Psychology and Humanistic Studies Faculty

Dr. Adams is the author of Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness (2000) and Life Changes (1990) and the editor of Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership (2nd editions 1999). He is currently involved with a variety of large scale, complex organizational change implementations and a number of new writing projects in the areas of change, individual effectiveness at work, and the creative aspects of human consciousness.
His teaching at Saybrook is within the Organizational Systems concentration. He is the concentration Head of OS. Within the OS area, he teaches many of the consultative and transformation oriented courses. He has been deeply committed to Saybrook's vision and values for many years, and believes that the structure and process of education at Saybrook are excellent for supporting mid-career professionals.
The central theme of his professional life has been the self-fulfilling and self-reinforcing nature of human consciousness, as expressed in the results we get as individuals, as organizational systems, and as a species. His passion is in the area of nurturing the emergence of a critical mass of consciousness that will co-create a high quality of life on earth for all beings of the next generation. In addition to the foregoing, his research interests are in the area of deep pattern change at the individual, organizational and societal levels.

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Dr. Andersen received his Ph.D.in Political Science and Social Psychology from the University of Southern California. Dr. Andersen's work is interdisciplinary, exploring the big picture of what the human species is and where it is going. He is the author of several books where he explores the fields of postmodern thought and the accessibility of biotechnology to the general public.

Carol Barrett holds doctorates in both clinical psychology and in creative writing, with graduate minors in social psychology, the psychology of aging and religious studies. She also has a master's degree in physical education, majoring in dance, and has taught women's studies and gerontology as well as community psychology and poetry. She is an avid learner, who has lived in nine states and England. She has two books of poetry in print, and journal contributions in the fields of psychology, gerontology, education, art therapy, women's studies, and literature. She has received grants from three federal agencies -- NSF, NIMH and NEA. Her most recent employment has been as Associate Dean of the pre-cohort Ph.D. program at Union Institute & University. She lives in Bend OR.

George Callan, Ph.D., LMFT-George is a depth psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist whose clinical and academic interests include systems counseling, archetypal psychotherapy, dream work, and initiatory processes as they relate to the individual, communal and global psyche. She practices psychotherapy and mentorship in Seattle where she works with individuals, couples and families and supervises therapists and interns in the fields of clinical and depth psychology."

Susan Campbell is an author of nine books and founder of The Getting Real Work and Getting Real Seminars. Dr. Campbell has been a relationship coach for couples, families, singles, and business leaders since 1967. After earning her Ph.D. in Clinical/Counseling Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1967, she went on to become a member of that school's Graduate Faculty until 1977, when she left there to join the Saybrook faculty. During this time she has also pursued a career as a professional speaker and a consultant and trainer for CEOs, top and mid-level managers, and rank and file personnel. She is President of Getting Real Resources, a coaching and training company, which aims at changing the culture to make honesty the new cultural norm and helping to make the world safe for differences.

Her most recent work centers on how to use honest, present-centered communication as vehicle for personal healing and expanded self-awareness. This body of work, called The Getting Real Work, is described in her best-selling, Getting Real and her more recent books, Truth in Dating, and Saying Whats Real. The Getting Real Work is a body of personal and spiritual development practices aimed at helping people get over their addiction to comfort and control so they can be authentically present to the actual possibilities in each moment. The Getting Real philosophy states that instead of being real, i.e. present to the reality of ones present situation, most people have been conditioned to protect themselves from emotionally painful or uncomfortable information. They then develop various control patterns such as sugar-coating, lying to avoid conflict, and suppressing their true feelings so as not to appear foolish or be judged. Such self-suppression is seen as counter-productive to the evolution of human consciousness and human civilization. The work offers ?10 truth skills? that constitute a recovery program to help people un-learn dysfunctional communication habits and regain the courage to feel and express what they actually see, know, feel and want even if their feelings are uncomfortable, unpopular, or inconvenient. Getting Real reminds people that when we were babies or children, we learned to suppress our self-expression so as not to upset the adults too much, and this may have been important for our survival. But we are adults now, and we will not die if someone rejects us or dislikes us. When we try too hard to stay within our comfort zone or control how others view us, we lose much of our ability to deal with life as it is.
Practitioners of Getting Real learn to notice all the various and subtle ways that controlling manifests itself and how people often go on automatic when old wounds get triggered. They learn to replace their automatic control patterns with authentic, in-the-moment self-expression. The 10 truth skills help people regain and refine their human sensitivities, their capacity to feel, sense, see, and hear what is actually going on inside and around them in each moment without the typical distortions that people use to stay comfortable or avoid emotional upset. This enables them to make decisions and take action based on actual data rather then on their assumptions, wishes, or fears. Through practicing the truth skills with willing practice partners, people develop the ability to speak about difficult or sensitive topics with greater ease. They outgrow their addiction to control, and learn to appreciate and deal with situations or people that they once tried to avoid. Campbell calls her program a 12-step program for the rest of us, and asserts that Western Civilization conditions people to place more value on being right, safe, and comfortable (controlling) than on being real, unique, and open to surprise (relating). In addition to her recent books, Campbell has developed three interactive cards games that teach the 10 truth skills--one for the general public, one for couples and dating singles, and one for work teams. She also trains Getting Real Coaches, who learn to host Honesty Salons, which are practice groups for learning to be more skillfully and compassionately honest.

