Lou Carini

   
     
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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

  • Postdoctoral Fellow:  University of Massachusetts, Mental Health Center, Amherst, MA
1969-1970
  • Training Psychoanalysis: Dr. Harry Bone, New York University Postgraduate Center, Training Psychoanalyst
1968-1970
  • Ph.D.   Clark University (Experimental-Genetic Psychology)
1955
  • M.A.   Clark University (Psychology)   
1951
  • A.B.   Clark University (Honors in Psychology) 
1949

PUBLICATIONS

    Books
  • Spiritual Humanism, Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, 2000.  
  • Three Axioms for a Theory of Conduct: Philosophy, and the Humanistic Science of Psychology, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.             
  •  The Theory of Symbolic Transformations: A Humanistic Scientific Psychology, Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1983. (Completed 1963)
  • Chapters, Articles

  • "The Theory of Phenomenal Psychology." (In press). In J. Valsiner (Ed.), Differentiation and Integration of a Developmentalist: Heinz Werner's Development in Social  Contexts, New York: Kluewer-Plenum.   
  • "Schooling and Education," Teaching and Learning, 2 (1988), 3-8.
  • "Theories of Learning and the Education of Children,"  The Urban Review, 9 (1976), 8-19.
  • "Ernst Cassirer's Psychology: II. The Nature of Thinking," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 9 (1973), 266-269.
  • "Ernst Cassirer's Psychology: The Unification of Perception and Language," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 9 (1973), 148-151.
  •  "Explanations of Percepts and Concepts in Schizophrenia,"  Psychiatria, Neurologia, Neurochirurgia, 76 (1973), 129-138.
  • "On Operant Conditioning and the Study of Culture," Current Anthropology, 14 (1973), 303-305.
  • "Operational Reinforcement and Nonoperational 'Reinforcement:'
  •   Reply to 'Reinforcement for Skinner,'" American Psychologist, 26 (197l), 517-518.
  •    "On the Origins of Language," Current Anthropology, 11 (1970), 165-166. Reprinted (1973) in Henry Clay Lindgren (Ed.), Contemporary Research in Social Psychology, Chapter 8.3, New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • "A Reassessment of Max Wertheimer's Contribution to Psychological Theory," Acta Psychologica, 32 (1970), 377-385.
  • "Teaching as the Liberating Art," The Carleton Miscellany, 11 (1970), 7-13.
  • "Symbolic Transformations Theorem on Language Learning," Proceedings of the 77th APA Convention, 4 (1969), 5-6.
  • "The Theory of Symbolic Transformations," Acta Psychologica, 31(1969), 1-44.
  • "The Fault in Skinner's Teaching Machine," American Psychologist, 24 (1969), 471-473.
  • "Private Events Made Public," Perceptual and Motor Skills, 26(1968), 931-934.
  • "The Aristotelian Basis of Hull's Behavior Theory," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 4 (1968), 109-118.
  • "Symbolic Transformations Theory of Learning," Proceedings of the 75th APA Convention, 2 (1967), 5-6.
  • "Note on the Theory of Symbolic Transformations," Perceptual and Motor Skills, 22 (1966), 750.

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

  • Private Practice of Psychotherapy, College Road, North Bennington, VT
1972-1989
  • Research on Thought and Language
1970-1972
  • Research on the Theory of Visual Perception
1954-1994
  • Research Associate, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York City
1957-1958
  • Research Scientist to Associate Research Scientist, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, Rockland Research Center: Visual Perception-Schizophrenia Project
1952-1958

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

  • Bennington College. Courses taught include: Language and Psychotherapy, Psychology of Art, Systems and Theories of Psychology, Research Methods in Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Visual Perception, The Psychology of Language.
1958-1993
  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Smith College, Northampton, MA
1969-1970
  • Professor, Department of Education, University of Vermont, Summer Session
1965
  • Instructor, Leicester Junior College, Leicester, MA
1951-1952
   

 

   

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