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Psy.D. in Individual, Organizational and Community Transformation: A Program in Consciousness and Society
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The Faculty
Welcome to the Psy.D faculty web page. This page lists the Psy.D. faculty and provides a brief overview of their teaching, research and writing interests. To view more detailed faculty bios, click the link for a specific faculty member or visit the Psychology Department website.	Christopher Aanstoos (PhD, Duquesne University) - phenomenology of consciousness, human development and potentiality, and the historical and philosophical foundations of psychology Jim Dillon (PhD, Clark University) - development of human symbolic capacities, psychological responses to myth, symbol, and literature; children's drawing and artwork; adult symbolism Eric Dodson (Ph.D, Duquesne University) - psychology of teaching, being inspired, phenomenology, existentialism, rethinking the meaning of academic intellectuality in humanistic terms; the significance of living in a postmodern, technological world; decadence Tobin Hart (PhD, University of Massachusetts) - consciousness, educational transformation and renewal, psychotherapy, spirituality, the wisdom traditions, and ways of knowing that could be described as contemplative, intuitive, creative, or empathic Daniel Helminiak (PhD, University of Texas) - western philosophical tradition; Lonergan’s analysis of human consciousness or spirit to elaborate the psychology of spirituality or transpersonal psychology Mark Kunkel (PhD, University of Tennessee) - the fundamentals of psychology as they apply to psychotherapy and assessment Kareen Ror Malone (PhD, University of Dallas) - philosophy of science, gender studies, social construction, race relations, and Lacanian psychoanalysis Lisa Osbeck (PhD, Georgetown University) - historical and philosophical approaches to psychological studies; questions relating to epistemology and methodology as they interface with classical and contemporary accounts of human cognition and the philosophy of science. Alan Pope (PhD, Duquesne University) - models and methods of personal transformation; Buddhist psychology, midlife bereavement, and cross-cultural studies Donadrian L. Rice, Department Chair (PhD, Saybrook Graduate School) - psychology of the mind and body, dreams, martial arts, Biofeedback/Neurofeedback, and psychotherapy. Jeffrey S. Reber (PhD, Brigham Young University) - critical thinking about psychology, the assumptions and implications of evolutionary psychology, and the meaning and possibility of altruism. Larry Schor (PhD, Auburn University) - deepening the understanding of human suffering and healing, particularly in relation to existential, mytho-poetic, and artistic forms of therapy.

Psy.D. in Individual, Organizational and Community Transformation:
A Program in Consciousness and Society

The Faculty

Welcome to the Psy.D faculty web page. This page lists the Psy.D. faculty and provides a brief overview of their teaching, research and writing interests.

To view more detailed faculty bios, click the link for a specific faculty member or visit the Psychology Department website.

Christopher Aanstoos (PhD, Duquesne University) - phenomenology of consciousness, human development and potentiality, and the historical and philosophical foundations of psychology

Jim Dillon (PhD, Clark University) - development of human symbolic capacities, psychological responses to myth, symbol, and literature; children's drawing and artwork; adult symbolism

Eric Dodson (Ph.D, Duquesne University) - psychology of teaching, being inspired, phenomenology, existentialism, rethinking the meaning of academic intellectuality in humanistic terms; the significance of living in a postmodern, technological world; decadence

Tobin Hart (PhD, University of Massachusetts) - consciousness, educational transformation and renewal, psychotherapy, spirituality, the wisdom traditions, and ways of knowing that could be described as contemplative, intuitive, creative, or empathic

Daniel Helminiak (PhD, University of Texas) - western philosophical tradition; Lonergan’s analysis of human consciousness or spirit to elaborate the psychology of spirituality or transpersonal psychology

Mark Kunkel (PhD, University of Tennessee) - the fundamentals of psychology as they apply to psychotherapy and assessment

Kareen Ror Malone (PhD, University of Dallas) - philosophy of science, gender studies, social construction, race relations, and Lacanian psychoanalysis

Lisa Osbeck (PhD, Georgetown University) - historical and philosophical approaches to psychological studies; questions relating to epistemology and methodology as they interface with classical and contemporary accounts of human cognition and the philosophy of science.

Alan Pope (PhD, Duquesne University) - models and methods of personal transformation; Buddhist psychology, midlife bereavement, and cross-cultural studies

Donadrian L. Rice, Department Chair (PhD, Saybrook Graduate School) - psychology of the mind and body, dreams, martial arts, Biofeedback/Neurofeedback, and psychotherapy.

Jeffrey S. Reber (PhD, Brigham Young University) - critical thinking about psychology, the assumptions and implications of evolutionary psychology, and the meaning and possibility of altruism.

Larry Schor (PhD, Auburn University) - deepening the understanding of human suffering and healing, particularly in relation to existential, mytho-poetic, and artistic forms of therapy.