The John Henry Cardinal Newman Lecture Series
The Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Lectures
2011-2012 Series
Psychology of the Body
An understanding of the human person as a unity of body and soul is something deeply meaningful to Catholics. At the same time, our post-modern culture tends to either over- or under-value the importance of the body for the person and his or her relationships, leaving important questions about the practical and theological approaches to the body unanswered.
The 2011-2012 Blessed Newman lecture series is an interdisciplinary effort at further understanding the human person by paying special attention to the body -- but not exclusively. This series invites an anti-reductionist focus on the body as a window to the psyche or spiritual soul: not reducing all mankind to the person, nor the person to the mind, nor the mind to the body, nor the body to its neurons and behavior. Rather, it offers reflections at these different levels in order to contribute to a robust psychology of the body.
Program
Lectures are held on the first floor of IPS (Classroom II) and begin at 4:30 P.M.
Please join us for wine & cheese at 5:30 P.M.
| September 30 | Greg Kolodziejczak, Psy.D. | Physiological Factors in the Distortions of Love | ||
| October 21 | Fr. John Bartunek, L.C., S.T.D. |
Sanctification of Desire: Contemplating the Eucharistic Body of Christ |
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| November 18 | Fr. James Brent, O.P. | A Sapiential Account of Chastity | ||
| February 3 | G. Alexander Ross, Ph.D. | Bodies in Relationship: A Sociological View | ||
| February 24 | Gerard V. Bradley, J.D. | Privacy: The Body and Law | ||
| March 23 | Craig Steven Titus, Ph.D. | Body and Virtue: Philosophical Psychology of The Body |
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| April 20 | Paul C. Vitz, Ph.D. | A Psychology of the Body: A First Approximation |
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Dr. Greg Kolodziejczak works primarily in private practice in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. In addition, he is involved with the Archdiocese of Boston, working with the diocese’s marriage preparation curriculum committee, as well as with Project Rachel. Dr. Kolodziejczak previously received a Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from MIT and a Masters in Theology from Catholic University. After enrolling at IPS where he received a Master’s and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology, he then accepted an APA-approved internship at the Danielsen Institute in Boston. He completed his postdoc at Two Brattle Center in Cambridge, a clinic that specializes in utilizing psychodynamic approaches and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in working with patients with severe levels of distress. He passed the licensing exam in April, and currently works with Two Brattle Center and in private practice in Cambridge. His almost-800 page dissertation was a synthesis20 of psychology, philosophy, and theology on the issue of love. In January 2008, he was chosen to present on a case at the American Psychoanalytic Conference in New York, with Peter Fonagy and Otto Kernberg, both giants in psychology.
Fr. John Bartunek, L.C., S.T.D., received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. Two years later he entered the religious congregation of the Legionaries of Christ and was ordained in 2003. In addition, he has since received ecclesiastical degrees in philosophy and theology. Fr. John provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller, Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film. He has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on CNN, Fox, and the BBC, and also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican's 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist. Fr. John's most recent book is called The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer. He currently resides in New York, where he is engaged in doctoral research, teaching Ecclesiastical History, and continuing his writing apostolate.
Fr. James Brent, O.P., was born and raised in a Catholic home in the suburbs of Detroit and attended Catholic schools through high school. He studied philosophy in college and found himself increasingly compelled by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, who first introduced him to the Dominicans. More and more, the writings of Dominicans impressed him. When he arrived at graduate school in Detroit, he became involved with a community of Dominican priests. He was impressed by their life of common prayer, study, community, and preaching Christ, so much so that he decided to become a Dominican himself. Although it was at first difficult for him to come to terms with the sacrifices that Dominican life would entail, Fr. Brent says that since becoming a Dominican, he has "known a happiness, a joy, and a peace that is nowhere to be gained from any books of philosophy. For there is a happiness that comes from knowing Jesus Christ. There is a happiness that comes from living out His call. There is a happiness that comes from having a heart consecrated to Him by vows. And it is a happiness so deep and so profound that all the happiness of this world pales by comparison to it."
Dr. Alex Ross currently serves as the Dean of Students at IPS along with teaching courses in social psychology and psychological measurement. He received his Ph.D. at Ohio State University. His principal research interests include the impact of social and cultural change on the family and religious institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at IPS, he held faculty positions in sociology at colleges and universities in Ohio, Michigan, and Florida. He and his wife, Martha, have two daughters and are members of St. John of the Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach,
Florida.
Dr. Gerard V. Bradley graduated from Cornell Law School summa cum laude in 1980 and immediately thereafter served as a trial lawyer in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. He taught law at the University of Illinois for nine years before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 1992. At Notre Dame he teaches courses in constitutional law, religious liberty, and legal ethics. With John Finnis he heads the ND Law School’s Natural Law Institute. Professor Bradley is also a Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Professor Bradley has published over a hundred scholarly articles and authored or edited ten books. He is presently at work on a book about the legal regulation of obscenity in our digitalized world. His most recent books are: Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press) and Essays on Law, Religion, and Morality (University of Scranton Press 2010). He also wrote Religious Liberty in the United States (Heritage Foundation 2008); A Student's Guide to the Study of Law (ISI 2006). He has written for many popular journals, including First Things, National Review, and The Weekly Standard. Professor Bradley has also testified many times before Congressional committees as an expert witness in constitutional law.
