Div. 32 convention programming

Symposium: Evidence in Support of Existential-Humanistic Psychology–Revitalizing the "Third Force"

Chair: Shawn Rubin, PsyD, Saybrook University

Participant/1st Author

• Louis Hoffman, PhD, Saybrook University
  Title: Existential-Humanistic Therapy As a Model for Evidence-Based Practice
• Kevin Keenan, PhD, Michigan School of Professional Psychology
  Title: Faith in Science: Perspectives on Evidence-Based Practice From Humanistic and Depth Psychology
• Ann Smith, PhD, Michigan School of Professional Psychology
  Title: Authenticity As an Essential Element of Any Evidence-Based Practice Model
• David St. John, PhD, Michigan School of Professional Psychology
  Title: Existential-Humanistic Psychology: Isn't It Already an Evidence-Based Approach?

1 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Convention Center
Room W311G

Symposium: Humanistic Responses to the Commodification of Aging and Illness in Light of DSM-5

Chair: Frederick J. Wertz, PhD, Fordham University

Participant/1st Author

• Mary B. Morrissey, PhD, MPH, Fordham University
  Title: DSM-5 Impact on Geriatric Care: A Palliative Social Ecology of Health for Older Adults
• Tina M. Maschi, PhD, LCSW, Fordham University
  Title: Dementia, Aging Prisoners, and the DSM-5
• Keith Morgen, PhD, Centenary College
  Title: Substance Use Disorders and Older Adults: Questions of Tolerance, Withdrawal, and Craving
• Bruce Jennings, MA, Center for Humans and Nature, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
  Title: Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia Care: Implications for Older Adults

Discussant: Frederick J. Wertz, PhD

Symposium: Hojooba' Bee la' Hooniil–Research Into the Social Psychophysiology of Compassion

Chair: Larry C. Stevens, PhD, MS, Northern Arizona University

Participant/1st Author

• Jazmin Johnson, BA, Howard University
  Title: Unemployment, Self-Compassion, and Life Satisfaction Among Minorities
• Dibely Acosta, BA, University of New Mexico
  Title: Self-Compassion and Preference for Solitude Among College Students
• Alanna Pugliese, BA, University of Miami
  Title: Cross-Cultural Study of Self-Compassion in an Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Cohort
• Taylor Fellbaum, BA, College of Saint Scholastica
  Title: Attachment, Social Support, Parenting Authority, Self-Compassion, and Resiliency Among Minorities
• Janeen Denny, BA, Northern Arizona University
  Title: Where Hides Compassion: EEG/LORETA Frequency and Localization Characteristics of the Quiet Ego
• Kristina Bell, BA, Fort Lewis College
  Title: Focusing on Meditation: An EEG Study of Meditation and Compassion
• Jasmine Benjamin, BA, Northern Arizona University
  Title: A Compassionate Mind: Neurological Carryover Effects of Long-Term Meditation

Discussant

• Heidi Wayment, PhD, Northern Arizona University
• Larry C. Stevens, PhD, MS

Paper Session: Sidney M. Jourard Student Award–Creativity and Psychotherapy

Chair: Scott D. Churchill, PhD, University of Dallas

Participant/1stAuthor

• Katherine J. Hayes, BA, Miami University
  Title: What Then Is Your Myth? Creative Nonfiction, Jung's Red Book, and Healing Outside Therapy
• Mindy B. Atkin, MA, Saybrook University
  Title: Creativity, Psychopathology, and Healing: A Resilient Response?

Discussant

• Edward Mendelowitz, PhD, Saybrook University

Implicatons of the Existental Psychology–Zhi Mian Dialogues in China

• Louis Hoffman (co­chair)
• Rich Bargdill (co­chair)
• Ilene Serlin
• Erik Craig
• Shawn Rubin

6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Hospitality Suite

Incoming Board Meeting (closed meeting)

8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Hospitality Suite

Social Hour (open to all)

Symposium: The Neurophenomenological Self and Its Interpreters

Chair: Susan Gordon, PhD, National University

Participant/1st Author

• Susan Gordon, PhD
  Title: The Neurophenomenological Self
• Brent D. Robbins, PhD, Point Park University
  Title: Self-Conscious Emotions and the Ontogenesis of the Neurophenomenological Self
• Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, MD, PhD, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, Calif.
  Title: Neurophenomenology As Heuristics in the Shaping of the Self
• Robert G. McInerney, PhD, Point Park University
  Title: Agency and the Neurophenomenological Self: Privacy, Sociality, Habit, and Distinction
• Eugene I. Taylor, PhD, Saybrook University
  Title: Buddhist Anatta (No-Self) Versus the Deflated Self of Cognitive Neuroscience

