Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. (born 1951) is a licensed
American
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clinical and
forensic psychologist, a former pupil and protégé of Dr.
Rollo May, and notable author of ''Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity'' (with foreword by Rollo May, SUNY Press, 1996). His work focuses on the psychological topics of anger, violence, evil, mental illness, and the
daimonic.
Biography
After practicing in the
San Francisco Bay
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Area for more than 20 years, he relocated in 1999 to
Los Angeles, where he currently resides and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in the Beverly Hills area. In addition to specializing in adult psychotherapy and what he calls "existential depth psychology," Dr. Diamond was for many years a designated forensic psychologist for the Los Angeles County Superior Court (Criminal Division). He was a resident faculty member in the Department of Psychology at both
Argosy University and
Ryokan College
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in Los Angeles, served as a clinical supervisor at
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and taught most recently at Loyola Marymount University. He currently serves on the Board of Editors of the
Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
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Selected bibliography
* Contributor to ''Meeting the Shadow'' by C.Zweig & J.Abrams (1991), Tarcher:
*
Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity
' (1996), SUNY Press:
* Contributor to ''Contemporary Theory and Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy'' by H. Tinsley, S.Lease, & N. Wiersma (SAGE, 2015)
See also
* Carl Jung
* Humanistic psychology
References
Living people
1951 births
Forensic psychologists
American clinical psychologists
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