Future Students

Our professors are role models who demonstrate firsthand the unique contributions of psychology to the helping professions. They are actively engaged in both clinical practice and research, and share their work experiences— whether clinical or research —with students, both in the classroom and in independent study. Also, our colloquium program provides a forum for a wider network of invited professionals who share their current work and interests with the PGSP community.

• DR. LARRY BEUTLER,  PROFESSOR
  

“ Dr. Beutler is the quintessential scientist-practitioner who integrates science into his teaching, practice, leadership, and publications. His contributions provide researchers and clinicians alike with an original, evidence-based approach to constructing optimal treatment matches that demonstrably improve the effectiveness of psychotherapy. His accomplishments are legend and numerous...all placing him among an elite handful of the most cited and influential individuals in all of psychology.”
APA AWARD CITATION

• DR. PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO, PROFESSOR
  

Philip G. Zimbardo, the son of Sicilian immigrants who grew up in the Bronx in the 1940s, is internationally recognized as the voice and face of contemporary psychology. He is known for his PBS TV series Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, his popular books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment. He has also been visible as a social and political activist, challenging the government’s wars in Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the American correctional system. Dr. Zimbardo has received many awards and honors for service to the profession of psychology as an educator, researcher, and writer. Recently he was awarded the Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. Stanford professor Benoit Monin has called him “the godfather” of academic psychologists.

In his course Explorations in Human Nature, PGSP students study madness, hypnosis, the psychology of evil, the social-personal aspects of memory, and the use of social psychology to understand such phenomena as abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and throughout the war zone in Iraq. He explored these concerns in his 2007 book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.

• DR. PETER GOLDBLUM, PROFESSOR

Peter Goldblum is a pioneer in community-based mental health programs for LGBTQ clients, with 35 years’ experience in serving this population. A PAU graduate, Dr. Goldblum also received an M.P.H. from UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He was a founder and original Deputy Director of
the UCSF AIDS Health Project and a visiting scholar and Director of the HIV Bereavement Study at Stanford University.

Author of two highly acclaimed books, Dr. Goldblum has contributed to the literature related to gay men’s health, AIDS-related suicide, end-of life issues, HIV and work, and AIDS bereavement. His current research interests include: child-on-child aggression (bullying), HIV and work, the development of sexual identity, and internalized homophobia. Dr. Goldblum leads PGSP’s commitment to training clinical psychologists who are competent in LGBTQ practice and research. Students in both the Ph.D. and Psy.D. programs participate in the LGBTQ Program.

“ Students come here with dreams. They want to change the world, work with underserved children, help people through crises, help trauma victims live better lives, and relieve suffering. But they often wonder, ‘How on earth do I get from being a nervous new student just starting to do block design without dropping the blocks to being a real-life, full-fledged professional psychologist engaged in the world of clients, health care, and all...?’

At PGSP, we answer by creating a support system for students as they transition from trainee to psychologist, from aspiration to career. We take full advantage of a rich and varied faculty along with community services to link doctoral education to making a difference in the world.”

--LULI EMMONS, PH.D., VICE-PRESIDENT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT