Robert W. Godwin, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist
and independent scholar, with subspecialties in forensic,
psychoanalytic and transpersonal psychology. A contributing
editor to the Journal of Psychohistory and a past member of the
editorial advisory board of the Journal of Melanie Klein and
Object Relations, he has published some two dozen articles in
scholarly journals, covering a wide range of topics. Much of his
work has been interdisciplinary in nature, helping to forge a
dialogue between apparently divergent fields.
His 1991 monograph, "Wilfred Bion and David Bohm: Toward a
Quantum Metapsychology," explores the relationship between the
order of the universe and that of the mind, demonstrating the
theoretical similarity between cutting-edge theories in physics
and developmental psychology. Similarly, "Psychoanalysis, Chaos,
and Complexity: The Evolving Mind as a Dissipative Structure"
explains how the field of developmental psychoanalysis might
relate to what has become known as the "grand evolutionary
synthesis" in science, showing the mind to be an evolving,
self-organizing system with the same underlying structure as any
dynamic, open system.
Dr. Godwin has published many articles applying the insights
of modern psychoanalysis and attachment theory to history,
politics, and culture. His most recent contribution in this vein
was "The Land that Developmental Time Forgot," a timely
psychological analysis of the phenomenon of radical Islamic
terror.
His book One Cosmos Under God is the fruit of a
lifetime of thought attempting to synthesize material from a
number of diverse domains, including cosmology, theoretical
biology, quantum physics, developmental psychoanalysis,
attachment theory, anthropology, history, mysticism and
theology, into a coherent, self-consistent, non-reductionistic
whole.
Dr. Godwin is married and lives in Calabasas, California,
where he is in private practice, specializing in the treatment
of psychological barriers to spiritual growth.
selected books
One Cosmos Under God: The Unification of Matter, Life,
Paragon House Publishers (December 2004)
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other related websites
Robert Godwin's Blog
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/
