Faculty Profile: Ed Mendelowitz

Ed Mendelowitz

School: Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Bio:
Ed Mendelowitz completed his doctoral studies at the California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley campus, where he worked closely with the existential-humanistic psychologist and author Rollo May. He is on the Board of Editors for the Humanistic Psychologist and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and a contributor to some of the major compendiums of existential/humanistic/depth psychotherapy. He has presented numerous papers on psychology, psychotherapy and their respective interrelations with the humanities in the USA, Europe and East Asia. His writing resides on the gnostic frontiers of psychology in its blending of art, literature, music, cinema, religion, philosophy and clinical narrative with the more recognizable fare of theoretical scholarship. Mendelowitz's collage-like ETHICS AND LAO-TZU has been called "an extraordinary moral narrative" by the Pulitzer Prize-winning humanist Robert Coles and "a remarkable book, a compendium of wisdom from an astonishing number of sources" by the late psychoanalyst and poet Allen Wheelis. Dr. Mendelowitz is a part-time faculty member for Saybrook University, a lecturer for Tufts School of Medicine and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of the Rockies. Mendelowitz writes a quarterly online column, HUMANITAS, for the Society of Humanistic Psychology and lives and works on the Squantum tip of Boston's South Shore."""

Curriculum Vitae

Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses

Existential-Humanistic Psychology and the Humanities: The Gnostic Frontiers. Saybrook RC, 1/13.

Transience & possibility: The legacy of Rollo May. The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge MA, 05/17/12.

Vietnam Now and Then. Address given at the grand opening of ETHOS Language Education Center. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2/12.

Gnostic Frontiers of Psychology: An integration of Elements. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled The New Existential-Humanistic Psychology at the annual APA Convention. Division 32. Washington, DC, 8/11.

Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution

M.A., Ph.D. California School of Professional Psychology, 1982.

M.S., Ed.S State University of New York at Albany, 1976.

B.A. Tufts University, 1974.

Current Projects and Professional Activities

"HUMANITAS: Reflections on psyche, craft and the doings and sufferings of the enduring self." Quarterly online column written for the Society for Humanistic Psychology.

"HUMANITY'S DARK SIDE: Explorations in Psychotherapy and Beyond." Co-Editor, APA Books.

Lecturer, Tufts School of Medicine/Department of Psychiatry.

Program Chair, Society of Humanistic Psychology, 2012.

Current Publications

Humanitas: Reflections on Psych and the Arts. Sun Ship: The Late Recordings of John Coltrane. Society for Humanistic Psychology. Newsletter, Winter 2011.

Humanitas: Reflections on Psych and the Arts. Search for the New Land. Society for Humanistic Psychology. Newsletter, Spring 2012.

Vision beyond the cave: The psychiatry of Nassir Ghaemi. Existence, Vol. 6/1. Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Spring 2012

Humanitas: Reflections on Psych and the Arts. Orlando and Orpheus: Meditations on Diversity. Society for Humanistic Psychology. Newsletter, Fall 2012.

Significant Publications

Meditations on Oedipus: Becker’s Kafka, Nietzsche’s Metamorphoses (2006). Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 46:4.

Reminiscences (2009). Journal of Humanistic Psychology (pp. 435-440). 49 (4).

Existential Psychotherapy (w/K. Schneider) (2007). In R.J. Corsini & D. Wedding, (Eds.). Current Psychotherapies (8th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Case study of an obsessive-compulsive personality (2007). In R.J. Corsini & D. Wedding, (Eds.). Case Studies in Psychotherapy (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Ethics and Lao-tzu: Intimations of Character (2008). Colorado Springs: University of the Rockies Press.

Building the great wall of China: Postmodern Reverie and the Breakdown of Meanings (2009). In Hoffman et al., Existential Psychology East/West. Colorado Springs: University of Colorado Press.

Decalogue, or How to Live a Life: Engendering Self-Examination. (2012). In A. Bohart, B. Held, E. Mendelowitz, K. Schneider (Eds.), Humanity’s Dark Side: Explorations for Psychotherapy and Beyond. Washington DC: APA Press., 2012.

HUMANITAS: Reflections on Psyche and the Arts: Waltz with Bashir (With God on our Side). Society for Humanistic Psychology, Fall 2009.

HUMANITAS: Reflections on Psyche and the Arts: Solaris (Interstellar Space). Society for Humanistic Psychology, Winter 2010.

