Arthur Lerner (1915- ) was a poet and professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. The collection consists of manuscripts and proofs of the book Poetry in the therapeutic experience (1978), edited by Dr. Arthur Lerner.

Lerner was born on January 10, 1915; AB, Roosevelt University, 1942; Ph.D, University of Southern California, 1968; in 1970 became a lecturer at UCLA Extension; became a poet and professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles; founded and became director of the Poetry Therapy Institute in 1972; published works include Rhymed and unrhymed (1965), Follow-up (1967), Psychoanalytically oriented criticism of three American poets: Poe, Whitman and Aiken (1970), and Starting points (1971).

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

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