Cognitive Behavior Therapy Institute
and Cyberclinic


Douglas Y. Seiden, Ph.D.

Dr. Seiden is a clinical psychologist, licensed in New York and New Jersey.

He received his B.A. in Psychology from Franklin and Marshall College, a B.A. and Masters in Linguistics from the University of Paris, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Combined Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University

He received specialized training in cognitive behavior therapy as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and as a Professional Associate of Psychology in Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He also completed training in hypnotherapy at the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.

He was Founding President of the Cross-Cultural Behavior Therapy Special Interest Group of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy; has published in books and journals on cognitive behavioral assessment and therapy and culture; has presented research at national and international conferences; and wrote definitions for the entries Cross-Cultural Behavior Therapy and Ethnocentrism in Key Words in Multicultural Interventions: A Dictionary (Mio, Trimble, Arredondo, Cheatham & Sue, 1999). He has recently written an article on the interface between cognitive behavior therapy and transpersonal psychology that will appear in The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2010, Vol. 42, No. 1.

He is on the Medical Staff of St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, NJ, as an Affiliate in the Department of Psychiatry. He is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the New Jersey Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists, the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, the Association for Humanistic Psychology the NY Milton H. Erickson Society for Hypnosis and Psychotherapy and the William James Society. He is on the Editorial Board of the new Journal of Transpersonal Research and has served as an invited reviewer for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

He looks forward to the American Psychological Association eventually recognizing Transpersonal Psychology as a valid area of scientific inquiry (as did the British Psychological Society in 1996) by granting it formal (e.g., Division) status, for, as Georgi Lozanov noted in his Outlines of Suggestopedy, "No one is entitled to deny a science that is unknown to him," and as St. John of the Cross said, in a spirit of a true scientist -- of the spirit, in his case -- "In order to arrive at that which thou knowest not, thou must go by a way that thou knowest not."

Dr. Seiden has served as NGO Representative to the United Nations for the International Union of Psychological Science, and is currently teaching and supervising doctoral students for the California School of Professional Psychology Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in collaboration with the City University of Hong Kong.




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