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About the Author
Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D.
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Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary humanistic psychology. He is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook Graduate School, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Schneider is presently editor of The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and a member of the editorial boards of the Humanistic Psychologist, Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice (2002-2004), the Review of Existential Psychiatry and Psychology, Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, the Society for Laingian Studies, The International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, and the Psychotherapy Patient. Dr. Schneider is also past president and founding member of the newly formed Existential-Humanistic Institute of San Francisco.
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Dr. Schneider has published over 70 articles and chapters and has authored/edited five books—The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature (Plenum, 1990; Humanity Books, 1999, paperback); Horror and the Holy: Wisdom-teachings of the Monster Tale (Open Court, 1993); The Psychology of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective (co-authored with Rollo May, McGraw-Hill, 1995), The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research, and Practice (2001, Sage Publishing Co.), and Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, Mystery, and the Fluid Center of Life (June, 2004, Paragon House). In March 1998 Dr. Schneider wrote the lead article in the American Psychologist entitled, “Toward a Science of the Heart: Romanticism and the Revival of Psychology,” and he completed (with Larry Leitner) the chapter on Humanistic psychotherapies for the Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy (Academic Press, 2002). Dr. Schneider also wrote the chapter on “Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapies” for the second edition of the widely distributed Essential Psychotherapies (2003) edited by Alan Gurman and Stanley Messer. Dr. Schneider’s most recent honors include listing in Marquis “Who’s Who in America”, “Who’s Who in the World” (2004), and the Rollo May Award for “outstanding and independent pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology” awarded by the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Schneider is featured conducting Existential Psychotherapy for the American Psychological Association Video Series, “Systems of Psychotherapy”, available in August 2006 from www.apa.org/videos.
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FOR ONLINE COURSES SEE:
Existential Psychotherapy
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