An example of one of the 10 truth skills is Holding Differences, which is the ability to listen openly to a viewpoint or perception that differs from ones own without giving up ones own view and without assuming that somebodys view is wrong or needs to change. To help people learn to Hold Differences, Getting Real suggests starting with the statement: I hear that you feel or think______(repeat your understanding of the others position), while I have a different feeling about that. May I tell you how I see it? Campbell believes that when people learn to Hold Differences rather than trying to talk someone out of his feelings or views, they develop the capacity to see situations from a more inclusive perspective; they learn to see relationships between things once thought of as separate; they have more satisfying relationships; and their relationship to life becomes more realistic, or real.

The roots of this work are: Buddhist Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Sensory Awareness, Psychoanalysis, and Jungian Psychology

In February 2008, she hosted a conference of thought leaders in the Honesty Movement called The Truth Summit. One outcome of the Summit was the creation of The Honesty Charter, similar to The Earth Charter, which gives structure and identity to the emerging cultural movement calling for greater transparency in business, government, and human relationships. To view The Honesty Charter visit honestycharter.blogspot.com/. Dr. Campbells work has been featured in many popular magazines including New Woman, Psychology Today, Self, Harvard Business Review, Seventeen, Mens Health, New Age, Fast Company, and Yoga Journal. She has been a guest on many national TV talk shows including Dr Dean Edell, CNNs News Night, and Good Morning America.

Accomplished in the business world, she has directed a think tank, run non-profit organizations, consulted to Fortune 500 companies, and guest lectured at the Harvard, Stanford, and UCLA business schools. She speaks on such topics as: Taking Charge of Change, Team Building, Conflict and Negotiation, Dealing with Difficult People, Getting Real Confidence, Honest Feedback in the Workplace, Preventing Workplace Violence, Getting Real: The Power of Present-Centered Communication, Communication Skills for Preventing and Resolving Conflict, Truth in Dating: Finding Love By Getting Real.

An avid adventurer and proponent of "living your life out loud," she has lived and worked in other cultures and spent two years sailing her 47-foot sailboat halfway around the world.

She lives in Northern California where she hosts Honesty Salons several evenings per month. Her website is www.susancampbell.com

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Dr. Cannady is a psychologist, ordained minister, violinist, pianist, and opera singer. His research interests include multicultural diversity issues, despairity in health care, family intervention therapy, anger management, domestic violence, sandtray, and rage in black adolescents.
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Scott Churchill received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Dusquesne University. Dr. Churchill is a professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, a licensed psychologist, and specialist in humanistic psychology and qualitative research methods, particularly phenomenology. Other interests include primatology, sexuality and film studies.

Dr. Criswell is professor of psychology and former chair of the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University. She is the founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute, which is now called Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.

I have a Bachelors degree in Behavioral Psychology from Western Michigan University. My Masters Degree and Doctoral Degree were earned from Saybrook University, specializing in Integrative Health Psychology. I am a full-time, licensed clinician living in Marquette, Michigan. There I work at Great Lakes Recovery Centers inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities with clients ranging from children to adults. I specialize in co-occurring disorders, addressing the psychological aspects of addiction, traditional mental health, and elite athletes, in individual as well as group settings. My work includes conducting psychological assessments of incarcerated inmates pending sentencing to Federal prison, transitional care for male and female Federal prisoners who have completed their sentences, in addition to extensive trauma care. I also work as a Mind-Body Specialist for the Green Bay Packers, in addition to doing work at the United States Olympic Education Center (USOEC) on the campus of Northern Michigan University. The USOEC is the only Olympic training center that enables their athletes to earn a college degree while training for their sport. I work with athletes on the Weightlifting Team, the Short Track Speedskating Team, the Women's Freestyle Wrestling Team, and the Men's Greco Roman Wrestling Team. With the Packers and at the USOEC I conduct Mind-Body Performance Training sessions with the athletes. This is a program that I developed that incorporates multiple styles of yoga, stretching, deep breathing, meditation, and visualization. Multiple research studies, including a randomized, controlled clinical trial, have been conducted on this program demonstrating statistically significant decreases in anxiety and stress and increases in flexibility and focus. My history includes working in pediatric and oncology hospital settings, advocating for integrative care in health and medicine, in addition to Adventure Therapy utilizing ropes courses, physical initiatives, and group processing to facilitate psychological change in individuals. I am pleased to be a part of the Saybrook University community as an adjunct faculty member and look forward to working with students in the College of Mind-Body Medicine.""

