Philip Cushman
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Core Faculty, School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
Summary of Education and Relevant Experience
B.A., UCLA; M.A., California State University; M.A., United States International University; Ph.D., Saybrook Institute. Philip Cushman is a psychologist whose academic fields of interest include psychotherapy, theoretical and philosophical psychology and the history of psychotherapy. He has published a book on the history of psychotherapy and numerous articles in journals such as American Psychologist and has a private practice on Vashon Island.
Selected Publications
Cushman, Philip. "Empathy—What One Hand Giveth, the Other Taketh Away."Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 9, 2009.
Cushman, Philip. "A Burning World, an Absent God: Midrash, Hermeneutics, and Relational Psychoanalysis." Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 43, 47-88, 2007.
Cushman, Philip. "Between Arrogance and a Dead-end: Psychoanalysis and the Heidegger/Foucault Dilemma." Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41, 399-417, 2005.
Cushman, Philip. "How Psychology Erodes Personhood." Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 22, 103-113, 2002.
Cushman, Philip. Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Selected Presentations
"Broken Hearts, Troubled Minds: Psychotherapists in the Public Commons." Invited Address, Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility. Portland, OR, November 2006.
"A Cultural History of Psychotherapy: Where Do Psychotherapy Narratives Come From?" Keynote Address at Therapeutic Conversations: Ideology in Practice. Vancouver, BC, June 2006.
Commencement Address, California School of Professional Psychology. Oakland, CA, May 2005.
"The Subtlest Kind of Corporate Control: Managed Care and the Shaping of the Self." Keynote Address for "The Psychic Cost of Managed Care." San Francisco, CA, November 2002.
"Multiculturalism and the Problems of Privilege." Invited Address, Division 26 (History), APA Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA, August 2001.
Contact Information
School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy 206-268-4810
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