Thomas Greening
School: Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Bio:
Thomas Greening received his Ph.D.in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1958. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in California and has been practicing client-centered, psychodynamic existential-humanistic psychotherapy for 47 years. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and a Fellow of five APA Divisions. He was Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology from 1970-2005 and now is International Editor. He is a clinical professor of psychology at UCLA where he has supervised graduate students for 30 years.
Dr. Greening is active in citizen diplomacy. His first overseas trip was with the Quaker International Volunteer Service in 1952, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship to Vienna. During the Cold War he made five trips to the Soviet Union and recently he traveled to China. He and Saybrook graduate Clay Foreman created Saybrook's course in Citizen Diplomacy, the first such course in the world.
His teaching at Saybrook is within the Humanistic and Transpersonal Clinical Inquiry Concentration. He especially likes to teach Saybrook's courses in Humanistic Psychology and Psychotherapy, Existential Psychotherapies, Rollo May and the Existential Tradition, Critical Issues in Psychopathology, and Ethics.
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Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
Ph. D. in psychology, University of Michigan 1958
B. A. in social science and literature 1952
Current Projects and Professional Activities
Professor of Psychology. International Editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Psychotherapist. Psychotherapy supervisor. Research on Psychology of Terrorists. Writer/poet. Peace activist.. Making documentary film on Luria and brain damage.
Important Conference Presentations
Psychology of Terrorism; Citizen Diplomacy; The Active Psychotherapy Client. Existential Psychotherapy. Psychological Uses of Autobiography. Psychoanalytic Theory.
Research Interests
Self-actualization, personal growth, transcendence of trauma, authenticity, psychotherapy, citizen diplomacy and peace activism
Research Expertise
Case studies. Heuristic research. Phenomenological research. Autobiographical studies. Interview studies. Archival research.
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
Helping students get in touch with what they really want to do at Saybrook, what dissertation research will mean the most to them, how to integrate their past personal and professional experiences with their academic study and professional development.
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 |
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| Field Experiments |
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| Randomized Controlled Clinical |
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| Quasi-experimental methods |
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| Correlational Methods |
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Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research |
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| Survey Research |
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| Interview Research |
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| Observational Research |
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| Epidemiological Research |
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| Ethnography |
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| Focus Groups |
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| Self-Observational Methods |
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| Narrative Methods |
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| Feminist Methods |
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| Content Analysis |
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| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) |
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| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) |
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| Archival Research |
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| Case History Methods |
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| Appreciative Inquiry |
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| Multiple Case Depth Research |
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| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design |
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| Longitudinal research |
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| Cross-sectional research |
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Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research |
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| Hermeneutics |
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| Grounded Theory |
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| Phenomenology |
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| Heuristic Research |
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Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) |
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| Confidence intervals |
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| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) |
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| Analysis of Covariance |
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| Regression (including multiple regression) |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis |
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| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis |
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| Causal Modeling |
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| Cluster Analysis |
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| Survival Analysis |
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| Nonparametrics |
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| Bayesian Analysis |
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| Meta-analysis and effect sizes |
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| Factor Analysis |
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| Time series analysis |
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| Multidimensional scaling |
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