Michael St. Clair

Professor of Psychology
B.A., M.A., Boston College; M.A., Trinity College; M.Th., Woodstock College; Ph.D., Boston University

Office hours:
Posted weekly outside office

Office: Administration Building Room 242
Phone: 617-735-9964
Email: stclair@emmanuel.edu

My training and education were broad, and consequently I have a diversity of interests. Obviously psychology in its many manifestations has absorbed much of my academic and professional energies. Although I no longer actively do clinical work, I am a licensed psychologist with experience doing marriage, family and individual therapy. In my research and writing I have tried to make connections between different fields, whether it is psychology and history (my interest in radical movements, including millenarian movements), interdisciplinary studies (my interest in the First Year Seminar on extreme behavior as well as the Seminar on visual literacy). I continue to find satisfaction in research on personality issues (my book on object relations and self psychology) and their application to trauma and extreme situations. I am currently completing a book on change and its consequences. My work as a classroom teacher is most important to me, and I value my collaboration with students and colleagues in expanding human knowledge and consciousness.

Courses:

PSYCH1500- General Psychology
PSYCH3211 - Theories of Personality
PSYCH4494-4495 - Internship
FYS1101*13 - Image and Seeing in a Visual Age
FYS1101*14 - Passion, Madness and Extreme Behavior

Recent Publications & Professional Activity:

Michael St. Clair. (2003). Object Relations and Self Psychology: An Introduction. With Jodie Wigren. Brooks/Cole, 4th Edition.

Michael St. Clair. (2002). "The Psychologist and Time: Going, Going, Gone." Massachusetts Psychological Association Quarterly, 46. 3, 20-21.

Michael St. Clair. (2000) Object Relations and Self Psychology: An Introduction. Brooks/Cole, 3rd Edition.

Michael St. Clair. (2000). "An Unfortunate Family: Terminal Illness and the Altering of the Attachment Bond (Case Study)." American Journal of Psychotherapy, 34. 512-518.

Michael St. Clair. (1994) Human Relations and the Experience of God: Object Relations and Religion. Paulist Press.

Michael St. Clair. (1992) Millenarian Movements in Historical Context. Garland Publishing.