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CV: Stephen Khamsi
Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
College instruction at Santa Rosa Junior College (Human Sexuality; Aging, Dying and Death).
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
Ph.D., Psychology, 1985, Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center.
M.A., Psychology, 1976, Sonoma State University.
B.A., Sociology and Psychology (double major), "With Highest Honors," 1975, Sonoma State University.
Current Projects and Professional Activities
Dr. Khamsi is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, and has been in private practice in San Francisco and the North Bay for 30 years. In addition, he has been an academic advisor at Saybrook Graduate School since 2002.
Current Publications
Khamsi, S. (2007, Spring). Mind the gap: A review of Arthur Janov’s Primal healing. IPA Newsletter, 11.Khamsi, S. (2005, Summer). Swords and knives: A review of Alice Miller’s The body never lies. IPA Newsletter, 8-9.Khamsi, S. (2002, Summer). The APA's Emotion: The people vs. power, profits, prestige and prescriptions. IPA Newsletter, 8-9.
Significant Publications
Khamsi, S. (1981). The primal paradigm. Humanistic Psychology Institute Review, 3(2), 51-60.Khamsi, S. (1984). Primal perspectives in psychotherapy. Aesthema, 4, 7-24Khamsi, S. (1985). Psychoanalysis, birth and before. PPPANA Journal, 1(1), 6-10.
Important Conference Presentations
Research Interests
The phenomenology of feeling, emotional expression in psychotherapy, the influence and encroachment of pharmaceutical corporations, and issues pertaining to human sexuality and death and dying.
Research Expertise
My dissertation research involved the phenomenology of emotion in depth psychotherapy.
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
Academic advising and information about licensure, based on 20 years of teaching and 30 years of clinical practice.
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 | |
| 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 |


