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For about 37 years the Department has sponsored a minicourse (one credit), held over a weekend, each Spring and each Fall. This program has allowed us to expose faculty and students to thinkers and subject matter beyond our own resources.

These instructors are invited because of their national or international standing and because of their known expertise, typically in human science psychology. Students are consulted regarding possible instructors, and their input is taken into consideration when making the final choice. Recent faculty include:

Date	Instructor	Title
October 24-26, 2008	Robert Whitaker has covered medicine and science for nearlly 20 years. He was the science and medical reporter at the Albany Times Union Newspaper in New York for a number of years, and he also worked for a period as director of publications at Harvard Medical School. In 1994, he co-founded a publishing company, CenterWatch, which reported on pharmaceutical industry, and the business aspects of the clinical testing of new drugs.	Reality check: What the scientific literature has to reveal about mental disorders and the merits of our drug-based paradigm of care
April 4-6 2008	William J. Purcell, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the co-founder of Children's Charter, a counseling and advocacy center for children and families in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is currently an associate professor in psychology and chairs the Department of Humanities and Human Sciences at Point Park University and he maintains a supervisory practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Boston, Massachusetts.	Families, Social Justice, and the Law
Oct 5-7, 2007	Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., teaches at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (1994), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2004), and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006).	The Psychodynamic diagnostic manual: An effort at clinically relevant diagnosis
February 2, 2007	Robert Sardello, Ph.D., Robert Sardello, Ph.D. is co-founder of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992.	Body Awareness: From Body-Soul to Soul-Body
October 27-29, 2006	David Abram, Ph.D., is a cultural ecologist, philosopher, and educator whose work has had a spreading influence on the environmental movement in North America and aboard.	Depth Ecology: The Wild Horizons of Ecological Psychology
February 24-26, 2006	Eliana Gil, Ph.D., is founder and therapist at the Abused Children's Treatment Services in Fairfax, Virginia . http://www.elianagil.com/	The use of play therapy in the assessment and treatment of abused and traumatized children
October 7-9, 2005	Richard Doyle earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and was the Mellon Post Doct Fellow in History and Social Science, Medicine, Technology & Culture in the Department of English at Penn State University.	Darwin's Pharmacy
March 4-6, 2005	Isaac Prilleltensky was born in Argentina and has lived in Israel, Canada and Australia prior to joining Vanderbilt University in 2003. Isaac has published about 80 articles and book chapters and five books.	Community Psychology: Critical Approaches to Liberation and Well-Being
Fall 2004	George Atwood, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Professor of Psychology.	The Development of the Intersubjective Viewpoint in Psychoanalysis, with Special Reference to the Study of Psychotic States
Spring 2004	George Kunz, Ph.D., has been a teacher of psychology and philosophy in Existential-Phenomenological Therapeutic Psychology at Seattle University since 1971.	Phenomenology of Facing
Fall 2003	Lewis Gordon, Professor of Africana Studies, Modern culture and Media, and Latin-American Studeis at Brown University; Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica; and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.	Four Lectures on Power
Spring 2003	Elizabeth Debold, Independent Scholar and Editor of What is Enlightenment? She is founding member of the Project on Girl's Development and Women's Psychology at Harvard University.	Beyond Gender: Human Development and Liberation from an Evolutionary Perspective
Fall 2002	Les Todres, Clinical Psychologist and Reader in Interprofessional Care at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University, UK	"Embodied Inquiry: Some Touchstones and Openings for Qualitative Research"
Spring 2002	David R. Loy, Professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University, Chigasaki, Japan	"The Lack of Self - Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism and Buddhism"
Fall 2001	Mladen Dolar, Professor for Modern Philosophy, Ljubljana University and Slavoj Zizek, member Slovene Lacanian group, Senior Researcher at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut	"Towards A Lacanian Critique of Ideology"
Spring 2001	James Griffith, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology and Melissa Griffith, MSN, Clinical Assistant Professor, both with George Washington University Medical Center	"The Body’s Voice in Psychotherapy: Implications for Clinical Practice"
Fall 2000	Paul Roazen, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, York University	"Political Theory and Depth Psychology"
Spring 2000	Jill Morawski, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Weslyan University	"Masculinities: Negotiating the Mirrors of Gender"
Fall 1999	Ernesto Spinelli, Ph.D., Dean of Regent’s College School of Psychotherapy and Counseling, London	"The Therapeutic Relationship: An Existential Phenomenological Perspective"
Spring 1999	Robert Sherry, Ph.D., Independent practice, Pittsburgh	"An Introduction to Child Psychotherapy"
Fall 1998	Alan Goldstein, Ph.D., John Jay School of Criminal Justice, and CUNY Graduate Center	"An Introduction to Forensic Psychology"
Spring 1998	Kenneth Gergen, Ph.D., Professor, Swarthmore College	"The Social Construction of Knowledge in Psychology"
Fall 1997	Fred Evans, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University	"Merleau-Ponty and the Foundations of Psychology"
Spring 1997	Edward Sampson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, California State University	"Psychology’s Problem with the Other"