Curriculum Vitae
Bio
Garret Wyner, PhD, PhD, PsyD is a philosopher, clinical psychologist, contemporary relational psychoanalyst, and independent scholar of Jewish and Christian mysticism in the spirit of Martin Buber’s, I and Thou. As such, his approach to healing is both multi-disciplinary and psychologically integrative. Suffering from an existential crisis at an early age almost culminating in suicidal despair, Wyner began taking classes in philosophy and psychology to find a reason to live. As a “wounded healer” his interest in “research” has always been practical: On how to become, and help others become, more conscientious, good or loving in a coldly indifferent world. His teaching, speaking, writing, and clinical work in private practice all pivot on this theme of travailing with others to give birth to a truly good or loving “relational home.” Wyner received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Southern California, his PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Santa Barbara, and his PhD in Psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He has a private practice in Studio City, CA and teaches part-time as an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles and is faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
ACADEMIC DEGREES:
Ph.D., New Center for Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, 2019, clinical psychoanalysis
Dissertation: The Unasked Question: Toward Healing Collective Moral Trauma: A Self-Analytical Dialogue
Psy.D., Antioch University Santa Barbara, 2012, clinical psychology
Dissertation: The Wounded Healer: Finding Meaning in Suffering
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1988, philosophy
Dissertation: Toward a Phenomenology of Conscientious Action and a Theory of the Practicality of Reason: Studies in the History of the Problem
M.A., Antioch University Santa Barbara, 2009, clinical psychology
M.A., University of Southern California, 1981, philosophy
B.A., University of Southern California, 1977, philosophy (with honors)
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE & CERTIFICATION:
License in Clinical Psychology, California #27475
Philosophy and Religion Teaching Credential: California Community Colleges
ORGANIZATIONS:
Member, American Psychological Association (APA)
- Division 32: Society for Humanistic Psychology
- Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Member, The New Center for Psychoanalysis
Member, American Psychoanalytic Association (APSAA)
Member, The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis (IARPP)
Member, International Association for Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology (IAPSP)
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS & MEDIA:
Wyner, G. (June, 2022). Paper/Panel Presentation for IARPP 18th Annual Conference. “The unasked question: Toward bridging the chasm that separates us from ourselves and the other.” International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, UCLA.
Wyner, G. (2022). “Spiritual addiction: Searching for love in a coldly indifferent world.” Religions 2022, 13(4),300:https://doi.org/ 10.3390/rel13040300.“
Wyner, G. (September, 2019). “The role of love in psychotherapy & collective human life: Some reflections on Joseph Natterson’s, The loving self.” Panelist: Love in Analytic Therapy. New Center for Psychoanalysis, L.A.
Wyner, G. (July, 2019). Study group facilitator in preparation for Master Clinician-in-Residence Jessica Benjamin, PhD.
Wyner, G. (September, 2018). Panel on CBT & Spirituality in Psychotherapy. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
Wyner, G. (January, 2018). Case Presentation with Supervision by Dr. Donna Orange. New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA.
Wyner, G. (August, 2017). Speaking Engagement at the Wright Institute. “Life after WILA: A professional development panel. WILA, Los Angeles, CA.
Wyner, G. (2016). Seminar Presentation. On Orange, D (2016). Nourishing the inner life of clinicians and humanitarians: The ethical turn in psychoanalysis. New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA.
Wyner, G. (2017). Speaking Engagement at the Wright Institute. “Life after WILA: A professional development panel. WILA, Los Angeles, CA. April, 2016.
Wyner, G. B., & Wyner, J. D. (2016). “You and I. Psycho-spiritual health and the voice of love.” NeuroQuantology 14 (2).
Wyner, G (2015). “Interfaith harmony and the spiritual atheist.” An interview with Garret Wyner by Shahbaz Siddiqui for UnitingFaiths.org. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f4vhr_interview-with-dr-garret-wyner-by-shahbaz-siddiqui_school
Wyner, G (2015). “How spiritual awareness can bring about mental well-being.” An interview with Garret Wyner by Heather Jackson-Laird for Muslims and Mental Health. http://therapycable.com/spirituality-videos/spirituality-and-mental-wellbeing.html
Wyner, G. (2012). “Empathy and the Holocaust: Toward Healing a Collective Existential Crisis.” Abstract accepted but paper not delivered for Midwinter meeting of The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24, APA). Texas, USA.
