Biography
I majored in Psychology and Honors Humanities for my A.B. With Distinction (Phi Beta Kappa) degree in 1967 at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. I spent the summer of 1967 working in Austria and traveling throughout Europe.
I had the privilege of meeting Viktor E. Frankl, M.D. (1905-1997) in his office in Vienna, Austria. He has survived several Nazi concentration camps and founded "Logotherapy." I visited Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
I spent my first two years of undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. where I got
an excellent exposure to both psychology and the humanities.
I earned my A.M. in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Social Relations, Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard
University in Cambridge, MA. in 1968. I spent the summer of 1968 in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia where I was
a Field Assessment Assistant evaluating Peace Corps Trainees. I then visited Okinawa & Japan.
I was awarded the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship by the Deans of Harvard which I used in 1970-1971 to study under Medard Boss, M.D. (1903-1990) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He had been psychoanalyzed by Sigmund Freud, a close colleague of Carl G. Jung, & a close personal friend of the German philosopher, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Through him, I had an interview with Prof. Heidegger in his home in Freiburg im Breisgau.
I earned my M.Div. (Master of Divinity) degree in 1972 from the Harvard Divinity School where I had an emphasis
on Psychology & Religion.
In 1975, I completed my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Department of Psychology & Social Relations, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University. The title of my dissertation is "Psychological approaches to loving: A.H. Maslow's
levels of maturation in dyadic attachment orientation" (Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest, Publication #7717269, 161 pages. Robert Winthrop White, Ph.D. (1904-2001) was one of many inspirational mentors (Henry A. Murray also).
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