About the Author

Robert R. Carkhuff, Ph.D., is world renowned social scientist who has been generating the science of human behavior for more than five decades and is best known historically for his “helping models”. Carkhuff and his lifelong associate, Bernard G. Berenson, Ph.D, generated, The New Science of Possibilities, (HRD Press, 2000) which opened the doors to freedom building in the 21st century and inspired freedomblog.com.

Among more than 100 publications produced by Carkhuff, his early works, Helping and Human Relations (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969) and The Development of Human Resources (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971) are still considered classics. The Art of Helping (HRD Press, 1971), now in its 9th edition, 2009, has sold more than 1,000,000 copies and has been translated into numerous languages. Carkhuff has been recognized as one of the “most-cited” social scientists in the 20th century.