Steven R. Kubacki, PhD
Steven R Kubacki, PhD, is a believer in praxis, the old Greek word that denotes the making real of ideas and imagination through some form of action. He is not merely interested in the frontiers of knowledge but engages in activities and adventures—physical and cerebral—to expand the boundaries of the possible. In his life’s work, he views himself as an applied philosopher or “Nexalist,” that is, a person who integrates knowledge and know-how across diverse domains in the sciences and humanities, so constructive ideas and theories to affect individual change and systemic transformation can be developed. These domains include psychology, economics, governance, sociology, anthropology, spirituality, literature, history, general philosophy, philosophy of science, and modern critical theory.
Steve grew up in South Deerfield, MA, in a lower middle class family, where his father worked in a tire factory and mother was a secretary at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1972 as a day-student, where he would spend many hours in its college-like library cutting classes and rebelling. From Hope College in 1979, he received a BA in German Studies—a default major because he just had enough credits after having switched majors a dozen times or so. In 1983, he earned a MA in Linguistics/TOEFL (Ohio University). However, he found linguistics a bit too academic and yearned for more intense human-to-human interactions, subsequently enrolling in a PhD Clinical Psychology program at the University of New Mexico. During his stay there, he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at Frankfurt University in Germany, where he studied under Dr. Rohde-Dachser and Juergen Habermas.
Chronology
1954
Birth
1954-1959
Lived in Chicopee, MA
1960-1972
Lived in South Deerfield, MA
1968-1972
Deerfield Academy Preparatory School
1972-74, 75-78
Hope College, Holland, MI
1974-1975
Freiburg University, Germany
February 19, 1978
Disappearance on Lake Michigan
1978-1979
May 5, 1979
Reappears in Massachusetts
1979
Finishes German Studies BA from Hope College at the University of Massachusetts
1981-1982
German Graduate School University of Massachusetts
1982-1985
Ohio University MA Linguistics/TESOL
1983-1984
Teaches Officers of the Saudi Arabian National Guard
1985
MA Thesis on Metaphors and Critical Thinking
1985-1990
Clinical Psychology PhD University of New Mexico
1987-1988
Fulbright Hayes Scholar University of Frankfurt, Germany; Departments of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
1990-1992
Dartmouth Medical School Clinical Psychology Internship
1992
PhD Dissertation: Comparing Values and Methods in Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapies
1992-1998
Professor at University of Wyoming, Laramie
1998-2001
Argosy School of Professional Psychology; Director of Clinical Training
2001-2004
Bastyr University; Chair Department of Psychology
2005-Present
Full-Time Private Clinical Practice and Writer
After finishing a 2-year internship at Dartmouth Medical School in 1992, he became a professor at the University of Wyoming and while there was awarded a Fellowship by the American Psychoanalytic Association. In 1998, he became the Director of Clinical Training at Argosy University-Seattle. Later he served as Chair of the Department of Psychology at Bastyr University until 2003. He currently maintains a small clinical practice, hikes, and is writing other books that he hopes will contribute to making the world a better place.
Dr. Kubacki currently has two books available for purchase.