You can learn more about me at www.clairefrederick.com.
I am a Board Certified psychiatrist who specializes in psychotherapy. I practice in Tahoe City. California. I am a Fellow of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. I am the recipient of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis President's Award; an ASCH Award of Merit as an outstanding clinician, teacher, and author, and the Crasilneck Award for excellence in writing. I am also also the recipient of the Cornelia Wilbur Award for original contributions to the field of dissociation. In 2005 the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis gave her Annual Shenk Award to the physician who has made significant contributions to the development of medical hypnosis and in 2007 the Roy M. Dorcus Award for the Best Clinical Paper published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. I have been named as one of America's Top Psychiatrists for 2007, 2008, and 2009.
I have been on the faculties of several medical schools, including the Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine, and currently am Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook University in San Francisco where I consult and teach in the Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies and with the Graduate College of Mind-Body Medicine.
I am a Past Editor of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. and I am an Editorial Consultant for the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. I am the co-author of Healing the Divided Self: Clinical and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy for Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Conditions and Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-Strengthening as well as books, chapters and peer reviewed articles. My fields of interest include hypnosis, ego-strengthening, developmental repair, trauma and dissociation, mind-body problems, Ego State Therapy, social construction therapies, working with difficult cases, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and issues with loss and grief, and death and dying. I am an Honorary Member of the British Society for Medical and Dental Hypnosis/Scotland and the Canadian Federation of Hypnosis, Alberta Division. I teach nationally and internationally.

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Harris Friedman received his Ph.D. in Personality-Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University. Harris Friedman has a background as a clinical psychologist, organizational consultant, and program developer. As a researcher, he is most interested in the fundamental epistemological questions related to how we know what we think we know. This translates into a particular focus on developing techniques of assessment and measurement as well as a finding ways to utilize these techniques in areas that have previously resisted empirical efforts."""""

Maurice received his Ph.D. in the History of Culture from the University of Chicago. Dr. Friedman is an expert on the thought of Martin Buber, the 20th century Jewish existentialist philosopher, and of its implications for psychotherapy. His expertise also extends to philosophy, religious studies, and comparative literature.

Sharada Gwen Gibbs-Wade brings an interdisciplinary background and approach to her 35 years experience as an Applied Behavioral Scientist. Dr. Gibbs-Wade's career as a consultant in organizational systems, professor, licensed psychologist, and researcher has taken her to work, research, and study in Africa, Canada, Caribbean, England, India, Mexico, Switzerland, and Trinidad.Transformative Leadership, Action Research and Complex System Change, Cross Cultural Research Methodology and Curriculum Development, Multi-Media and Arts from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Global Sustainability in Education, Spiritual Traditions, Business, and Social Justice are her major areas of focus. Collectively, they speak to her core passion in life: sustained awareness and action to transform individuals and organizations human consciousness valuing their highest nature. She believes we can take actions to choose equality and search for the truth, in our daily lives and in our work here on earth. Current and past projects contributing to this life theme include: Online Course for Global Women in Leadership and Transformation, Documentary on Organizational Systems and Slave Labor in Third World Countries [in progress], Short film on African Art, Transformative Learning, Cross Cultural Comparative Literature- research and book on Global Leadership and Spirit in Toni Morrison, and Wingari Maathai. She has presented at conferences and panels on topics of Leadership and Learning Organizations, Trinidad; Cross Cultural Research, Africa; Black Women in Academy, MIT; Spirituality and Organization Transformation/East-West Traditions, GIC; Public TV on Suicide and Stress in Blacks; and, Border Films, cultural and systems conflicts, UCB. Dr. Gibbs-Wade is Past Chairperson of the Board of Directors for NTL, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists"

Currently I am an assistant principal at a school for students with Severe Behavior Disorders within Edmonton Public Schools in Canada. I have been fortunate to be a part of the emergence of Indigenous Research, Indigenous Ethics and Indigenous Peace processes as each unfolds within the world of academic research. Through living these research paradigms, I was also able to do my dissertation work at Saybrook. Currently, I am a licensed psychologist and have recently completed the first draft of a book, "Growing Peace in Schools". As an native elder, I continue to work with Indigenous graduate students both in Canada and the United States.

