Existential Psych program suggestions?

[namepl]

I'm getting ready for a second run at grad school apps after being passed over last time because my interests were a bit on the vague side. I've drifted towards a humanistic, mostly existential viewpoint since then, and I'm having a bit of trouble finding faculty doing that sort of research. Any suggestions on programs?

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[aagman01]

Good luck on that one!

Forget about finding a clinical psych researcher with a humanistic perspective.

If you don't have a positive or, if your a real radical in the field, to the far left a post-positive orientation towards research, your basically out of luck!

Counseling psych is a bit more supportive of qualitative/humanistic research, I think. Social work, too.

I'm getting ready for a second run at grad school apps after being passed over last time because my interests were a bit on the vague side. I've drifted towards a humanistic, mostly existential viewpoint since then, and I'm having a bit of trouble finding faculty doing that sort of research. Any suggestions on programs?

 

[alansda]

Check out Duquesne University. I don't know about it much, but one of my college professors teaching humanistic psychology went there and so he taught half of the course about existential phenomenology.

 

[JockNerd]

Greg Neimeyer, UF.

 

[mshbe]

Calhoun and Tedeschi do research on posttraumatic growth, which is a construct which has an existential flavor to it. They are both at UNC Charlotte.

 

[PrisonPsych]

Calhoun and Tedeschi do research on posttraumatic growth, which is a construct which has an existential flavor to it. They are both at UNC Charlotte.

...but there's no clinical or counseling psych program there.

 

[mshbe]

...but there's no clinical or counseling psych program there.

The PhD program is in health psych, but they have a clinical track. Although I honestly don't know much about the program other that the fact that Tedeschi and Calhoun are there, who do interesting work with PTG.

 

[deadmau5]

York U in Canada.

 

[psybee]

it's a lot easier to find clinical supervisors who have eclectic/humanistic/existential orientations than primary research mentors. I'm, in an externship right now like that: my research is pretty different than my clinical work..

 

[kbenoit]

Duquense and University of Dallas