author of Deep
Healing and "grandfather of the relaxation tape," Dr. Emmit Miller, "the
funnybone doctor" Dr. Bernie Siegal, Dr. Marilyn Rosannes Barrett (who was
Fritz Perls' analyst!) Dr. Patch Adams, Dr. Jean Houston (on an article that was
later incorporated in A Mythic Life), and many others.
His own critically acclaimed book Secrets of Wholehearted Thinking,
published in 1994, was originally intended as a "guide to recovery of the complete
person," as so when he saw the early version of Michael Picucci's work on Complete
Recovery a few years later, he recognized the brilliance of it, and offered
to help to rewrite it in a way that would have a greater emotional and intellectual
impact on the world, which is exactly what happened.
In addition to editing the text, Evan Pritchard coined the term
APT, Authentic Process Therapy, and proposed and designed the Trauma-Addiction-Recovery
chart, which has since been adopted by several national support groups and
agencies. Picucci and Pritchard completed the entire work in only six months.
Evan Pritchard is best known for his book No Word For Time:
The Way of the Algonquin People from Council Oak Books, which has just been
re-released in an expanded edition this year. The community healing methods described
in this book closely parallel many of the ideas adopted by The Institute for Authentic
Process Healing.
Later this year, Council Oak will also publish his Native New
Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. His own "Sunheart"
website will be up and running in the near future.
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