Lenneal Henderson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his post-doctorate at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Henderson has joined the Organizational Systems concentration and the Social Transformation Program as a Distinguished Consulting Faculty member. He currently serves as distinguished professor of public and international affairs, senior fellow of the William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy;a Senior Fellow in the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics and a former Henry C. Welcome Fellow in the College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore. He was also Daniel T. Blue Endowed Professor in Political Science at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina; Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; former Director of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Francisco and taught statistics in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His areas of focus and inquiry include:
Public Policy and Policy Analysis
Ethics and Normative Analysis
Social Change and Transformation
Spirituality and Critical Self-Reflection
Global Power Issues and Constructive Change
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Edward Hoffman is an active scholar in humanistic/ transpersonal psychology today, and is an adjunct associate psychology professor at Yeshiva University in New York City. He is the author of more than a dozen books in psychology and related fields, including award-winning biographies of Alfred Adler and Abraham Maslow, and an anthology of Maslow's unpublished papers entitled FUTURE VISIONS (Sage). Dr. Hoffman has written/edited several works relating classic Jewish thought to contemporary interests in psychology including personality growth, mindfulness, creativity, and altruism. These include most recently THE WISDOM OF MAIMONIDES and THE KABBALAH READER (both by Shambhala/Trumpeter).
Dr. Hoffman has been a New York State licensed psychologist in private practice for over 25 years, and serves as an editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. He lectures widely throughout the United States and abroad, and in 2009, served as a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. His recent research has focused on cross-cultural study of peak-experiences and cross-cultural study of altruistic encounters.
He lives in the New York City area with his wife and their two children.

Robert Horn is an internatially recognized leader in the fields of information mapping, global communication, and information design. His currentt projects include constructing new maps for policy projects, developing visual language, and conducting research on the visual presentation of debates.

Doil Montgomery, PhD, is a licensed Psychologist and Certified Biofeedback Practitioner, retired from the Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he served as Professor of Psychology and Director of the Biofeedback Facility. As Director of the Biofeedback Facility he supervised numerous students treating clients for a host of disorders including Behavioral Health Issues. He also was chair of many doctoral research projects with most of those being presented or published. Dr. Montgomery also maintained a part time private practice during his academic career and was in full-time practice for 8 years. Dr. Montgomery has published extensive research on psychophysiology, biofeedback, and behavioral medicine. His most recent book was Evidence Based Practice in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback (2008). He has served on the Board of Directors of the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance and the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.

Natalie Roger received her Ph.D. Psychology in Expressive Arts Therapy from Summit University. Dr. Natalie Rogers is a distinguished psychotherapist and a pioneer in the field of expressive art therapy. She has authored two books, several chapters, and many articles. The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing, (1993) presents her theory and the applications of person-centered expressive arts therapy. Natalie's Emerging Woman: A Decade of Mid-life Transitions, (1980) is a personal/political description of her life between age 40 and 50. A chapter entitled The Creative Journey in Positive Regard: Carl Rogers and Other Notables He Influenced, (1995) describes how she expanded the work of her notable father, Dr. Carl Rogers, to include the arts as a mode of communication in psychotherapy. Natalie is also an artist, a mother and grandmother.

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Dr. Tang is an internationally known expert, mentor, coach, trainer and OD consultant in a global context. He is the creator of Synergic Inquiry methodology and Synergic Coaching which has been applied to different settings in different nations and cultures.

He has mentored or coached many top executives from over many different countries (e.g., USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Singapore, England, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). And he has provided mentoring, coaching or training services to over 800 managers and leaders who are local Chinese.

He is also an experienced OD consultants. Within 6 months, he played a strategic and instrumental role in helping Becker Guangzhou operation to become a world-class organization in terms of revenue per capita, profit per capita, and rate of growth. Due to his strategic guidance Becker Group set up a new business unit which has become the future of the group. As part of the outcomes, many leaders (both international and Chinese) are promoted to take bigger responsibilities for the business. Currently he is still coaching the core leaders to expand their capacities and skills, in the meantime being their strategic guide.