Diagnosing Oppression: A humanistic–multicultural critque of the DSM system (open to all)

David St. John, Edward Jackson, Kate Darling

Symposium: The DSM-5 Controversy–President's Symposium

Chair: Brent D. Robbins, PhD, Point Park University

Participant/1st Author

• David N. Elkins, PhD, Pepperdine University
  Title: A Brief History of the Recent DSM-5 Effort
• K. Dayle Jones, PhD, University of Central Florida
  Title: An Overview of DSM-5's Risky Proposals
• Sarah R. Kamens, MA, Fordham University
  Title: Historical Debates in Psychiatry: What's Different About the DSM-5 Controversies?
• Lisa Cosgrove, PhD, University of Massachusetts Boston
  Title: Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members' Financial Associations With Industry
• J. Douglas Bremner, MD, Emory University
  Title: DSM-5 and the Trauma Spectrum Psychiatric Disorders
• Brent D. Robbins, PhD,
  Title: The Pathologization of Childhood: DSM-5's Recipe for an Iatrogenic Epidemic

PTSD, Trauma and Existental Psychotherapy (open to all)

Louis Hoffman, Stan Krippner, Heathrlyn Cleare-Hofman, Cathy Calvert, Daniel Pitchford

Existential Integrative Approaches with Adolescents (open to all)

David Shumaker

The Psychology of the Improbable (open to all)

Ilene Serlin, Stanley Krippner, and Mark Stern

The Future of Posi2ve Psychology: Humanis2c-­existental-­transpersonal Perspectves (open to all)

Paul Wong, Rich Bargdill, Edward Bonner, Kirk Schneider, Kenneth Hart and Brent Robbins

The Neurophenomenological Self (open to all)

Susan Gordon, Brent Robbins, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, Robert McInerney and Eugene Taylor

Poster Session: Second Annual Humanistic Psychology Poster Festival–Confucius, Ricouer, and the Cyber Citizen

Participant/1st Author

• Susan F. Schneeberger, PsyD, University of Northern Colorado
  Title: Mysticism, Transformation, and Appreciation for Life: Expanding the Conscious World
• Xuan Gao, BA, Brown University
  Title: How Do Happy People See Their Lives Differently From Others?
• Cynthia J. Boughner, PsyD, MA, Michigan School of Professional Psychology
  Title: Collaborative Fostering, Supporting, and Integrating of Spiritual Growth in a Meditation Group
• Aimee E. Acebedo, MA, BS, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
  Title: Clinical Application of the Transformative Experience Self in the Mind--Body Practice of Yoga
• James A. Beshai, PhD, Lebanon VA Medical Center, Pa.
  Title: Life Review Between Freud and Ricoeur
• Rockey Robbins, PhD, University of Oklahoma
  Title: Multicultural Classroom Pedagogy
• Scott B. Greenspan, University of Massachusetts Boston
  Title: Emotion in Psychotherapy: An Exploration Within a Naturalistic Database
• Kurt K. Hubbard, PhD, MS, University of St. Augustine
  Title: Occupationally Relevant Classroom for the Geriatric: Facilitation of Continued Development
• Meili Pinto, PhD, Independent Practice, Warner Springs, Calif.
  Title: Tiger and Mom: Confucius and the Parent--Child Dyad
• Amy Y. Kim, MA, Pepperdine University
  Title: Self, Collectivism, Culture, and Well-Being: True Self or True Community?
• Jami C. Voss, MEd, University of Memphis
  Title: Everyone Does It: Hooking Up, Pluralistic Ignorance, and Compassionate Intentions
• Chih Ming Chang, MBA, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  Title: Development and Validation of the Cyber Citizen Character Scale
• Rita Rispoli Porter, MA, Pacifica Graduate Institute
  Title: Looking Homeward: Sense of Place, Forced Relocation, and Journey's End
• Karen K. Lambdin, University of Mississippi
  Title: Perceived Meaning, Depression, and Suicidality in a College Student Sample
• Mary W. Pollard, BA, University of Mississippi
  Title: Perceived Meaning in Life, Suicidality, and Alcohol Use
• Sadi J. Fox, BA, Auburn University
  Title: Direction for Research on the Practice of Mindfulness and Nonattachment in Clinical Supervision
• Meghan R. Fraley, PhD, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
  Title: Characteristics and Theory of Transpersonal Psychotherapists: A Mixed-Methods Study
• Mark Yang, PsyD, Zhi Mian International Institute of Existential-Humanistic Psychology, Monument, Colo.
  Title: Existential/Zhi Mian Approach to International Psychology
• Alexandra Mattern-Roggelin, MS, George Washington University
  Title: DSM-5 Task Force: Secondary Data Analysis of an Online Petition
• Sara K. Bridges, PhD, University of Memphis
  Title: Compassion and Character in Transgender Support: Getting It Right
• Jared J. Cozen, MA, James Madison University
  Title: Facilitating Awareness of Self and Other Through the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory

