The Award for Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology is the division’s highest award, and recognizes one of its members each year for life-time scholarly achievement
CONGRATULATIONS
DR. MARY WATKINS
Chair, Depth Psychology Program
Recipient of the 2019
The Award for Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology
Formal Presentation of the award during the upcoming Annual Midwinter Meeting at Vanderbilt University
(March 1-3, 2019)
About the Award:
The Award for Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology is the division’s highest award, and recognizes one of its members each year for life-time scholarly achievement.
Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology encourages and facilitates informed exploration and discussion of psychological theories and issues in both their scientific and philosophical dimensions and interrelationships. The division presents an award for the best student paper submitted to the division for the annual APA convention. The division’s Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology is sent to members quarterly.
About Dr. Mary Watkins:
Dr. Mary Watkins is chair of the Depth Psychology Program and serves as Coordinator of Community and Ecological Fieldwork and Research in the Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Indigenous Psychology and Ecopsychology specialization (CLIE). She is a clinical and developmental psychologist and was an early member of the archetypal/imaginal psychology movement. She has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings and with groups on issues of peace, diversity, social justice, reconciliation, immigration, and the envisioning of community and cultural transformation. She is the author of Waking Dreams, Invisible Guests: The Development of Imaginal Dialogues, co-author of Toward Psychologies of Liberation, and Talking with Young Children about Adoption, and co-editor of Psychology and the Promotion of Peace. Please find Dr. Watkins’ publications available for download here. Courses Taught: Public Conversation, Phenomenology and Presentation of Depth Psychological Cultural and Ecological Fieldwork, Psychologies of Liberation, Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Traditions, Liberatory Pedagogies, Community/Ecological Fieldwork.
About The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology:
The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (STPP) encourages and facilitates informed exploration and discussion of psychological theories and issues in both their scientific and philosophical dimensions and interrelationships. Within the American Psychological Association, the Society is known as Division 24.
Additional information: https://www.theoreticalpsychology.org/
