Daniel Kriegman
Daniel Kriegman is an American psychologist and writer whose work focuses on the interface between psychoanalysis and evolutionary biology. He was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England,[1] and a creative consultant[2] for the Edgeline Films (Showtime) docu-series "Couples Therapy." Dr. Kriegman was formerly Chief Psychologist and the Director of Supervision and Training at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Offenders, as well as the Clinical Director for the maximum-security, intensive-treatment unit for adolescents in Boston.
Kriegman is co-author, with Malcolm Slavin, of The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process, a book that created the psychoanalytic paradigm known as evolutionary psychoanalysis, and co-editor, with J. G. Teicholz, of Trauma, Repetition, & Affect Regulation: The Work of Paul Russell. He has published over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters on topics related to the evolutionary understanding of human behavior and the theory and practice of psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy.
He has a full-time private practice providing psychoanalytic treatment to individuals, couples, and families in Newton, Massachusetts, as well as specialized work in forensic psychology (e.g., expert witness testimony in cases involving the prediction of dangerousness).
He was the founder of Zuzu's Place, which tried to develop a cooperative housing alternative (in Whitman, Massachusetts) to the mental health system for people who had been diagnosed with major mental illnesses.[3]
Kriegman is also one of the founders of an open source religion called Yoism[4][5][6][7] and is the author of "The Word according to Yo."
Selected works
[edit]Books
[edit]- The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process, with Malcolm Slavin ISBN 0-89862-795-8 (Guilford Press, 1992).
- Trauma, Repetition, & Affect Regulation: The Work of Paul Russell. Teicholz, J. G. & Kriegman, D. (Eds.), 1998. New York: The Other Press.
- THE BOOK OF WAR: The Evolutionary Biology of Racism, Religious Hatred, Nationalism, Terrorism, and Genocide ISBN 979-8989740505 (Natural Selections, 2023). The Book of War has been described by Andrew Newberg as "a fascinating and expansive account of the evolutionary nature of warfare. Important reading for anyone interested in knowing more about the human desire for violence," and by Matthew Levinger as having "important implications for research on conflict resolution as well as for current policy debates ... In the scope and sweep of its argument, the book is a magisterial accomplishment."[8]
Doctoral thesis
[edit]- A Psycho-social Study of Religious Cults From the Perspective of Self Psychology (University Microfilms International, 1980), can be found here.
- Appendix A to this doctoral thesis describes the recruitment process by which followers are inducted into a religious cult, Guru Mahara Ji's Divine Light Mission.
References
[edit]- ^ Heidi Beirich (April 22, 2007). "California State University, Long Beach Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald Publishes Anti-Semitic Books". Southern Poverty Law Center.
- ^ Ann Farmer (Winter 2020). "Breakups and Breakthroughs: A Showtime docuseries takes viewers behind the closed doors of therapy with a clinical psychologist". The Magazine of the Television Academy.
- ^ Loren Mosher and Robert Whitaker on Schizophrenia on YouTube. Robert Whitaker and Loren Mosher (shortly before Dr. Mosher's death in 2004), interviewed at Zuzu's Place by Dr. Kriegman about the Soteria model and the problems with drug treatment of schizophrenia.
- ^ Charles Piller (2006-07-23). "Divine Inspiration From the Masses". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ^ Matt Gunderson (January 11, 2004). "Taking 'yo' off the street and into church". Globe Newspaper Company.
- ^ Carol Demare (2009-12-09). "Religion called Yoism plays role in appeal". Albany Times-Union.
- ^ Gary Craig (2011-04-11). "Civil commitment still evolving in N.Y." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
- ^ From the back cover of the book.
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