Sanford Drob, Ph.D.
Professor Emerit - Clinical Psychology | Fielding Graduate University
Brooklyn, NY, UNITED STATES
Philosopher & Forensic Psychologist
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Biography
Sanford L. Drob is a core faculty member in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. He served for many years as the Director of Psychological Assessment and Senior Forensic Psychologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York. He holds doctorates in philosophy and clinical psychology and has published numerous professional papers in clinical psychology, forensic psychology, and the philosophy of psychology. He is the author of four books on the interface between Jewish Mysticism, theology, psychology and philosophy, including Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialog (Peter Lang, 2009); and Kabbalistic Visions: C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism (Spring Journal Books, 2010). In addition, his Reading the Red Book: A Thematic Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus was published by Spring Journal Books in 2012. He is also a narrative painter whose work traverses religious, philosophical and psychological themes. He operates several websites, including www.newkabbalah.com and www.sanforddrobart.com.
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Psychological Assessment
Forensic Psychology
Philosophy of Psychology
History and Systems of Psychology
Psychology and Religion
Mysticism and Psychology
Humanistic/Existential Psychology
Dissociation and Hysteria
Jungian Thought
Education (3)
Long Island University: PhD, Clinical Psychology 1987
Bellevue Hospital, New York Medical Center: Internship, Psychology 1983
Boston University: PhD, Philosophy 1981
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- American Psychological Association : Member
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Values: The Foundations for Negotiating Digital Citizenship
The Huffington Post online
2014-10-02
Sanford Drob argues that values are a universal part of being human and that axiology (the study or philosophy of value) is intricately linked with psychology because of the central concern with human motivation, development and welfare ...
'I didn't do that murder': TH-R investigation raises questions about 1989 conviction
Times Herald Record online
2008-01-13
To explain the videotaped statement and the conflicting stories Lebrew gave police, Beecher relied on psychologist Sanford Drob, who testified that Lebrew, who had an IQ of 66, was highly suggestible, obedient and eager to please authority figures...
Articles (4)
Jung, Kirsch, and Judaism: Mystical and Paradoxical Transformations
Jung Journal
(2012) In this article, the author explores several themes that emerge from the correspondence between CG Jung and his Jewish disciple, James Kirsch, focusing on their discussions of Jung's purported anti-Semitism, and their exchanges on the Lurianic ...
Kabbalah, Jungian Psychology, and the Challenge of Contemporary Atheism
Psychological Perspectives
(2012) The major symbols of the Lurianic Kabbalah are examined from both theological and psychological points of view. It is argued that these symbols, including Ein-sof (the infinite), Ayin (divine nothingness), Tzimtzum (divine concealment/contraction), Sefirot (value ...
Clinical and conceptual problems in the attribution of malingering in forensic evaluations
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
(2009) The authors review clinical and conceptual errors that contribute to false attributions of malingering in forensic evaluations. Unlike the mental disorders, malingering is not defined by a set of (relatively) enduring symptoms or traits; rather, it is an intentional, ...
Fragmentation in contemporary psychology: A dialectical solution
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
(2003) The author proposes a dialectical/realist solution to the problem of multiple paradigms in psychology. Specifically, he argues that theoretical models in psychology are akin to various two-dimensional maps of the three-dimensional, spherical earth. In ...
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