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Student Handbook - Argosy University

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Roger Karlsson, PhD<br />

<strong>University</strong> of California, Berkeley<br />

Faculty, Clinical Psychology<br />

Dr. Karlsson became a licensed psychologist in Sweden 1993 and became a member of the<br />

Swedish Psychoanalytic Society in 1998. He had a private practice as a psychoanalyst for many<br />

years before moving to the United States. He gained substantial clinical experience working in<br />

the psychodynamic tradition with patients suffering disorders and low-structured personality<br />

disorders. Later, he received a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at <strong>University</strong> of California,<br />

Berkeley. His research interests are psychotherapy process and outcome studies, attachment<br />

theory, and forensic psychology. His teaching is focused on psychodynamic theory and issues<br />

in forensic psychology. He has a private practice in the South Bay with a focus on forensic<br />

psychology.<br />

Jon Klimo, PhD<br />

Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology<br />

Faculty, Clinical Psychology<br />

Jon Klimo, a graduate of Brown <strong>University</strong> and Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative<br />

Psychology, has taught in doctoral programs for over 35 years, including 8 years at Rutgers<br />

<strong>University</strong> and chairing more than 200 dissertations in the process. He is a Transpersonal<br />

Psychologist, Parapsychologist, and authority on consciousness studies, creativity, and new<br />

paradigm science. At <strong>Argosy</strong> <strong>University</strong>, San Francisco Bay Area, he specializes in qualitative<br />

research methods, especially phenomenological research, teaching a number of the content<br />

courses, advising, and chairing clinical research projects. He has published, given conference<br />

presentations, and conducted original research in a number of new paradigm and transpersonal<br />

areas.<br />

Clifford D. Kusaj, PsyD<br />

Baylor <strong>University</strong><br />

Adjunct Faculty, Forensic Psychology<br />

Dr. Kusaj was a pre-doctoral intern at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC and<br />

post-doctoral fellow in forensic psychology at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, CA. In<br />

addition to his duties as an adjunct faculty member at <strong>Argosy</strong> <strong>University</strong>, San Francisco Bay<br />

Area, Dr. Kusaj is a member of the psychology department at San Quentin State Prison and he<br />

has a private practice where he specializes in clinical and forensic assessment and consultation.<br />

Dr.Kusaj’s areas of interest include criminal competencies, the insanity defense, treatment of<br />

mentally disordered offenders, and forensic-related assessment (e.g., malingering, psychopathy,<br />

violence risk assessment). He has instructed courses in personality and cognitive assessment<br />

at Baylor <strong>University</strong> and he currently teaches Forensic Program Development and Evaluation.<br />

Richard Lichtman, PhD<br />

Yale <strong>University</strong><br />

Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology<br />

Dr. Lichtman has a PhD in philosophy and a Masters degree in psychology. He has taught<br />

History and Systems of Psychology and Social Psychology at <strong>Argosy</strong> <strong>University</strong>. He has also<br />

taught a great variety of courses in his thirty five years at the Wright Institute - Existential<br />

Psychotherapy; Death and Dying; a Critical Look at Object Relations; Political Psychology;<br />

Sexuality, Love and the Body; Phenomenology; Critical Theory; Social Class and Mental Illness;<br />

Psychology and Religion; Studies in Psychoanalysis; the Psychology of Art; etc. He has a very<br />

wide range of interests having taught in philosophy, sociology, political theory, aesthetics,<br />

psychology and the humanities.<br />

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