Guest Lecturer:  Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, PhD

The Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, Ph.D., is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita of Psychology, and Religion, and Dean and Vice President Emerita for Academic Affairs, at Union Theological Seminary, New York.  She also served since 2016 as Assisting Priest at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.  An award-winning author, she has published 10 books, including The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church’s Response (in 2 ed.); Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care & Counseling; and Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective.  Her latest book is The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: How People Are Drawn in and How to Talk Across the Divide (Fortress Press, 2022).  She was the 2013-14 Fulbright-Freud Scholar of Psychoanalysis at the Freud Museum in Vienna; is an Academic Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and was just awarded Honorary Membership in the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP New York).  She serves as President of the International Association for Spiritual Care in Switzerland; on the Board of the Freud Foundation U.S. (Freud Museum Vienna); the editorial Board of the Journal of Pastoral Theology; and the Steering Committee of the Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion.  She lectures frequently in the U.S. and internationally.