Stephen A. Diamond

Licensed clinical and forensic psychologist Stephen A. Diamond is a former pupil and protégé of Dr. Rollo May, and the author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity (1996, foreword by Rollo May). Other publications include chapters in the best-selling anthology Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Tarcher/Putnam, 1991), Spirituality and Psychological Health (Colorado School of Professional Psychology Press, 2005), Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil (Humana Press, 2005), The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (Springer, 2009), Contemporary Theory and Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy (SAGE, 2016), The Complexity of Psychopathy (Springer, 2021), and the forthcoming APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology (APA Books, 2025), as well as various professional articles in the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, the Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, and the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, among others. Dr. Diamond is former Assistant Clinical Professor and Training Clinic Director at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (now Palo Alto University). He has also taught courses at John F. Kennedy University, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Argosy University, Ryokan College, and the C.G. Jung Institut-Zurich (Switzerland). Dr. Diamond has been a practicing clinician for almost fifty years, specializing primarily in adult psychodynamic and existential psychotherapy or what he calls "existential depth psychology." He served for more than a decade as a member of the Approved Panel of Psychiatrists and Psychologists for the Los Angeles County Superior Court (Criminal Division), and prior to that worked for the criminal division of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Dr. Diamond provides clinical supervision to graduate students at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, presently maintains a private psychotherapy practice, serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, for many years wrote a popular blog ("Evil Deeds") for Psychology Today, and is the Consulting Psychologist to a private residential psychiatric facility in Los Angeles.

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