Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D.
Vice President
Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and world renowned spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vice-president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Graduate School, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. He is also a Fellow of three Divisions of the American Psychological Association (Humanistic, Clinical, and Independent Practice). Dr. Schneider has published over 100 articles and chapters and has authored or edited eight books: The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature (Humanity Books, 1999; translated into Portuguese and Slovakian), Horror and the Holy: Wisdom-teachings of the Monster Tale (Open Court, 1993), The Psychology of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective, coauthored with Rollo May (McGraw-Hill; translated into Chinese Short-Form), The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research and Practice coauthored with J. Bugental and F. Pierson (Sage Pub., 2001,2002); Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, mystery, and the fluid center of life (Paragon House, 2004), Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice (Routledge, 2008; currently being partly translated into Russian), Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation (Jason Aronson, 2009), and Existential-Humanistic Therapy coauthored with Orah Krug (American Psychological Association, 2010) - accompanied by APA video demonstrating E-H therapy. More information can be retrieved about Dr. Schneider’s work at his website, kirkjschneider.com, as well as at apa.org/videos. In April, 2010, Dr. Schneider has been invited to be the keynote speaker at the First Bi-Annual East-West Existential Psychology Conference in Nanjing, China.
Interviews and Talks
Dr. Schneider is a prominent lecturer and workshop leader at both national and international venues. These venues include the American Psychological Association (1987--); the first Soviet-American Humanistic Psychology Conference, Moscow (1991); the Lithuanian Association for Humanistic Psychology, University of Vilnius (1992/1996); Stanford University Medical Center (1995); Duquesne University (as visiting scholar) (1996), Seattle University (1992), Esalen Institute (1995), the Ernest Becker Foundation, Seattle (1992,1996, 2004); the Pacific News Service, San Francisco (1995); Lucasfilms /Skywalker Ranch, Novato, CA (1997); The Cleveland Museum of Art (1998), The Madness and Creativity Conference, Santa Fe, NM (1999), the International Network for Personal Meaning Conference, Vancouver, B.C. (2000, 2002, 2004), The State University of West Georgia (2002), The Center for Humanistic Studies (2004) (as visiting lecturer), and Seattle University (2004). He was the yearly visiting scholar for the East European Association for Existential Psychotherapy (a 5 nation organization) in Birstonas, Lithuania, in September of 2005, and in January 2006- he became a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of the Rockies Psychology Department in Colorado Springs, followed by guest lectures/workshops at the University of Laval, Department of Counseling and Education, Quebec City, Canada, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, the Japanese Academy of Counselors in Tokyo, the China Institute of Psychotherapy,
Dr. Schneider has also appeared on a variety of television and radio broadcasts including PBS TV’s Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove, KQED’s Forum radio program with Michael Krasny, KPFA’s Spirit in Action radio program with the Reverend Matthew Fox, and TV Ontario’s Big Ideas program featuring prominent lecturers. His books have been favorably reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Common Boundary Magazine, Vogue, Tikkun Magazine, Spirituality and Health, the Institute for Noetic Science’s Shift Magazine, the Association for Humanistic Psychology’s Perspective, the San Francisco Jung Institute Journal, Psychotherapy, The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and APA’s Contemporary Psychology (now PsycCritiques).