Vienna. The family left Austria due to the rise of the Nazi party and the danger to Jewish families such as his. They first fled to the Netherlands and later emigrated to the United States on the SS Paris (1916) on its last voyage to New York, arriving January 11, 1939. The family changed their name to Gendlin upon their arrival in the United States, and in English it is pronounced JEHND-lin (not with the hard "g" as in German pronunciation). Gendlin went on to serve in the United States Navy and to become a U.S. citizen. Gendlin lived in New York state until his death. He had three children: Gerry and Judith from his first marriage with wife Fran; and a daughter, Elissa, with his second wife, Mary Hendricks-Gendlin. Gerry Gendlin was an expert on Russia and served as an associate professor in the department of History, Politics, Languages and Cultures at Edinboro University in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Mary worked closely with Gendlin and served for many years as the director of The Focusing Institute. Mary Hendricks-Gendlin died in 2015. Awards 1970: "Distinguished Professional Award in Psychology and Psychotherapy", from Division 29 of the American Psychological Association (Division of Psychotherapy) 2000: "Charlotte and Karl Bühler Award" (given jointly to Gendlin and The Focusing Institute), from Division 32 of the American Psychological Association (the Society for Humanistic Psychology) 2007: "Viktor Frankl Award of the City of Vienna for outstanding achievements in the field of meaning-oriented humanistic psychotherapy", from the Viktor Frankl Foundation 2011: "Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology", from Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) 2016: "Lifetime Achievement", from the World Association for Person Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling 2016: "Lifetime Achievement", from the US Association for Body Psychotherapy 2021: "Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement", from Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) Bibliography Gendlin's philosophical works include: Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning: a Philosophical and Psychological Approach to the Subjective (1962) Thinking Beyond Patterns: Body, Language, and Situations (1991) The Primacy of the body, not the primacy of perception: How the body knows the situation and philosophy (1992) Crossing and Dipping: Some Terms for Approaching the Interface between Natural Understanding and Logical Formulation (1995) A Process Model (1997) The Responsive Order: A New Empiricism (1997) How philosophy cannot appeal to experience,