Vice President

Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary humanistic psychology. He is current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vice-president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Schneider has published over 100 articles and chapters and has authored or edited seven books (one more is in preparation), The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature (translated into Portuguese and Slovakian), Horror and the Holy: Wisdom-teachings of the Monster Tale, The Psychology of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective (with Rollo May; currently being translated into Chinese), The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research and Practice (with J. Bugental and F. Pierson), Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, mystery, and the fluid center of life,  and Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice (currently being partly translated into Russian).  Dr. Schneider is the 2004 recipient of the Rollo May award for “outstanding and independent pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology” from the Humanistic Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. Most recently, Dr. Schneider conducted Existential Therapy for an APA video series on psychotherapy (www.apa.org/videos) and with Dr. Ed Mendelowitz, completed the chapter on Existential Psychotherapy for Corsini and Wedding’s Current Psychotherapies (8th ed.).   Dr. Schneider’s most recent book, Existential-Humanistic Therapy (co-authored with Dr. Orah Krug), is in press for the American Psychological Association Monograph series on the major orientations in the field, and his current book in preparation is tentatively titled, Awe-Based Recovery:  Alternatives to Medicine and Dogma.  

Existential philosophy/psychology/theology; humanistic theory, practice, and research; visionary psychology; psychotherapy theory and research; gothic horror; spirituality and anxiety; romanticism and romantic psychology.