He has conducted many workshops and trainings in the areas of corporate culture and cross-cultural communication and management. He has lived in the United States for many years and received his master and Ph.D. from US universities.

The facilitator has profound management experience: He had been project manager at Texaco, did run his own business in the United States, and was the CEO of PVG Corporation, a US-based company.

Dr. Tang is a modern type of Chinese coach/trainer who applies modern, i.e. Western teaching and moderation techniques, and speaks English fluently.

Dr Tang has provided hundreds of domestic and multinational corporations with his consultancy service and has conducted more than 1000 seminars.

Key customers of Dr Tang include multinational corporations as Mercedes Benz, AIA, Apple, AT&T, BP, DaimlerChrysler, GM, IBM, HP, Oracle, Pacific Bell, Procter & Gamble, Shell, Sun Micro Systems, Texaco, Beckers Industrial Coatings, Continental, and many others.


In 2006, he was the first Chinese author to be published by the famous SAGE publishing house, publishing a handbook on and in 2010 his new book�C �gDeveloping Global Leaders�h has been published in China by the most reputable publisher, CITIC.

Ethel Tobach received her Ph.D. Physiological and Comparative Psychology from New York University. Dr. Tobach's research looks at the relationship between evolutionary and developmental processes in behavior; the examination of activity as a significant process in behavior; the relation between social, societal, and individual factors in that relationship; and an examination of contemporary problems in society as they relate to aspects of identity.

Darlene Viggiano, Ph.D. (MFT), teaches Basic and Intermediate Hypnosis for the College of Mind-Body medicine, having earned her doctorate in 2010 from Saybrook University. Dr. Viggiano is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the Intensive Outpatient Program at Kaiser Permanente South Valley Centre in the Adult Psychiatry Department. She serves on Kaiser’s Regional Best Practices committee for Dual Diagnosis, facilitates groups for Adults Molested as Children and for Dual Diagnosis populations, as well as offering psycho-education on Anger Management. She also facilitates Mindfulness Movement skills sessions, in addition to providing therapy to a regular patient caseload. She has served on the Domestic Violence Committee and on the Quality Assurance Committee at Kaiser South Sacramento. She was honored to earn the Outstanding Service Award for the second quarter of 2009.

Dr. Viggiano earned her Ph.D. in psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco, where her dissertation topic was the role of dreams and dream-like experiences in spiritual emergence processes.

Her book, Carrying On: A workbook for women who’ve lost a pregnancy, was published in 2010 by Lambert Academic Publishing. Her book, Dreams and Dream-like Experiences: Their Role in Spiritual Emergence Processes, was published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Her 2012 biographical article on Ernest R. Hilgard appeared online in the Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories, published by Springer Science + Business Media, and her 2011 article on Jungian hypnotic dream-work was published in Contemporary Hypnosis and Integrative Therapy. Her interactive, online class, Applications of Clinical Hypnosis in Mind-Body Medicine, was accepted for CE credit at JFK University’s Somatic Psychotherapy workshop series. Additionally, she has published several peer-reviewed journal articles as well as various book-reviews on psychology books. She has taught psychology at the University of Phoenix and developed an online hypnosis course for John F. Kennedy University. She earned certification in clinical hypnosis from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and is a member of APA Division 30, The Society of Psychological Hypnosis. She presented on hypnotic dreaming at the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis during their 60th annual workshops and scientific program. She earned the 2012 Early Career Achievement Award from APA Division 30.

Jay Wagener received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Clark University. He graduated from Stanford University with majors in Philosophy and Psychology. He did his internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute where he ran groups for bi-poloar patients and worked in the UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic with Kay Jamison. He also worked on the Liaison Staff in the UCLA Medical Hospital where he ran nurses groups, worked with cancer patients and their families and was the head psychologist on the Bone Marrow Transplant Service. Dr. Wagener's career work is focused on how individuals make and maintain significant changes in their life. He is the founder of ichangenetwork.com, an internet site devoted to helping individuals deal with stress, cope with going through divorce, ADD, and addictions of all kinds. He pioneered the development of Deep Focus Imaging (DFI) which combines self-hypnosis, imagery, and meditation to help individuals make lasting deep changes in their lives. Feel free to visit this site. Dr. Wagener has been in private practice in Pasadena for over 25 years and works primarily with couples, adolescents, and students and athletes interested in improving performance.

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Dr. Whitney is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker and thought leader. Her work focuses on the use of Appreciative Inquiry for organization culture transformation; merger, alliance building and partnerships; labor management relations; superior customer service; and global organization development.