Wyner, G. (2011). “The Power of Altruistic Love: Toward Healing a Collective Moral Crisis.” C.S. Lewis Oxbridge Summer Institute Paper Presentation. Cambridge University, U.K.
Wyner, G. (2010). “Can Authenticity, Empathy and Compassion be Taught? On Moral Responsibility and Biological Assessments of Criminality and Psychopathy.” APA Amicus Curiae Brief Poster Presentation on Roper v. Simmons (2005). Antioch University Scholars Day Poster Presentation, Santa Barbara, CA.
Wyner, G. (2010). “Trauma and Hope: Healing a Collective Existential Crisis.”118th American Psychological Association Poster Presentation.
Wyner, G. (2009). “The Curtain.” A Case Study. PsyD by PsyD, Antioch University, Santa Barbara News-letter, Vol. 1; Issue 1, p.10; Santa Barbara, CA.
Wyner, G. (2009). “Love’s Gift.” Poem. PsyD by PsyD Antioch University, Santa Barbara Newsletter, Vol. 1; Issue 1, p.9; Santa Barbara, CA.
Rohde-Brown, J., Wyner, G. and Bailey, J. (2008). “Seeds of Forgiveness: Healing a Global Crisis through Self-Transcendence.” Poster Presentation for the 116th American Psychological Association.
Wyner, G. (2008). “Forgiveness & Reconciliation in an Unjust World.” Paper provided in association with 116th APA poster presentation.
Wyner, G. (2007). Fragments: Integration in a Disintegrated World (Revised). Unpublished book manuscript available upon request. Foreword by Dallas Willard.
Wyner G. (2002). “Hope: A Light to All Nations and Peoples: An Invitation to Those Looking for Answers and a Challenge to the Faithful.” Speaking engagement for Jewish High Holy Days Services at the Los Angeles Sports Club.
Wyner, G. (1996). “Hope after the Holocaust.” Paper presentation at the International Symposium for “Ethics After the Holocaust,” University of Oregon.
Wyner, G. (1996). “Existentialism & Psychotherapy: How to Reach Fulfillment through Faith & Hope.” Paper Presentation for the 11th Annual Rabbi Norman F. Feldheym Memorial Lecture, Congregation Emanu-El, San Bernardino, CA.
Wyner, G. (1989). Book Review of J. Phillip Miller’s, Numbers in Presence and Absence: A Study of Husserl’s Philosophy of Mathematics. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague. 1982. International Studies in Philosophy, XXI/1, 1989.
Editorial. Assisted Professor Dallas Willard in the final preparation of the typescript and text of his, Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge: A Study of Husserl’s Early Philosophy. Ohio University Press, 1984.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2022 (Spring): Intersubjectivity: Relational Paradigms. Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis, L.A.
2022 (Spring): Existential/Humanistic Psychology. Associate Professor (Adjunct), Chicago School of Professional Psychology, LA. Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program.
2021 (Spring): Intersubjectivity: Relational Paradigms. Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis, L.A.
2020 (Spring): Intersubjectivity: Relational Paradigms. Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis, L.A.
2020 (Spring): Psychoanalytic Epistemology, Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis, L.A.
2020 (Spring): Existential Humanistic Approaches. Associate Professor (Adjunct), Chicago School of Professional Psychology, LA. Doctoral Program.
2019 (Spring): Intersubjectivity: Relational Paradigms. Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis, L.A.
2018 (Fall): Psychoanalytic Epistemology. Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis, LA.
