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Higher Education

Brooklyn College Psychology
B.A. 1955

Columbia University Educational and Developmental Psychology
M.A. 1960
Ed.D. 1966

Teaching Experience

Teachers College
Assistant in Psychology 1960

Upsala College
Lecturer in Psychology 1960-1961

State University of New York College at Oswego
Assistant Professor, Psychology 1961-1962

Brooklyn College
Lecturer in Psychology 1963-1965

City College, of New York, School of Education,
Social and Psychological Foundations
Lecturer 1965-1967
Assistant Professor 1967-1972
Associate Professor 1973-1979
Professor 1980-1992
Department Chair 1984-1988
Coordinator, Graduate Research Courses 1991-1992
Professor Emeritus 1993-

Consulting and Research Affiliations

Center for Urban Education 1967-1970

E.R.I.C. City University Graduate Center 1968

New York City Board of Education, Educational Evaluation 1975-1978

Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Emotion, City University of New York 1984-1985

Cognition, Language, Information Project (CLIP), City University Graduate Center 1986-1988

Co-Director, Language and Thought Colloquium, City College, City University of New York 1987-1988

Certification

Psychologist, New York State

Publications

Books

(1974). Developments in high school psychology. (Chief Editor; with J.M. Johnson, J. Kaufman, A. Schoeppe, and E. Weiss, Eds.), New York: Behavioral Publications.

(1985). Language and logic in personality and society. New York: Columbia University Press.

Chapters in Books

(1974). Problems and issues in high school psychology. In: H. Fisher, et al, (Eds.) Developments in high school psychology. New York: Behavioral Publications. 3-22.

(1974). Outline for a program of graduate training of high school psychology teachers.
In: H. Fisher, et al, (Eds.) Developments in high school psychology. New York:  Behavioral Publications. 221-230.

(1978). Image grammar and idea formation. In: H. Kozu and R. Mathur, (Eds.) Proceedings: Language, thought and culture symposium - 1976.  Intercultural Research Institute Monograph Service No. 5, 54-71.

(1990). Are individuals motivated to construct categories or do they merely intend meanings?  In: D. Robinson and L. Mos, (Eds.) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. 6. New York: Plenum. 211-218.

(1993). The Mumford effect in psychology: Crisis in the status of psychological paradigms.  In: H. Stam, L. Mos, W. Thorngate, and B. Kaplan (Eds.). Recent trends in theoretical psychology. 3. New York: Springer-Verlag. 263-274.

Journal Editorship

(1973-1976). (Editor-in-chief), Behavioral and Social Science Teacher. A bi-annual journal, New York: Behavioral Publications, 1, 1; 1, 2; 2, 1; 2, 2. 3, 1  [renamed: High School Behavioral Science].

(1976-1977). (Advisory Editor), High School Behavioral Science. 3, 2; 4, l; 4, 2.

Articles

(1964). Similarity, consistency and dissociation in figure drawings with the non-dominant hand.  Perceptual and Motor Skills, 18: 711-712.

(1971). An analysis of repression from the point of view of language and logic.  Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 5: (3-4), 167-174.

(1973). Logic and language in defences. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 3 (2), 157-214.

(1975). Defensive learning: An introduction to a dynamic epistemology, Logique et Analyse, 69-70: 31-50.

(1976). The language and logic of forming an idea. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 6: 177-210.

(1977). From object to image to object. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 6: 105-143.

(1985). The logical structure of Freud's idea of the unconscious:  Toward a psychology of ideas. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 6: (1), 20-35.

(1985). Negation and logic in psychological defenses: a biopsychological perspective.  New Ideas in Psychology, 3: (1), 39-45.

(1992). Artificial Intelligence and Human Reasoning by Joseph Rychlak.  Journal of Mind and Behavior, 13, (2), 193-196.

(1995). Whose right is it to define the self? Theory and Psychology, 5, 323-352.

(1995). Empty sets or empty self. Theory and Psychology, 5, 391-400.

