Mark Forman, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with fifteen years experience working with individuals, couples, children, and families. His text – A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy Complexity, Integration, and Spirituality in Practice – is one of the seminal works in the field of Integral Psychotherapy. He is currently working on his second text, Advancing in Integral Psychotherapy, which is being developed in conjunction with the CIT program.
Dr. Forman has extensive experience teaching Integral Theory at the graduate level – primarily at John F. Kennedy University in Northern California – as well as mentoring therapists and therapists-in-training at other graduate institutions and in private supervision. He is also the co-founder and was three times the lead organizer of the Integral Theory Conference, the world’s largest academic conference devoted to Integral theory and its application. He will be a consultant for the conference in 2015.
Dr. Forman has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and religious studies, graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of Delaware in 1997. He began his career interests in the field of integrative medicine, spending one-year interning at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine under Georgetown professor and psychiatrist James Gordon, MD and eventually attended University of Massachusetts Medical School. Later, while attending the Institute of Tranpersonal Psychology for his doctorate, he was fortunate to be mentored by Dr. Bert Parlee, who is both a licensed psychologist and was then the primary facilitator for Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute. Dr. Forman is a long-term practitioner of yoga, reiki, martial arts, and meditation, beginning these practices in his late teens. He has studied meditation under several prominent teachers, including Gurumayi Chidvilasanda and Kenneth Folk. Over the past two decades, Dr. Forman has trained in a wide variety of therapeutic settings and with a number of different clinical populations. He has had particularly deep personal involvement in Jungian analysis with Alden Josey, Integral Psychotherapy and Hakomi (somatic psychotherapy) with Joe Sousa, sensorimotor and trauma-focused therapy with Janina Fisher, and neo-Jungian dream work with Jeremy Taylor.
Dr. Forman is currently in private practice in San Jose and Marin County, California, with occasional availability in Los Angeles. In addition to seeing children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, he often sees other therapists, coaches, and those exploring deeper psychospiritual growth.
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Here’s my review on Mark’s book that I posted on Goodreads. I found the interview very compelling. I’m still digesting some of the material.
“Once again I was inspired to read this book by hearing the author’s interview on ShrinkRapRadio. To be honest it took me a while to get into this book at first as some of it can be technical. My conclusion after completing this work is that the Integral perspective on psychospiritual development is a very important and perhaps unique framework, that has the capacity to put into context the dizzying array of theoretic approaches that are available to the practitioner. Forman does an excellent job of reviewing the work of Ken Wilber and those who have followed him, laying out a systematic and holistic framework for psychospiritual development which charts the wide variety of cultural and typological differences that this can potentially entail. I was particularly impressed by the range of development that this model allows for, reaching to the aspirational ground of advanced spiritual achievement. I found Forman’s critique of many areas of gender and cultural studies to be apt, provocative at first, and then enlightening. I enjoyed his survey of each developmental stage, as well as his suggestions for the appropriate strategies to address clients who are operating at each stage. I recommend this book to anyone who has achieved a level of competence in one or two schools of psychological or spiritual intervention and craves a framework that allows them to integrate various models in order to help a greater variety of clients, or anyone with curiosity about advanced psychospiritual development.”