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

The Program in Individual, Organizational, and Community Transformation

Oriented towards practice in a unique way, our Psy.D. program offers a substantive theoretical core informing the way students approach their research and practica. Following the forty-year departmental tradition of rigorous and creative scholarly inquiry alongside personal growth, the doctoral program is designed to cultivate self-awareness and academic depth. By developing reflective disciplines of mind - self-awareness, analysis, radical questioning, contemplation, gratitude - students gain skills to facilitate similar habits in others, both individually and communally.

Postmodern thought and the history of ideas contribute to elucidate the logic, ethics, and aesthetics of contemporary culture and psychological life. In this case, one would understand reflexivity as a turning back, a recognition of one’s place in social relations, to see oneself as others see one. This leads to a more social understanding of the self, a form of understanding indebted to the study of history, language and culture.  Drawing on both of these reflexive forms, the research component is pivotal to the program.

Our training emphasizes human-science approaches for which the generation of knowledge is a collaborative effort. Qualitative methods hold priority -- students will engage phenomenological, transpersonal, critical, historical, action-research, discursive, and hermeneutic approaches in their course of study. In addition to research, students may explore integrative coursework addressing topics such as: human consciousness, psychospirituality and transformation, human development, mind and body, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, group process, epistemology and ethics, and approaches to community.

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