Judy Schavrien: Bio

Judy Schavrien, Ph.D., MFT
Ph.D., Psychology History and Systems (Committee on Social Thought), University of Chicago, 1973
M.A., same, University of Chicago, 1971
B.A., General Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1966
Judy Schavrien is a retired associate professor and former chair of the Global Doctoral Program in Psychology. She has been a Board member for Sofia's predecessor, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, for Association of Humanistic Psychology, elected as the first out gay member, and for other organizations. Honored for innovation in feminist teaching and curriculum design by the Association of Women in Psychology, she team-founded the world's first two graduate degrees in Women's Spirituality. Her 1989-90 Feminist Transpersonal Psychology course and related publication were groundbreaking.
As a clinician, she was audience consultant to the Oprah Winfrey Show; she appeared in the Winfrey show "Lesbian Couples." Her research interests focus on the clinical, e.g. PTSD, and on Buddhist spirituality, the political, and the arts.
Judy, who had been treating post-trauma stress in others, contracted it after a mugging in which she was shot in the face. Her healing journey led to residence in India and the Far East, and study with Sogyal Rinpoche, the laughing lama.
In her research, she reconnects transpersonal psychology to its roots in world literature. Her book, What Rhymes with Cancer, focuses on Dutch attitudes toward war and illness, and, in her contributions to three anthologies, she explores classical Greek and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives. Her present book in progress, most of it now published as articles, spans Late Vision in Western Culture: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ingmar Bergman.
She favors methodological approaches suitable for transformative ends: organic and intuitive inquiry, heuristic or narrative inquiry. A prize-winning theorist and creative artist, with 16 awards, from local to international, her web galleries are at www.jesart.net



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