SAMUEL DAVID OSHERSON

PhD, Clinical Psychology

Harvard University, 1972

sosherson@fielding.edu

 

 

 

Internship: Boston Veterans Administration Hospital and Newton Mental Health Center, 1969-1970

 

Licensure: MA

 

Current Professional Appointment:

 

Faculty (unranked)

School of Psychology

Fielding Graduate University

 

Areas of Instruction:

 

Personality Theory and Psychotherapy

Human Development

Psychoanalytic Theory

 

Research Interests:

 

Patient-Therapist Interaction

Gender Development

Educational Process and Teaching

Spirituality and Human Development

 

Practice Interests:

 

Group Psychotherapy

Gender Identity and Development

Clinical Supervision

 

Professional Memberships:

 

American Group Psychotherapy Association

American Psychological Association (39)

Massachusetts Psychological Association

National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology

Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy

 

 

Honors and Awards:

 

1967: Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania

 

1975: Whiting Foundation Fellowship

 

1970-1971: NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship

 

1975-1977: Public Health Service Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship in Social- Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Professional Activities in Last Seven Years

 

Publications:

 

Osherson, S. (2001). Finding our fathers: How a man's life is shaped by the relationship with his father (Rev. ed.). New York: Contemporary Books.

 

Osherson, S. (2001). Rekindling the flame: How Jews are returning to Judaism. New York:

Harcourt.

 

Osherson, S. (2003, February). [Book review of The angel and the dragon]. Counselor, 4, 69.

 

Osherson, S. (2004). The teacher's tin cup: Engaging fantasy and feeling in the classroom. Schools, 1(2).

 

Osherson, S. (in press). [Book review of Between fathers and sons: Critical incident narratives in the development of men's lives]. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

 

Osherson, S. (in press). A new version of American Judaism? Jewish Currents.

 

Osherson, S (in press) Book review of My Father Before Me. Fathering: A Journal.

 

 

Other Professional Activities:

 

1983-present: Private Practice, Psychotherapy (part time), Cambridge, MA.

 

1999-present: Presenter, Commonwealth Educational Seminars.

 

2000-present: Director, Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

2004-present: Faculty (part time), Stanley King Counseling Institute, Cambridge, MA.

 

Journal Reviewer: Counselor, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Fathering.