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         Jim received his B.A. in psychology from the College of the Holy Cross, his M.A. and Ph.D. in developmental Psychology from Clark University.  His educational background is in Cognitive Development, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Literature, and Aesthetics.  His principal interest lies in the examination and development of human symbolic capacities, specifically, those processes by which we endow experience with meaning, value, and purpose.  He is particularly interested in how young children make meaning in their lives and the relationship between these early symbolic capacities and adult development.  He does research on children's drawing and artwork, adult symbolism under special conditions, and the effectiveness of various teaching techniques including seminar discussions for children and adults. 

 

Influential Works

The Way of a Pilgrim (Anonymous)

Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)

The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)
I and Thou (Martin Buber)
An Essay on Man (Ernst Cassirer)
The Interpretation of Dreams and Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Sigmund Freud)
Magister Ludi and Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
The Culture of Narcissism (Christopher Lasch)
The Earthsea Trilogy (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Toward a Psychology of Being (Abraham H. Maslow)
The Equilibration of Cognitive Structures (Jean Piaget)
Oration on the Dignity of Man (Pico della Mirandola)

Lost in the Cosmos (Walker Percy)

The Republic and Timaeus (Plato)
Symbol Formation (Heinz Werner & Bernard Kaplan)

 

 

Jim Dillon, Ph. D.

 

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E-mail:  jdillon@westga.edu
Phone:  678-839-0607
Office:  Melson 116