CV: Edward Mendelowitz, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses

TRANSIENCE & POSSIBILITY: The Legacy of Rollo May. A Series of Lectures to be Given at Sogang University, Seoul/Korea in October 2010.

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

Humanity's Dark Side: Explorations in Psychotherapy and Beyond. Co-Editor, APA Books.

Lecturer, Tufts School of Medicine/Department of Pschiatry.

Faculty, Existenital Psychotherapy Center of Southern University.

Current Publications

William James and the spirit of complexity (w/C. Y. Kim). Journal of humanistic psychology. In press.

Significant Publications

Meditations on Oedipus: Becker’s Kafka, Nietzsche’s metamorphoses (2006). Journal of humanistic psychologyMeditations on dissociation: Kristiana and the enigmatic self (2007). In K. Schneider (Ed.), Existential-integrativeExistential psychotherapy (w/K. Schneider) (2007). In R.J. Corsini & D. Wedding, (Eds.). Current PsychotherapiesCase study of an obsessive-compulsive personality (2007). In R.J. Corsini & D. Wedding, (Eds.). Case Studies inEthics and Lao-tzu: Intimations of character (2008). Colorado Springs: University of the Rockies Press.Building the great wall of Chins: Postmodern reverie and the breakdown of meanings (2009). In Hoffman et al.,Reminiscences (2009). Journal of humanistic psychology (pp. 435-440). 49 (4).Humanitas: Reflections on Psyche and the Arts: Waltz with Bashir (With God on our Side). Society for HumanisticHumanitas: Reflections on Psyche and the Arts: Solaris (Interstellar Space). Society for Humanistic PsychologyHumanitas: 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

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Research Expertise


Expertise Working with Saybrook Students

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Research Expertise

Research Expertise Rating Guide:

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

Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)

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

Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods

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

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

Ethnoautobiographical research
Hermeneutics
Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
Heuristic Research

Types of Analysis

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