Position
Academic Background
Sample Courses
Teaching Philosophy
Research & Interests
Notable Academic Appointments & Awards
Publication Highlights
Selected Scholarly Presentations

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Position          

• Vice President for Mission and Ministry   
• Assistant Professor of Psychology   
• Counseling Psychologist, The Personal Counseling Center 
• Graduate Faculty           

Academic Background      

• Boston University - Post-Doctoral Study in Clinical Psychology
• Harvard University - Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology
• Harvard University - Ed.M. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology
• Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception - S.T.L. in Theology
• Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception - M.Div., S.T.B. in Theology
• Brown University - A.B. in History

Sample Courses Taught at Providence College   

• Introduction to Psychology
• Psychology of Abnormal Behavior
• Theories of Psychotherapy
• Special Topics in Psychology: Psychology of Religion
• Special Topics in Psychology: Freud and His Critics
• Psychology in Human Services

Teaching Philosophy       

I understand my work at Providence College and my teaching in particular to be a matter of bridging divides.

One span of this bridge reaches across the traditional divide in psychology between science and practice. Being both a teacher and a clinician I have had to master two tongues and navigate two cultures, and though this has been challenging at times, I believe that my teaching and clinical work are both better for it. My clinical work serves as a kind of in vivo research that enriches my teaching and my students' experience, and the discipline of study and class preparation has sharpened my clinical knowledge and understanding.

A second span is across disciplines and between communities. By background, I am prone to find the commonalities in diverse fields of knowledge and use my teaching to suggest where they may be found and how they matter. By conviction, I am interested in speaking and writing to different people, in different contexts and media, and to bringing psychology into dialogue with communities of discourse from which it is often estranged.

The third and most important divide is between faith and reason. As a priest and a psychologist I am well aware that in the academy faith and reason are often regarded as incompatible or as marginally relevant to each other. Indeed, many have advised me that the attempt to maintain the dual citizenship that priesthood and psychology are presumed to represent will only result in the betrayal of one or the other. Yet the authentic Dominican intellectual tradition argues that faith and reason are necessarily coordinate and mutually enriching, and requires that each be respected for the integrity and probity that they share. It is this conviction that motivates what I do in the classroom and on behalf of students generally. As St. Anselm would have it, faith necessarily seeks understanding, and as the late Bernard Lonergan, S.J. noted, in God reason finds the object of its striving.

Research & Interests               

My scholarly interests at present include 1) the psychology of religion and religious experience, 2) the process of psychotherapy and spiritual direction, especially with college students and young adults, 3) psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches to religion and psychotherapy, and 4) issues of trauma and attachment in the etiology of disorders and as they affect psychotherapy. More broadly, I am interested in religious and spiritual (auto)biography, the sexual abuse crisis in the Church, and contemplative practice and experience.

Notable Academic Appointments and Awards

• Post-Doctoral Fellow in Psychology, The Albert V. Danielsen Institute at Boston University, 1994-1996
• Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1989-1992
• Research Associate, Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Harvard University, 1995-1997

Publication Highlights

• Guido, J.J. (2005). Dark humors and soldier's heart: Understanding depression and its remedies. [Review of the book The Age of Melancholy by Dan Blazer]. PsycCritigues: APA Review of Books, 50 (30).
• Guido, J.J. (2005). Doing what therapists do: The art and science of the clinical interview [Review of the book Clinical and Diagnostic Interviewing]. PsyCritiques: APA Review of Books, 50 (11).
• Guido, J.J. (2004). On the couch and at the altar: Contemporary psychoanalysis and religion [Review of the book Minding Spirituality]. PsycCritiques: APA Review of Books, 49 (2).
• Guido, J.J. (2003). Factors other than celibacy and homosexuality foster child sexual abuse by priests. In L. Gerdes (Ed.), Child Abuse: Opposing Viewpoints (3rd edition). San Diego, CA: Greenhaven/Thomson-Gale.
• Guido, J.J. (2002). The importance of perspective: Understanding the sexual abuse of children by priests. America, 186 (11), 21-23.
• Guido, J.J. (2001). College students and conversion: The sacramental context of
   Catholic higher education. America, 184 (3), 13-18.
• Guido, J.J. (1999). Beyond broken promises: Healing the wounds of sexual assault on campus. America, 181 (8), 12-15.
• Guido, J.J. (1997). Schooling the soul: A psychological perspective on the implicit theology of Roman Catholic candidates for ministry. Toronto: Regis College.

Selected Scholarly Presentations and Activities

• Guido, J.J. (2004, January). Alter Christus: The theology and psychology of the Roman Catholic priest and his role in the Church. Paper presented at the "Clergy Sexual Abuse: Models of Assessment and Treatment" conference at Boston College sponsored by the Office of Pastoral Support and Outreach, Archdiocese of Boston, the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College, and the Church in the 21st Century Project at Boston College.
• Guido, J.J. (2003, May). Circles of truth and survival: Clinical implications of college students' coping with peer suicide. Paper presented at the "Moments of Truth: Critical Issues in University Counseling Centers" conference at the University of Rhode Island. Kingston, RI.
• Guido, J.J. (1998, October). The psychology of religious coping. Paper presented at the
   meeting of the New England Psychological Association. Providence, RI.
• Guido, J.J. "Sins of the Fathers: Understanding and Responding to Sexual Abuse by Clergy". 38th Annual Diocesan Religious Education Conference and Workshop. Diocese of Providence. March 2003
• Guido, J.J. "Psychoanalytic Perspectives on College Student Psychotherapy: Response to a Paper by Lorraine Siggins, M.D." Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies and Brown University Psychological Services. May 2002.
• Gallivan, K, Guido, J.J. (Chair), McDargh, J. & Wulff, D. "Psychology and Religion: Inquiry, Convergence, and Dialogue". Invited Symposium at the 38th Annual Meeting of the New England Psychological Association. October 1998.

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