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Ian J. Grand, Program Director of the Somatic
Psychology concentration, received his M.A.
(1984) in Clinical Psychology from Antioch
University and his Ph.D. in Social and Cultural
Psychology from the Union Institute. He
has taught at various colleges in the Bay
Area and was director of the Center for
Educational Alternatives at San Francisco
State University. Ian is director of the
Social Somatics Research Project, where
he explores the relationship between social
forms and physiological function. In his
research he studies how literature, music,
art, and the media affect cultural- and
self-enactment. He is interested in the
somatic aspects of interpersonal and intercultural
relations, and is developing somatic contributions
to psychodynamic theory. Ian is co-editor
with Don Hanlon Johnson of The Body in
Psychotherapy: Inquires in Somatic Psychology.
His doctoral research examines collaborative
creativity.
Ian is also is a painter, musician, and
philosopher. He has been a leader in experimental
education since the 1960s when he was one
of the first directors of the Experimental
College at San Francisco State.
Somatic
Psychology Program
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