Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Robert Akeret

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Robert "Robi" Akeret (1928-2016)

At MacDowell worked on his book, What The Hell Happened? Pushing The Boundaries Of Psychotherapy. His fourth book, Tales From A Traveling Couch, was translated into eight languages. He is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute, where he trained with Rollo May and Erich Fromm.

Studios

Monday Music

Robert Akeret worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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