Professor of Clinical Psychology

Year Joined RCNJ: 2002

Contact Information

  • Phone: (201) 684-7852 (best to use e-mail)
  • Email: jmorley@ramapo.edu
  • Office: G-201A
  • Office Hours: Usually 11:30-1:30, Tues, Fri

Education:

  • A., Ramapo College of New Jersey
  • A., Duquesne University
  • D. Duquesne University

Convening Group:

  • Psychology (primary)
  • Philosophy (secondary)

 

General Background:听 I did my graduate training in Pittsburgh at Duquesne University in the 1980鈥檚 and held teaching positions in Connecticut, and overseas in India, and England before returning to the States in 2002. I am a native of Allendale, Bergen County, New Jersey and a proud alumnus of Ramapo College (1979).

 

Service to the College: I have served as a member of the Faculty Assembly Executive Council, faculty Vice President (2007-2008) and Faculty Assembly President (2009-2011). I was co-founder of Ramapo鈥檚 India Study Abroad Program (2003-2010), founding director of Ramapo鈥檚 Mindfulness Center (2014-2017) and Faculty Liaison for the construction of the Padovano Faculty Commons (2011-2019).

 

External activities and research engagements:听 Since 2014 I have served as the editor-in-chief of the听Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, am the recent past president of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP) and I serve on various editorial review boards. I specialize in the philosophical psychology of the French philosopher听 Maurice Merleau-Ponty and other continental thinkers but also have broad interdisciplinary and eclectic interests. My research publications apply continental thought to qualitative research methodology and more specifically to topics such as: trauma (personal and collective), social theory, imagination, and Asian thought.听 My edited books and various publications can be found in these links:听 Academia.edu:听听

ResearchGate:听

The Journal of Phenomenological Psychology:

 

Teaching Activities:听听 I teach Abnormal Psychology every semester and cyclically teach the following:听 History of Social Thought, Psychology of Yoga, Developmental Psychology, Adult (geriatric) fieldwork, Existentialism, and a senior capstone course in Phenomenological Psychology. Outside of Ramapo, I also teach graduate seminars in phenomenological research methodology to doctoral students in various research institutions and occasionally serve on doctoral dissertation committees in the States and overseas.听

Recent Publications:听

Contributions to books:

听2018听 听(Co-authored with Amedeo Giorgi) The descriptive phenomenological method in psychology,听听听听The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, NY: Sage Press.听

2011听听听 鈥淧henomenological psychology鈥� in S. Luft and S. Overgaard.听The Routledge companion to phenomenology. NY: Routledge Press

2010听 听听鈥淚t鈥檚 always about the听别辫辞肠丑别鈥�:听on phenomenological methodology.鈥澨�The redirection of Psychology: essays in honor of Amedeo Giorgi. Montreal: University of Quebec Press.

鈥淓mbodied consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty.鈥� Reprinted in R. Kearney & E. Rizo-Patron (eds.)听Traversing the heart: Journeys of the inter-religious imagination.听 Leiden: Brill.


Articles in journals:

2022听听听听听 (co-authored with Scott Churchill and Christopher Aanstoos) 鈥淭he emergence of phenomenological psychology in the United States.鈥澨�Journal of Phenomenological Psychology.听Vol. 52.2

2021听听听听听鈥�Bitbol鈥檚 Radical Renewal of the Neurophenomenology Project鈥澨�Constructivist Foundations. Vol 16, 2, 151-153.听听听

2021听听听听听听听听(co-authored with Magnus Englander) 鈥淧henomenological Psychology and Qualitative Research鈥澨�Phenomenology and Cognitive Science.听

2019听听听 听鈥�Commentary on Applied Phenomenology.鈥澨�International Journal of Nursing Studies听93,163鈥�167

2014 鈥淎 Phenomenologist responds to Allan Waterman鈥澨�American Psychologist, (January).

 

Book reviews:

2018听听听听听听听听听听Kearney, Richard and Treanor Brian (2015), Carnal Hermeneutics. New York: Fordham University Press.听 For听The Humanistic Psychologist.听Vol. 46.听 No 3.听 287-293.

2011听听听听听听听听听 Wertz, F.J., Charmaz, K., McMullen, L., Josselson, R., Anderson, R., McSpadden, E. (2011). Five ways of doing qualitative analysis: Phenomenological psychology, grounded theory, discourse analysis, narrative research, and intuitive inquiry. New York: Guilford Press.听 For听the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. vol. 42 (2).

Recent Speaking Invitations:听听听

Invited speaker,听Merleau-Ponty and pathologies of the imagination. Phenomenology Graduate Workshop, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Japan.

Keynote Speaker,听听Phenomenology, mindfulness and the crisis of our times.听听 International Conference on Innovative Philosophy and Law.听 Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. December 2023.

听听听 听听听also:

Speaker听听听Teaching and learning phenomenology across the disciplines. for the international blog series on Phenomenology and psychiatry PHENOLAB. Heidelberg, Germany. December 2022.听听

Instructor for 3-day graduate seminar on Phenomenological psychological qualitative methodology, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2022

Keynote speaker.听Lucidity: meditation and the phenomenology of daydreaming鈥� Conference on Phenomenology and Mindfulness.听 University of Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus. May 2-4, 2022.

Panelist: Ecological hospitality panel discussion. Symposium on Phenomenology and the voice of the Earth. Guestbook Project.听听 Boston College Department of Philosophy, April 2022.

On Phenomenological Psychology, Philosophie Psychologie Podcast Digitales Kolloquium, Heidelberg, Germany. August 14, 2021.听听

Keynote:听The idea of phenomenological Psychology: history and prospectus.听First Person Science of Consciousness. Witten Herdecke University, Germany May 6-7, 2021.

Three-day PhD course on Descriptive Phenomenological Methodology, University of Copenhagen, Department of Psychology, October, 2019

Mind and Life Europe annual conference, Munich, Germany.听 Conducted three presentations:听Philosophy and methodology听panelist, Knowledge as resonance panelist,听Buddhism, psychoanalysis and phenomenology as 1st person research methodologies听panelist.听 October 2019.

Public discussion听on the role of the methodological epoche鈥� in phenomenological psychology, with Dan Zahavi, the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. April 2019.

Three-day graduate symposium on first person methodologies, Presentation听on descriptive phenomenological methodology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. April 2019.

Lecture presentation听on the Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method, British Psychological Society, London England. April 2019.

Instructor, 5-day contemplative phenomenology research retreat 鈥� hosted by Mind and Life Europe.听 Nemours, France.听 May 2019.

Public Interviews:

听Interview: 鈥淧henomenology and Meditation.鈥� Hosted by Hilary Murray鈥檚 Stepping Stones radio program on WDRV Radio. July 2017.听听

Interview: 鈥淧henomenology as Pedagogy: Enlivening Classrooms and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.鈥澨� National Learning and Teaching Forum February 2014 edition.听

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