Eric Lehrman
School: Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Bio:
I received my Ph.D. in Transpersonal Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (1992). I hold Master's degrees in transpersonal and counseling psychology (ITP, 1977, 1979), social psychology and anthropology (Temple University (1970), and sociology (CUNY,1967 (abd). I am a Psychologist and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Francisco. I work with a varied population of adult and adolescent clients using integrative approaches to life issues. My interests include depth psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (Post-Freudian and Jungian, transpersonal, and existential-humanistic), Buddhist psychology and therapy, somatic approaches to therapy and healing, ecopsychology, social transformation, and Eastern psychology and meditative psychospiritual practices. I am a former Buddhist monk and priest-trainee in the Zen and Theravadin traditions, as well as studying extensively in Buddist Abidharma with Tibetan teachers. I hold black belt certifications in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, and the Chinese martial art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. I am also on the faculty of John F.Kennedy University, teaching psychology.
My avocations are Dharma practices, writing, making music and art, gardening. juggling, reading, and walking.
My research career began in my undergraduate training. I worked as a research assistant on social psychology, sociology, and anthropology research projects. I was a research assistant on national studies for organizations such as the American Heart and the American Lung Associations. I participated in demographic research projects on American Census data. At Queens College, CUNY I was lead assistant on a seven year developmental study of several thousand students, learning to use computers to analyze data for the first time. I was also a teaching fellow. At Temple University I was lead assistant on a research project moving custodial mental patients to community housing during the Great Society initiatives of the 1960's. My thesis research focused on behavior in war and mob behavior. Much of my later research has been in developmental psychology and clinical psychology. My doctoral research was an innovative theoretical phenomenological study of mid-life developmental dynamics. I carried out research into psychological typology using the Singer-Loomis psychological type profile. I studied self-actualizing developmental dynamics using the Northridge Developmental Scale and the Personal Orientation Inventory. At the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology I was involved in collecting and analyzing data for the Spiritual Emergence Network, as well as editing the networks' newsletter. I have been an instructor at CUNY, Temple University, Hartwick College, ITP, CIIS, Antioch University, JFK University, U.C. Berkeley, and CSU Hayward.
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Curriculum Vitae
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