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Cereta Elizabeth Perry (February 5, 1919 – April 29, 2010)[1] was an African-American humanistic psychologist.

Early life

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Perry was the daughter of George Perry and Rosa P. Lee and had a brother named Earl Alphonso Perry. She was raised in Washington, DC.[2]

Career

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Perry taught in DC Public Schools, Maryland Public Schools, Howard University, and the Merrill-Palmer Institute.[2]

Perry had a strong interest in humanistic psychology.[3]

Clark Moustakas and Cereta Perry taught together at Merrill-Palmer in at least 1971-1972.[4]

Clark Moustakas and Cereta Perry developed a close friendship while faculty members at the Merrill-Palmer Institutes in Detroit.[3][5]: 32  Together, Moustakas and Perry established the Merrill-Palmer Institutes' Enhancing Human Potential (EHP) Certification and the M.A. degree in Humanistic and Clinical Psychology.[3][6]

In 1977, Perry completed her PhD from the Humanistic Psychology Institute.[7][8][verification needed]

In response to the closure of the Merrill Palmer Institute in 1980, she co-founded the Center for Humanistic Studies Graduate School across the street along with Clark Moustakas, Diane Blau, and Bruce Douglass.[9][3]

She taught at the Union Institute and supervised many PhD dissertations from at least 1987-2005.[10]

Character

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Perry was known for her wisdom and her efforts to uncover superficiality and defensiveness.[11] She was also noted by her students her "love, encouragement, and patience",[12][13] her "strength and conviction".[14] Her students repeatedly regarded her as inspirational.[15][14]

Published works

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  • Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1966). "Helping prospective teacher become". Educational Leadership. 24 (3): 261–263.
  • Sigel, Irving E.; Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1966), Psycholinguistic diversity among so-called culturally deprived children, Merrill-Palmer Institute
  • Sigel, Irving E.; Perry, Cereta (1968). "Psycholinguistic diversity among "culturally deprived" children". American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 38 (1). American Psychological Association: 122–126. doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1968.tb00563.x. ISSN 1939-0025. OCLC 4650495890. PMID 5637324. Republished in Chess, Stella; Thomas, Alexander, eds. (1969). Annual progress in child psychiatry and child development, 1969. Brunner/Mazel. pp. 196–201. OCLC 1147998331.
  • Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1969). Client internalizing and/or client externalizing consistency or change: Its effect on therapeutic process and outcome (Thesis). Michigan State University. OCLC 20173691.
  • Moustakas, Clark E.; Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1973), I wish I knew how it would feel to be free: Humanizing learning in public schools, Detroit: Merrill-Palmer Institute
  • Moustakas, Clark E.; Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1973). Learning to be free. A Spectrum book. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-527457-6. OCLC 628379.
  • Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1974). "Can human relations be taught through a formalized program?". Educational Leadership. 32 (1): 27–30.
  • Nett, Denise A; Perry, Cereta (1977). The adolescent in process of becoming (Ph. D. in Psychology). Humanistic Psychology Institute. OCLC 43622767.
  • Perry, Cereta Elizabeth (1991), A heuristic search through self-confrontation, Detroit: Center for Humanistic Studies. Excerpt published in Moustakas 1995, p. 32-34.[5]: xviii, 241 

Supervised dissertations

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References

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  1. ^ "Cereta Perry Obituary". Tributes.com. 22 May 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Cereta Perry - Obituary". Washington Post. 23 May 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2020 – via Legacy.com. Also available at Tributes.com
  3. ^ a b c d Moustakas Johnson Library (2007). "Clark Moustakas & Cereta Perry at Merrill-Palmer, 1972". Flickr. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Our History". Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  5. ^ a b Moustakas, Clark E. (1995). Being-In, Being-For, Being-With. Jason Aronson. ISBN 978-1-4616-2756-2.
  6. ^ Moustakas Johnson Library (2007). "Cereta Perry, 1974". Flickr. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  7. ^ Nett & Perry 1977.
  8. ^ Kremer 1985.
  9. ^ Blau, Diane; Bach, Lee; Scott, Marjorie; Rubin, Shawn (2013). "Clark Moustakas (1923–2012): Scholar, teacher, colleague and friend". The Humanistic Psychologist. 41 (1). American Psychological Association: 98. doi:10.1080/08873267.2013.752695. ISSN 1547-3333.
  10. ^ See § Supervised dissertations
  11. ^ Olesnavage, John (2009). Our Boundary. Dog Ear Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-59858-991-7. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  12. ^ Brewster 1990.
  13. ^ See also Trenkamp 1999
  14. ^ a b Fishman 1997.
  15. ^ Yurk 1993.

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Category:1919 births Category:2010 deaths Category:African-American psychologists Category:American women psychologists Category:Humanistic psychologists