(1995) Context and category: the post-modern power politics of category expropriation.  Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 15, 111-143.

(1998) Metonymy, Metaphor, and Category: Logic versus Semantics. Semiotica, 121, (1/2), 41-87.

(1999) Post-modern agency: You and I can show it; not own it. Theory and Psychology, 9, 103-112.

(2000) Karl Jaspers Forum. Electronic form (February, 2000) Consciousness is an Island.  Commentary on "Mental Activity and Consciousness in the Framework of the Organism-Environment Theory", by Timo Jarvilehto.

Papers Presented

(September, 1971). The need for graduate education in pre-college psychology. City College, New York.

(December, 1971). Negation and repression: gone but not forgotten. 3th Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Panama City.

(January, 1972). Who is and who will be the high school psychologist? Symposium for Pre-College Psychology, City College, New York.

(March, 1972). Defense and learning. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, St. Louis.

(December, 1972). The natural language of repression. Merida Seminar on Language Instruction and Research, Merida, Yucatan.

(December, 1972). Psycho-analysis and language analysis. Merida Seminar on Language Instruction and Research, Merida, Yucatan.

(February, 1973). Invited address: The state of the state of *is* is the state of the state. Sixth Annual Mardi Gras Symposium on Language, Communication, and Social Policy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

(April, 1973). What repression are you measuring? Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

(April, 1973). Communication across different levels in behavioral science. Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

(August, 1973). A postmasters program for the training of teachers of pre-College psychology. American Psychological Association.

(August, 1976). Invited address: Image grammar and idea formation. Symposium on Intercultural Communication. (Sponsored by the University of Kansai, Osaka, Japan.)  University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii.

(April, 1980). Aristotle`s four causes and the science of psychology.  Eastern Psychological Association, Hartford.

(January, 1981). Invited address: The invasion of the mind by two psychological versions of logical positivism. Institute for Cognitive Studies, Rutgers University, Newark.

(April, 1981). Poetry; a generative form for psychology, science, and philosophy.  Eastern Psychological Association, New York.

(January, 1982). Invited Address: The language of negation and defense. Symposium on Psychological Defenses and the Development of Personality and Culture, National University of Mexico, Mexico City.

(September, 1984). Invited address: The logic of personality: a biopsychological perspective.  XIII Congress of International Psychology, Acapulco.

(February, 1985). Self, negation, and defense. CLIP Seminar, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York.

(August, 1986). Reasoning and personality. Human Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence Symposium.  Linguistic Institute (CUNY) New York.

(August, 1987). Metaphor and agency. American Psychological Association, New York.

(August, 1988). Unconscious inference and the construction of a psychologist's understanding.  American Psychological Association, Atlanta.

(June, 1991). The Mumford Effect in Psychology: Crisis in the status of psychologists' hypotheses. International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Clark University, Worchester.

(April, 1992). Three attitudes toward the truth of paradigms in psychology:  Nullify; falsify; reify. Eastern Psychological Association, Boston.

(May, 1995). The self and its relation to the logical space of hypotheses. Einstein meets Magritte: an interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, human nature, and society, Brussels, Belgium.

(July, 1997). Metynomy, metaphor, and category. Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

(November, 1997). Metaphor and Category in Art and Psychology. 1997 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference. M/MLA . Science and Literature Session, Chicago, Illinois.

Discussant

(May, 1984). Mimicry: A multidisciplinary perspective. Biology Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

(July, 1997). Metynomy as a conceptual motivation for metaphor. Fifth International Cognitive Linguistic Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Chair: Symposia and Paper Sessions

(January, 1972). Symposium on Pre-College Psychology. City College, New York.

(August, 1974). Symposium on language and communication in personality and society.  International council for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Kingston, Ontario.

(April, 1982). Cognitive text-processing. Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore.

(August, 1983). Do psychologist know what an idea is? American Psychological Association, Anaheim.

(July-August, 1986). Symposium on Human reason and artificial intelligence.  Linguistic Institute, CUNY, New York.

