Mitchell Ginsberg, Ph.D.

6425 La Jolla Scenic Dr South
La Jolla, CA 92037

Phone: (858) 456-7877
Email: Click here to email me
Website: http://www.jinavamsa.com/
 
 
Practice Description
Areas of interest: couples intimacy, commitment, and sexuality issues, spirituality issues, post-traumatic transformations; cross-cultural issues, family issues, grief, mourning, depression, self-awareness and the search for wholeness.
Additional experience with singular and repeating traumas, miscarriage (infertility and pregnancy issues), aging and dying parents, and Alzheimer's disease; with separation, divorce, depression, and parenting.
Teacher in Thai Buddhist Insight/Mindfulness Practice since 1975; in part, leading residential meditation retreats mostly in USA, GB, and France.
Author of texts in various wisdom-tradition paths, focusing on the relationship between experience, consciousness, and spirituality.
Co-leader of compassionate tantra workshops since 1994.
Long-time cross-cultural marriage (25-plus years, wife, French);
two children, now young adults.
 
   
 
Office Information
Call above telephone number for further information.
 
  Gender: Male

 
 
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Philosophical Psychology, 1967
M.A., Antioch University, Family & Sex Therapy, 1978
M.A., University of Michigan, Philosophy, 1965
 
 
License/Certification in Marriage and Family Therapy *
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California - License # 16305
 
 
Other Licenses/Certifications *
Continuing education in related fields, up to the present.
See also post-doctoral positions and publications listed elsewhere on this form.
 
 
Voluntary Certifications/Awards/Memberships/Publications
Clinical Psychology Internship: Yale Univ.
Former University Teaching Faculty: Yale Univ., Univ. of Michigan, Antioch Univ., etc.
Visiting Scholar: Univ. of Texas (Buddhist Studies), etc.
Post-doctoral Fellowships: Indic Studies, Yale Univ.; Psycho-
linguistics, MIT; Post-traumatic Therapy Research, UCSF, etc.
Current Faculty: Transpersonal Psychology Dept., IUPS.
Books: Mind and Belief: Psychological Ascription and the Concept of Belief (1972);
The Far Shore: Vipassana, The Practice of Insight (1980, 1996, 2001);
The Inner Palace: Mirrors of Psychospirituality in Divine and Sacred Wisdom-Traditions (2002, 2003, 2004; Fourth Edition, 2006).
Life member: American Oriental Society, Association for Humanistic Psychology.
Member: Association for Transpersonal Psychology,
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
American Philosophical Association.
 
 
Languages spoken other than English
French
 
 
Health Plan Participation
Contact office for more information.
 

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