The Impact of Climate Change … on Our Minds

2019-01-23T14:43:46-08:00

School of Psychology Dives into the Thinking -- and Feeling -- Around Global Warming The state of the planet was a major topic of discussion during the School of Psychology's recent Winter Session in Santa Barbara, as both Clinical and Media Psychology explored how news of climate change is landing on our collective psyches. Dr. Garry Hare Media Psychology faculty member Garry Hare, PhD, was interviewed by the Santa Barbara Independent about why it's so hard to get people to make changes that could impact the current climate trajectory: Media and political psychologists like Dr. Garry Hare, a Fielding [...]

The Impact of Climate Change … on Our Minds2019-01-23T14:43:46-08:00

Two Clinical Psychology Faculty Retiring

2019-01-15T10:54:54-08:00

Kjell Rudestam and Judith Schoenholtz-Read Wrap up 35 Years at Fielding Clinical Psychology faculty members Dr. Kjell Rudestam and Dr. Judith Schoenholtz-Read were honored by colleagues, staff, and students at a Winter Session community meeting this week, as they head into retirement after 35 years at Fielding. Dr. Kjell Rudestam Kjell Rudestam, PhD, ABPP, DSC, is a practicing psychologist with two best-selling texts on research methods and expertise in psychopathology, crisis intervention, and couples and family therapy. Judith Schoenholtz-Read, EdD, is an expert in feminist theory and practice, qualitative research methods and narrative inquiry. Fellow faculty members sent them [...]

Two Clinical Psychology Faculty Retiring2019-01-15T10:54:54-08:00

Fielding Re-Publishes ‘The Quiet Profession’

2019-01-11T12:20:21-08:00

We are pleased to announce the publication of The Quiet Profession by Fielding University Press. Originally published by MacMillan in 1985, the book by Fielding alum and faculty member Anne Alonso had been out of print for quite some time when President Katrina Rogers and Fielding's Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Study initiated the process of recovering the rights. Anne Alonso, PhD For this second edition, Anne’s text was updated with a Preface by beloved School of Psychology faculty member Margaret Cramer, director of the Alonso Center, and an Introduction by faculty emeritus Sam Osherson, the Alonso Center’s former director. [...]

Fielding Re-Publishes ‘The Quiet Profession’2019-01-11T12:20:21-08:00

Jung Scholar Sandford Drob Presents Book in New York

2018-09-26T13:44:01-07:00

Analytical Psychology Club of NY Invites Fielding Faculty Member to Speak NEW YORK CITY — On Saturday, October 13, 2018, the Kristine Mann Library of the Analytical Psychology Club of New York will host Sanford Drob, PhD, and his new publication Archetype of the Absolute: The Union of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosophy and Psychology, published by Fielding University Press. The event will be held at its facility on 28 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y. In Archetype of the Absolute, Dr. Drob traces the “problem of the opposites” in the history of ideas, theorizing that apparent oppositions in philosophy, including those that underlie competing paradigms in [...]

Jung Scholar Sandford Drob Presents Book in New York2018-09-26T13:44:01-07:00

Bringing Qualitative Research to the Forefront

2018-03-23T08:32:41-07:00

Clinical Psychology faculty member Ruthellen Josselson co-authors APA's new reporting standards For decades, qualitative research has been a stepchild within psychology, dismissed as not quite “scientific” or soft-headed. Its value in understanding human beings holistically and contextually was disregarded in favor of variables that could be operationalized. Ruthellen Josselson Fielding Clinical Psychology faculty member Ruthellen Josselson was one of the founders of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry (SQIP) which, after a long political struggle, became a section of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, then called the Division of Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics. In 2014, the name of [...]

Bringing Qualitative Research to the Forefront2018-03-23T08:32:41-07:00

Dr. Lauren Mizock Discusses Prince Harry’s Grief on NPR

2017-04-27T09:09:58-07:00

Britain's Prince William, left, and Prince Harry lost their mother when they were 15 and 12, respectively. (Philippe Huguen/Pool Photo via AP) Clinical Psychology faculty member Dr. Lauren Mizock was featured on NPR's On Point program April 20 to discuss "Grief, Recovery and Personal Treatment." The segment surrounded the recent public announcement by Britain's Prince Harry that he had finally sought therapy to help him process the death of his mother, Princess Diana -- who died when he was only 12. Joined by Bryony Gordon, a feature writer and columnist for the Daily Telegraph, and Paul Gionfriddo, president and CEO [...]

Dr. Lauren Mizock Discusses Prince Harry’s Grief on NPR2017-04-27T09:09:58-07:00

Anger Kinetics: Exploring Teen Emotions

2017-03-06T14:55:30-08:00

Let's be honest: Academic research can sometimes be dull. But not when you're doing a Structured Anger Assessment Interview with Dr. Anthony Greene. “I’ve had occasions when 20 minutes into the interview, someone says, ‘If you ask me that question again, I’m going to smack you in the face,’” he says. “I’ve had to stop the interview.” Dr. Anthony Greene Dr. Greene oversees Fielding’s in-house research project Young Voices, an ongoing investigation into anger experience and expression in adolescents. As part of the project, Dr. Greene trains his students to administer the anger-assessment interview, which was developed by one of [...]

Anger Kinetics: Exploring Teen Emotions2017-03-06T14:55:30-08:00

Guest Speaker: Mindful Awareness in Relational Psychotherapy

2017-01-20T11:10:49-08:00

Fielding's Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies Presents "Inquiring Deeply" with Dr. Marjorie Schuman Blending the knowledge of contemporary psychoanalysis with the wisdom of Buddhist view, this presentation on January 20 will explore how mindfulness can be integrated into psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy as an aspect of self-reflection rather than as clinical technique. Specifically, it will describe and illustrate how systematic introspection and self-inquiry can be used to amplify and unpack the psychodynamic dimensions of experience. Marjorie Schuman, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst specializing in mindfulness-informed psychodynamic/relational psychotherapy. Currently in private practice in Santa Barbara, Dr. Schuman is [...]

Guest Speaker: Mindful Awareness in Relational Psychotherapy2017-01-20T11:10:49-08:00

Filmmaker Brings Critically Acclaimed ‘Tangerine’ to Fielding

2016-01-29T22:43:19-08:00

Students, faculty, and friends of Fielding got a behind-the-scenes view of Hollywood—in more ways than one—when filmmaker Sean Baker screened his critically acclaimed film “Tangerine” at Winter Session last week. Shot on an iPhone and described by the New York Times as “tough yet tender, gritty yet gorgeous,” the Independent film depicts a day in the life of two transgender prostitutes in Hollywood. It was presented by Fielding’s Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies, whose director Sam Osherson saw the film last year and was moved by it. “It portrayed the lives of people who are marginalized in a way I had [...]

Filmmaker Brings Critically Acclaimed ‘Tangerine’ to Fielding2016-01-29T22:43:19-08:00
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