HUMANITAS: Psychology, Reflections on Psyche and the Arts: Science, psychology & the arts. Society for Humanistic Psychology. Newsletter, Summer 2010.

Important Conference Presentations

On What is Hidden: The Limits of Knowledge. Existential Therapy for a World Gone Mad. EHI 2nd Annual Conference. San Francisco CA, 11/08.

Evanescence: The Abstract Art and Phenomenal World of John Urbain. From Crisis to Creativity: Necessary Losses,
Unexpected Gains. EHI 3rd Annual Conference. San Francisco CA, 11/09.

Cinema & Existential States of Consciousness. Saybrook Graduate School. San Francisco, CA. 1/16/10-
1/19/10.

The Use of Adversity: Rollo May & Existential Psychotherapy. Grand Rounds lecture in Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Center. Boston MA 3/15/10.

Existence & Cinema: Woody Allen’s Manhattan. Existential Psychology East/West International Conference. Nanjing, China, 4/02/10-4/05/10.

Transience & Possibility: The Legacy of Rollo May (Keynote address). Existential Psychology East/West International Conference. Nanjing, China, 4/02/10-4/05/10.

Literature and Existence: A Dialogue. Existential Psychology East/West International Conference. Nanjing, China, 4/02/10-4/05/10.

Research Interests

My research interests reside, broadly speaking, in existential-humanistic psychology and psychotherapy and their respective interrelations with the humanities. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (who considered himself, perspicaciously, also a native psychologist) pointed even in the nineteenth century to psychology as "queen of the sciences," the discipline into which all related disciplines might one day flow. It is research typified by this sort of rarified sensibility and humanitarian largesse, qualitative or meaningfully quantitative, that especially interests me.

Research Expertise

Individuals who are interested in my own work around clinical narrative may wish to consult the following articles of mine:

Meditations on Oedipus: Becker’s Kafka, Nietzsche’s metamorphoses (2006). Journal of humanistic psychology (pp. 385-431), 46 (4).
Meditations on dissociation: Kristiana and the enigmatic self (2007). In K. Schneider (Ed.), Existential-integrative psychotherapy: Guideposts to the core of practice. NY: Routledge.
Case study of an obsessive-compulsive personality (2007). In R.J. Corsini & D. Wedding, (Eds.). Case Studies in Psychotherapy (4^th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Existential psychotherapy (w/K. Schneider) (2007). In R.J. Corsini & D. Wedding (Eds.), Current Psychotherapies (8^th ed). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Ethics and Lao-tzu: Intimations of character (2008). Colorado Springs: University of the Rockies Press.

Expertise Working with Saybrook Students

Individuals interested in an example of my work with Saybrook students should consult the following article:

Peng, Jason H. (2007). Appreciation of Rolllo May: A search for existential sensibilities. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, XX(X) 1-7.

Research Expertise

Research Expertise Rating Guide:

studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
used in research myself
published or presented at conferences my research using this method

Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)

Laboratory Research	N/A
Field Experiments	N/A
Randomized Controlled Clinical	N/A
Quasi-experimental methods	N/A
Correlational Methods	N/A

Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods

Action Research	N/A
Survey Research	1, 4.
Interview Research	1, 4.
Observational Research	N/A
Epidemiological Research	N/A
Ethnography	N/A
Focus Groups	N/A
Self-Observational Methods	4, 5
Narrative Methods	1, 4, 5.
Feminist Methods	N/A
Content Analysis	N/A
Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy)	N/A
Events paradigm (psychotherapy)
Archival Research	N/A
Case History Methods	N/A
Appreciative Inquiry	N/A
Multiple Case Depth Research	N/A
Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design	N/A
Longitudinal research	N/A
Cross-sectional research	N/A

Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)

Ethnoautobiographical research	N/A
Hermeneutics	N/A
Grounded Theory	N/A
Phenomenology	N/A
Heuristic Research	N/A

Types of Analysis

Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.)	N/A
Confidence intervals	N/A
Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA)	N/A
Analysis of Covariance	N/A
Regression (including multiple regression)	N/A
Discriminant Function Analysis	N/A
Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis	N/A
Causal Modeling	N/A
Cluster Analysis	N/A
Survival Analysis	N/A
Nonparametrics	N/A
Bayesian Analysis	N/A
Meta-analysis and effect sizes	N/A
Factor Analysis	N/A
Time series analysis	N/A
Multidimensional scaling	N/A

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