2014 – Present: Associate Professor (Adjunct), Chicago School of Professional Psychology, LA. Psychotherapy and Spirituality; Existential Humanistic Approaches
1993 – 1997: Instructor, University of Judaism DCE. Courses offered and/or taught: A Jewish “Eye View” of Other Religions; Existentialism and Psychotherapy: How to Reach Human Fulfillment through Faith & Hope; Jewish Responses to Christian Theology; Martin Buber and Authentic Religious Faith; The Jewish Drive for Perfection: A Philosophical Scrutiny; Great Modern Jewish Thinkers: Mordecai Kaplan, Martin Buber and Abraham Heschel; A Lay Person’s Guide to Edmund Husserl, Father of Phenomenology; Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Prophet in His Time; Roots of Reason: Introduction to Philosophy & Religion; Judaism and Existentialism; Kafka; Existentialism: The Search for Meaning in the Modern World; Union with God: Expanding the Meanings of Jewish Faith
1991 – 1992: Spiritual Advisory Committee Aids Project Los Angeles. Workshop on Spirituality and Health (Our House Grief Support Center (Drug Addiction/HIV rehabilitation) Spring, 1992; Workshop on Sex, Personal Intimacy, and the Love of God. Winter, 1991; Workshop on Religion and Human Fulfillment (St. Mary’s Retreat House) June, 1991; Workshop on the Disciplines for a Spiritual Life. Spring, 1991
Winter 1991: Invited Lecturer, Harvard-Westlake School, LA. Workshop on Logic & Ethics
1985 – 1989: Instructor (P/T), California State University Northridge. Reasoning and Critical Thinking; Introductory Logic
1987: Instructor (P/T): University of Southern California. Introduction to Philosophy
1985: Instructor (P/T): Santa Monica College. History of Ethics; Introductory Logic
1985: Instructor (P/T): California State University Los Angeles. Reasoning and Critical Thinking
1984 – 1987: Teaching & Research Assistant (Prof. Dallas Willard and Prof. Kevin Robb), University of Southern California. Elementary Logic; Reasoning and Critical Thinking; Contemporary Moral & Social Issues; History of Western Philosophy; Twentieth Century European Philosophy
CLINICAL TRAINING & EXPERIENCE:
2015 – Present: private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
2013 – 2015: supervised private practice
2012 – 2013: post-doc fellow, Wright Institute Los Angeles
2012 – 2013: pre-doc intern, Wright Institute Los Angeles
2011 – 2012: practicum, Brain Injury Center of Ventura County
2009 – 2010: practicum, Alcohol, Drug & Mental Health Services Santa Barbara
2008 – 2009: practicum: Center for Grief & Loss, Hathaway-Sycamores Child & Family Services Los Angeles
2006 – 2007: crisis counselor: Suicide Prevention Center DiDi Hirsch Community Mental Health Culver City
1991 – 1992: spiritual counselor: Spiritual Advisory Committee Aids Project Los Angeles. Workshop on Spirituality and Health (Our House Grief Support Center (Drug Addiction/HIV rehabilitation) Spring, 1992; Workshop on Sex, Personal Intimacy, and the Love of God. Winter, 1991; Workshop on Religion and Human Fulfillment (St. Mary’s Retreat House) June, 1991; Workshop on the Disciplines for a Spiritual Life. Spring, 1991
1982 – 1985: academic advisor/counselor for international students. University of Southern California
REFERENCES:
VAN DYKE DEGOLIA, MD
Co-Dean of Training
New Center for Psychoanalysis
Assistant Clinical Professor
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
ESTELLE SHANE, PhD
Founding member, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Clinical Faculty, Department of Adult and Child Psychiatry, UCLA
Faculty and Training Analyst, New Center for Psychoanalysis (ICP)
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES and ENDORSEMENTS UPON REQUEST
Endorsement by Professor Dallas Willard (Deceased)
“I have followed [Wyner’s] work for many years, and am convinced that what he has to say is unique, profound, controversial, and of immense relevance to the contemporary situation of Western religious life. He stands at the intersection of the Jewish and Christian religious traditions and provides, from their own deepest spiritual resources, a searching critique and a brilliant illumination of what they have become and what they need to be and can be.
Wyner is one of the deepest scholars of spiritual literature now living, and combines with that knowledge the fruits of his own quest and a burning prophetic insight. Our culture, and especially our religious culture, badly needs to hear what he has to say.”