(March, 1989). Symposium: Locus of control, applications to school settings, and the training of school psychologists. Eastern Psychological Association. Boston.

(April, 1989). Symposium: Locus of control, applications to school settings, and the training of school psychologists. (Organized and led symposium of faculty members and graduate students in School Psychology. The EPA Locus of control presentation was "re-run" for faculty and students of the Program.) City College, New York.

(June, 1991). Individual causes: aggregated effects (2). Paper session on individual causal factors of response expectancy moods, and social cognition.  International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Clark University, Worcester.

(April, 1992). What attitudes permit paradigm shifts in psychology and physics?  Symposium at Eastern Psychological Association Meeting. Boston.

(October, 1996). A particularly compelling refutation of eliminative materialism.  The Mind as Scientific Object: an Interdisciplinary Conference, York University, Toronto.

Reviewer

Journal of Mind and Behavior.
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.
New Ideas in Psychology.
Theory and Psychology.
Columbia University Press.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Introduction to Psychology
Psychology of Personality
Psychology of Adjustment
Social Psychology
Psychology of Child development
Psychology of Learning and Teaching

Graduate

Educational Social Psychology
Psychology of motivation
Psychology of Child Development
Psychology of Learning and Teaching
Introduction to Educational Research
Individual Study in Educational Research
Psychology of the Adult
Psycholinguistic Development
Humanizing Adult Education
Advanced Educational Psychology I:  Learning and Instruction
Advanced Educational Psychology II:  Development, Personality and Social Factors
Personality Deviation

College Community Activities, Committee Memberships, and Professional Service

Professional

American Psychological Association Division 24 Task Force Committee on philosophical psychology

University-wide

Chair, Cross-College Committee on Cognitive Science.

College-wide

Search Committee, Director for Center for Computers and Learning
Committee on City College Press
College Skills Subcommittee, serving Faculty
Senate Educational Policies Committee

School-wide

Chair, Personnel and Budget Committee
Student Advisory Committee
Chair, Research and Publications Committee
Editor, Graduate Research Journal
Director, Postmasters course sequence for teachers of high school Psychology
School of Education Executive Committee
Coordinator, Graduate Research Courses

Ad Hoc Committees

School of Education Directions Committee
Implementation Committees:  
    Search Committee for Field Service Coordinator
    Search Committee for Executive Director of Institute for Educational Studies and Development

Planning Committees

Humanistic Education Conference
Conference on Mainstreaming
Program on Learning Disabilities

Departmental

Chair, Department
Executive Committee
Curriculum Committee
Appointments Committee
Educational Policies Committee
Course Chair, Psychology of Learning and Teaching
Coordinator, Undergraduate Independent Studies
Department Directions Steering Committee:
    Introduced and developed field work; developed component for undergraduate Psychology of Learning for
    cooperating community schools.

City College Publications and Reports

(1967). A field work program for psychology of learning.
(1969-1972). (Editor-in-chief), Graduate research in education and related disciplines. 4,(2); 5, (1), (2); 6, (1),
    (2); 7, (1).
(1969). (Editor), Readings in the Psychology of Learning. New York: Selected Academic Readings.
(1969). (With M. Bye and A. Herr). An evaluation of the pilot program in teacher education.
(1972). Post-Masters program for high school teacher of psychology.
(1987). Departmental Self Study.
(1987). Social and Psychological Foundations Field Station.

Clinical Experience and Affiliations

Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital
Psychological Intern 1962-1963

Board of Cooperative Educational Services
School Psychologist in Special Education 1963-1964

City College, Office of Educational Research
Clinical Research Psychologist 1964-1965

New York University Medical Center Consultation Center for Alcoholism
Psychologist 1967-1969

Private Practice Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychologist 1967-

Metropolitan Center for Training in Psychotherapy
Supervisor of psychotherapy 1977-1978

Membership in Professional Societies

American Psychological Association, Divisions 8, 24, 26
Eastern Psychological Association
History of Science Society
International Society for Theoretical Psychology

Kappa Delta Pi