Jack Martin

Jack Martin began as an educational and counselling psychologist, and spent many years as a researcher of counselling and psychotherapy. By mid-career, he became devoted to the history and theory of psychology. At the end of 2018, he retired from his position as Burnaby Mountain Chair of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian and American Psychological Associations, former President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (STPP), lead editor of the "Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology", founding editor of the "Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology", and recipient of the STPP’s Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Much of his later career work has focused on the psychology of personhood and the psycho-biographical study of individual lives. Since retiring, Jack has written two books of non-fiction for a general audience--"Hometown Asylum: A History and Memoir of Institutional Care" and "Peter & Pierre: The Lives, Battles, and Political Visions of Peter Lougheed and Pierre Trudeau". His most recent book is "Studies in Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography", published in June, 2024 by Routledge.