Amy Taylor, Ph.D.
Ruthellen Josselson Chair in Qualitative Inquiry |Director of the Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies | Fielding Graduate University
Santa Barbara, CA, UNITED STATES
Biography
Amy Taylor, PhD is a core faculty member in the Clinical Psychology program and a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She received her PhD and additional training in interpretive and qualitative research and gender studies from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, before completing postdoctoral psychoanalytic training at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr. Taylor’s clinical, research, and scholarly interests include the intersection of gender, sexuality, and technology and how the social world shapes our lived and felt embodied experiences.
Industry Expertise (3)
Mental Health Care
Research
Education/Learning
Areas of Expertise (5)
Phenomenology
Qualitative Inquiry
Qualitative Research
Psychoanalysis
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Accomplishments (2)
Division 39 Scholars Award, Section VIII: Psychoanalysis and Couple and Family Therapy, (professional)
2015-2016
National Register of Health Service Psychologists Credentialing Scholarship (professional)
2012
Education (3)
Duquesne University: PhD, Clinical Psychology 2012
Duquesne University: MA, Duquesne University 2008
St. John's College: BA, Liberal Arts/Great Books 2005
Affiliations (7)
- Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)
- Center for the Study of Group & Social Systems (CSGSS) - Boston division of The A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems® (AKRI)
- Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England
- American Psychological Association : Member. Divisions 5, 24, 32, 39
- Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology
- American Academy of Psychotherapists
- China American Psychoanalytic Alliance
Links (2)
Event Appearances (6)
Graduate student and faculty experiences during the pandemic
(2022) International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Virtual
Generational Transition in Psychoanalysis
(2022) American Psychological Association Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Spring Meeting
Methodological Agility and Community Building During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2022) American Psychological Association Division 24 (Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology) Midwinter Meeting
The Unsayable of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Lags, Losses, and Liminality
(2022) American Psychological Association Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Spring Meeting
“It was transcendent”: Virtual embodiment, sex, and sexualities in the Black Mirror episode, Striking Vipers
(2019) Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society Conference Rutgers, NJ
Reimagining the sexual body: Sex in a time of physical distancing
(2020) LGBTQ Study Group William Alanson White Institute
Articles (4)
Being Through Love: The Collaborative Construction of a Sexual Body
The New Philosophies of Sex and Love: Thinking Through Desire
2016
Reframing the humanistic critique of technology and a discussion of online embodiment
Janus Head
2011
Thematic Apperception Test: A performance-based assessment technique
Personality Assessment
2014
Review of the book Conversation Analysis in Psychotherapy
Qualitative Research in Psychology
2010
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