Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

• Personality Theory and Psychotherapy
• Human Development
• Psychoanalytic Theory

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Patient-Therapist Interaction
• Gender Development
• Educational Process and Teaching
• Spirituality and Human Development

• 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:

• 1975-1977: Public Health Service Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship in Social- Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Medical School
• 1975: Whiting Foundation Fellowship
• 1970-1971: NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship
• 1967: Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania

Publications:

• 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.
• 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. (2004). The teacher's tin cup: Engaging fantasy and feeling in the classroom. Schools, 1(2).
• Osherson, S. (2003, February). [Book review of The angel and the dragon]. Counselor, 4, 69.
• 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.

Professional Experience:

• Doctoral Faculty, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University.

Other Professional Activities:

• 2004-present: Faculty (part time), Stanley King Counseling Institute, Cambridge, MA.
• 2000-present: Director, Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 1999-present: Presenter, Commonwealth Educational Seminars.
• 1983-present: Private Practice, Psychotherapy (part time), Cambridge, MA.
• Journal Reviewer: Counselor, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Fathering.