Music and Meaning: an open mix Salon & Listening Party especially for graduate students (open to all)

Shawn Rubin

5 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Convention Center
Room W304A

Symposium: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind–Brain Relationship

Chair: Stanley C. Krippner, PhD, Saybrook University

Participant/1st Author

• Saulo F. Araujo, PhD, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  Title: Materialism's Eternal Return: Recurrent Patterns of Materialistic Explanations of Mental Phenomena
• Robert Almeder, PhD, Georgia State University
  Title: Major Objections From Reductive Materialism Against the Existence of Cartesian Mind--Body Dualism
• Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  Title: Research on Mediumship and the Mind--Brain Relationship
• Erlendur Haraldsson, PhD, University of Iceland, Reykjavik
  Title: Cases of the Reincarnation Type and the Mind--Brain Relationship

Discussant

• Joan D. Koss-Chioino, PhD, Arizona State University
• Angélica A.S. Almeida, PhD, Federal Institute for Education, Science, and Technology, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Social Hours (open to all)

8 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Convention Center
Room W102A

Paper Session: Dilemma and Possibility–Philosophical, Theoretical, and Clinical Perspectives (co-sponsored w/Div. 24)

Chair: Mark Freeman, PhD, College of the Holy Cross

Participant/1st Author

• Steven W. Quackenbush, PhD, University of Maine at Farmington
  Title: "And Yet Your Duty Is to Hope": The Positive Psychology of Jean-Paul Sartre
• Marissa E. Barnes, MA, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
  Title: On Common Ground: Empathy As a Fuzzy Concept in Philosophy and Psychology
• Steve Harrist, PhD, Oklahoma State University
  Title: Philosophical and Psychological Contributions to Conceiving the Good Life
• Artur Nilsson, MA, Lund University, Sweden
  Title: Conceptualizing the Study of Personality and Its Untapped Potentials
• Guillaume Beaulac, MA, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
  Title: Foundations of Morality: A Critical Assessment of Haidt's Account of the Moral Domain
• Mary B. Morrissey, PhD, MPH, Fordham University
  Title: Maternal Foundations of Suffering in Serious Illness and Dying: A Social and Developmental Analysis
• Rachel Levine Baruch, BA, Fordham University
  Title: Combined Treatment: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Patient's Experience

Science Unmasked and the Perils of Psychiatric Diagnosis (open to all)

V. K. Kumar & Frank Farley

10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Convention Center
Room W109B

Conversation Hour: DSM-5 Reform Effort–An Interdivisional Meeting

Chair: David N. Elkins, PhD, Pepperdine University

Conversation Hour: The DSM-5 Controversy: Questions and Answers (co-sponsored w/Div. 51)

Cochairs: David N. Elkins, PhD, Pepperdine University; Anthony J. Isacco, PhD, Chatham University

Participant/1st Author

• Frank Farley, PhD, Temple University
• Sarah R. Kamens, MA, Fordham University
• Jonathan Raskin, PhD, State University of New York at New Paltz
• Brent D. Robbins, PhD, Point Park University
• Donna Rockwell, PsyD, Michigan School of Professional Psychology

11 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Convention Center
Room W312C

Symposium: Humanism Outside Humanistic Psychology---Contemporary Faces of a Unifying Tradition (co-sponsored w/Div. 1)

Chair: Frederick J. Wertz, PhD, Fordham University

Participant/1st Author

• Frederick J. Wertz, PhD
  Title: Problematizing Humanism Past and Present
• James T. Lamiell, PhD, Georgetown University
  Title: Critical Personalism As Humanism
• Lisa M. Osbeck, PhD, University of West Georgia
  Title: Science Studies and Acting Persons
• Isaac Prilleltensky, PhD, University of Miami
  Title: In Pursuit of Wellness and Fairness: Two Fundamentals for Psychology and Humanity
• Michelle Fine, PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center
  Title: Critical Solidarity Studies: Humanistic Projects in Social and Feminist Psychologies
• Louise K.W. Sundararajan, PhD, EdD, Rochester Psychiatric Center, N.Y.
  Title: Indigenous Psychologies: Humanism According to Confucius
• Kenneth J. Shapiro, PhD, Animals and Society Institute, Washington Grove, Md.
  Title: Can Animal Science Be Humanistic?
• Wade Pickren, PhD, Pace University
  Title: Golden Thread of Humanism in Psychology

Discussant

• Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, Calif.

