David Goodman

David Goodman is passionate about developing creative spaces for bringing together fields that seek to address human identity, suffering, and potential. Whether through conference building, interdisciplinary scholarship, curriculum development, or in his courses, Goodman commits himself to impacting the very language we employ while making sense of and responding to the Other.

As an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Lynch School’s Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology department and Morrissey College's Philosophy department, Goodman consistently attempts to bridge worlds and invite dialogue. One example of this is the Psychology and the Other initiative that Goodman directs, which generates engagement between clinicians, academics, and activists across various disciplines and practices. This is accomplished through conferences, events, a book series, and professional development offerings. Furthermore, Goodman remains highly active in research and has more than a dozen books and edited volumes to his name in the last 10 years.

Goodman is also Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and External Relations at the Lynch School. In this role, he oversees the development of new programs and coordinates outward facing activities including professional development offerings, several scholars’ programs, alumni relations, and community partnerships. Goodman has an abiding commitment to the Lynch School mission of enhancing the human condition, expanding human imagination, and developing more sustained means of deepening ethical responsibility at the individual, communal, and disciplinary levels.

Lastly, Goodman is an active clinician with a small private practice in Cambridge, MA.

EDUCATION

• B.A., Azusa Pacific University
• M.A. in Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary
• M.A. in Counseling, Fuller Theological Seminary
• Ph.D., Fuller Graduate School of Psychology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Clinical discourse about psychopathology and trauma; Distribution of intervention models along the lines of economic class; Psychoanalytic Theory; Existential/ Phenomenological Psychology; Constructs of Self (formation and socio-political context); Ethics and morality; Theories of subjectivity (intersubjectivity); Critical psychology; Religious/Spiritual Discourse; Levinas studies

EXPERTISE

• Cognitive and Social Development
• Formative and Whole Person Education
• Health and Well Being
• Social & Emotional Development

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Goodman, D., & Clemente, M. (2021). Who is My Neighbor? Ethical Distances and Technological Spaces. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12626.

Goodman, D., Goodman, K., & Shieh, S. (2021). The Cost of Certainty. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 22(1), 1-3. DOI: 10.1080/15240657.2021.1883842

Goodman, D., Severson, E., & Macdonald, H. (2020). Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology and the Perils of Individualism. New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.

Goodman, D., & Collins, A. (2019). The Streaming Self: Liberal Subjectivity, Technology, and Unlinking. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 39, 147-156.

Goodman, D., & Severson, E. (2019). Levinas on Psychology, Identity, and Care for Others. In M. Morgan’s (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Levinas. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190455934.013.43

Goodman, D. & Severson, E. (Eds.). (2016). The Ethical Turn: Otherness and Subjectivity in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.

Goodman, D. & Freeman, M. (Eds). (2015). Psychology and the Other. New York: Oxford University Press. Goodman, D. (2015). The McDonaldization of psychotherapy: Processed foods, processed therapies, and economic class. Theory & Psychology, 26(1), 77-95. DOI: 10.1177/0959354315619708.

Goodman, D. (2012). The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identity in Psychology. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.

SELECT APPOINTMENTS & AWARDS

• President-Elect, American Psychological Association's Division 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology)
• Associate Professor of the Practice, Philosophy department (Morrissey College of Arts and Science)