Art Hochberg

After receiving his doctorate in Psychology in 1969, Dr. Art Hochberg proved himself to be a dynamic teacher and innovator in the field of Psychology and became the Psychology department head at St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana and taught at Notre Dame, also in South Bend. Over the next nine years, he taught experientially-oriented psychology courses, travelling in Uganda, Ceylon, Israel, and Switzerland, among other countries. He then visited religious centers, spent a year in a Zen Buddhist monastery and has spent thirty-nine years studying with the Sufi Master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen.

In the 70's, Dr. Hochberg was the Clinical Director of the Drug and Alcohol Program at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where he supervised drug and alcohol counselors, and developed treatment programs for the patients at Walson Army Hospital. Following that, he was then Division Chairman of Social Services at Urbana College in Ohio. Next was the Clymer Clinic in Quakertown, PA where he had a practice with doctors who practiced Holistic medicine. In 1979, Dr. Hochberg served as Clinical Director at Fordham-Page Clinic in Radnor, PA where he was responsible for counselor training, nutritional education, and presenting the clinic's holistically-oriented program to the public.

In the early 80's, Dr. Hochberg established his private practice and was known as a nutritional psychologist, since he was one of the few psychologists in the country at that time using nutrition in their practice. Television, radio, and several national magazines and newspapers covered his groundbreaking work. He trained under such notable practitioners as Dr. Paavo Airola, a Finnish Nutritionist; Dr. John Christopher, a leading herbalist; and Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, who was the foremost orthomolecular psychiatrist at the time. Dr. Hochberg joined the International Academy of Preventive Medicine and spoke at several medical conferences about the role of Psychology and the body, appearing with Dr. Linus Pauling, and Dr. Jeffrey Bland, among others. In addition, Dr. Hochberg had a practice at the Center for Preventive Medicine in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania for eleven years.

In 1993, he became the Director of the Holistic Health Program at Rosemont College in PA, and was on the Adjunct Psychology faculty at Widener University. He also worked as a prison psychologist in southern New Jersey. Currently, Dr. Hochberg continues to maintain his own private practice as a licensed psychologist and also serves as an intake psychologist at a Philadelphia inner city mental health clinic. He has written several articles and pamphlets on Transformational Psychology, a term which he coined.