Symposium: Humanistic Psychology's Implications for Four Psychology Specialties

Chair: Constance T. Fischer, PhD, Duquesne University

Participant/1st Author

• Constance T. Fischer, PhD
  Title: Humanistic Underpinnings of Collaborative Psychological Assessment
• James Yu, PhD, Hong Kong Baptist University--Shek Mun Campus, Hong Kong SAR
  Title: What Humanistic Psychology Can Do to Recover the Person in Child Developmental Psychology
• Susan G. Goldberg, PhD, JD, Duquesne University
  Title: Understanding the Other: A Humanistic Approach to Forensic Psychological Assessment
• Alexander G. Kranjec, PhD, Duquesne University
  Title: History and Future of a Humanistic Neuroscience

Invited Address: Heritage Awards Ceremony

Co-chairs:

• Susan Gordon, PhD, National University
• David N. Elkins, PhD, Pepperdine University
• Brent D. Robbins, PhD, Point Park University
• Robert Elliott, PhD, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Constance T. Fischer, PhD, Duquesne University

Participant/1st Author

• Alberto Zucconi, PhD, Institute for the Person-Centered Approach, Rome, Italy
  Title: Promoting Change in the 21st Century With the Person-Centered Approach and the Client-Centered Psychotherapy
• Larry Davidson, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine
  Title: Recovery Through Love: The Lingering Legacy of Carl Rogers
• Judy Schreiber-Mosher, BA, Independent Practice, San Diego, Calif.
  Title: Loren R. Mosher, MD

Presidential Address: David Elkins

Chair: Louis Hoffman, PhD, Saybrook University

Participant/1st Author

• David N. Elkins, PhD, Pepperdine University
  Title: Humanistic Psychology: Reports of Its Death Were Greatly Exaggerated

Business Meeting

Chair: David N. Elkins, PhD, Pepperdine University

Social Hour (open to all)

Symposium: Humanizing Psychotherapies–Eastern and Western Philosophies

Chair: Frank Farley, PhD, Temple University

Participant/1stAuthor

• Debbie Joffe Ellis, DrPH, Independent Practice, New York, N.Y.
  Title: Psychology and Philosophy: The Healing Art and Science of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
• Stanley C. Krippner, PhD, Saybrook University
  Title: Philosophical Roots of Humanistic Psychology
• V.K. Kumar, PhD, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  Title: Dharma, Yoga, Karma, and, of Course, Kama-Sutra: India's Philosophical Traditions

JHP meeting with Board (closed)

Qualitative-Quantative Dialogue (open to all)

Emily Maynard and Nazia Rahman

Symposium: Bringing Heidegger Home–A Journey Through the Lived Worlds of Psychologists

Co-chairs: Scott D. Churchill, PhD, University of Dallas; Belinda S.L. Khong, PhD, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Participant/1st Author

• Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, Independent Practice, Santa Monica, Calif.
  Title: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
• Scott D. Churchill, PhD,
  Title: Moving Through Trauma in a Heideggerian Way
• Charles Guignon, PhD, University of South Florida
  Title: Heidegger's Authenticity From a Personal Perspective
• Belinda S.L. Khong, PhD,
  Title: Being a Therapist: Contributions of Heidegger's Philosophy and the Buddha's Teachings to Psychotherapy
• Erik Craig, EdD, Independent Practice, Santa Fe, N.M.
  Title: One-ing and Letting-Be: On the Way to Existential Contemplative Practice

Discussant: Angelica M.D. Tratter, PhD, University of Dallas

Heroism and Humanistic Psychology (open to all)

Frank Farley and Alair Altier

Symposium: Culture and Creativity–Toward a Psychology Beyond the STEM Model (co-sponsored w/Div. 10)

Chair: Louise K.W. Sundararajan, PhD, EdD, Rochester Psychiatric Center, N.Y.

Participant/1st Author

• Dharm P.S. Bhawuk, PhD, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
  Title: A Gita-Based Approach to Creativity in the Work Life
• Joseph E. Trimble, PhD, Western Washington University
  Title: Emergence and Complex Creative Relational Social Order Among American Indians
• Louise K.W. Sundararajan, PhD, EdD,
  Title: Culture: The Missing Link in Scientific Creativity
• Peter Ping Li, PhD, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
  Title: Yin--Yang Balancing: Toward a Metaparadigm of Creative Cognition
• Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD, Swarthmore College
  Title: In Praise of Impurity: Creativity and Cultural Hybridization