Dr. Craig Titus is Associate Professor and Director of Integrative Studies at IPS. His book, Resilience and the Virtue of Fortitude: Aquinas in Dialogue with the Psychosocial Sciences (Catholic University of America Press, 2006), sets up a dialogue between virtue theory and the psychological research on resilience and overcoming difficulty. He has published numerous articles, is co-editor of The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology (CUA Press, 2005) and editor of nine other books. Dr. Titus has worked as Researcher and Instructor at the University of Fribourg, where he served as Vice-Director of the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute for Theology and Culture and Vice-Director of the Servais Pinckaers Archives.
Dr. Paul Vitz, a professor and Senior Scholar at IPS, focuses his teaching and research on the integration of Christian theology, especially Catholic anthropology, with psychology. This requires breaking from the modern secularism and post-modern relativism prevalent today. He is presently focused on the following special topics: The Psychology of Hatred and Forgiveness; The Psychology of the Virtues; The Psychological Importance of Fathers; and the Positive Relevance of Psychology for the Priesthood.
Dr. Vitz's books include: Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship; Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious; Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision; Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism; and The Self: Beyond the Post-modern Crisis. He was Professor of Psychology at New York University for many years prior to joining the faculty at IPS.
There is no charge to attend the Newman Lectures however donations are greatly appreciated. To make reservations, please contact Nancy Flynn at nflynn@ipsciences.edu or 703.416.1441 ext. 127.
Metro: Take the BLUE LINE or the YELLOW LINE and exit at the Crystal City Metro Station. To travel indoors, make a left off the first escalator into the underground tunnel until you arrive at the elevators for 2001 Jefferson Davis Highway. Go to the lobby, look for signs for Newman Lecture. To walk outdoors, come up both Metro escalators, make a right onto Bell Street, walk south one block to 20th Street. Enter at the corner of 20th Street and Jefferson Davis Highway (across from the Crystal City Marriott).
Parking: A number of Crystal City parking garages are free after 4:00pm. Metered parking is available along Jefferson Davis Highway, S. Clark Street and 20th Street.
The Institute for the Psychological Sciences is a Catholic graduate school of psychology offering master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology and a master’s degree in general psychology. IPS’ comprehensive curriculum brings together the study of empirically-proven psychotherapeutic techniques and the study of philosophical and theological sources. This enables our graduates to grasp all the complexities of the human person, including the transcendent and spiritual dimensions. We are training our students to be leaders in the field and to practice as psychologists answering this vocation.
Fr. John Bartunek, L.C., S.T.D., received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. Two years later he entered the religious congregation of the Legionaries of Christ and was ordained in 2003. In addition, he has since received ecclesiastical degrees in philosophy and theology. Fr. John provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller, Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film. He has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on CNN, Fox, and the BBC, and also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican's 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist. Fr. John's most recent book is called The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer. He currently resides in New York, where he is engaged in doctoral research, teaching Ecclesiastical History, and continuing his writing apostolate.
Fr. James Brent, O.P., was born and raised in a Catholic home in the suburbs of Detroit and attended Catholic schools through high school. He studied philosophy in college and found himself increasingly compelled by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, who first introduced him to the Dominicans. More and more, the writings of Dominicans impressed him. When he arrived at graduate school in Detroit, he became involved with a community of Dominican priests. He was impressed by their life of common prayer, study, community, and preaching Christ, so much so that he decided to become a Dominican himself. Although it was at first difficult for him to come to terms with the sacrifices that Dominican life would entail, Fr. Brent says that since becoming a Dominican, he has "known a happiness, a joy, and a peace that is nowhere to be gained from any books of philosophy. For there is a happiness that comes from knowing Jesus Christ. There is a happiness that comes from living out His call. There is a happiness that comes from having a heart consecrated to Him by vows. And it is a happiness so deep and so profound that all the happiness of this world pales by comparison to it."
Dr. Alex Ross currently serves as the Dean of Students at IPS along with teaching courses in social psychology and psychological measurement. He received his Ph.D. at Ohio State University. His principal research interests include the impact of social and cultural change on the family and religious institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at IPS, he held faculty positions in sociology at colleges and universities in Ohio, Michigan, and Florida. He and his wife, Martha, have two daughters and are members of St. John of the Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach,
Florida.
Dr. Gerard V. Bradley graduated from Cornell Law School summa cum laude in 1980 and immediately thereafter served as a trial lawyer in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. He taught law at the University of Illinois for nine years before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 1992. At Notre Dame he teaches courses in constitutional law, religious liberty, and legal ethics. With John Finnis he heads the ND Law School’s Natural Law Institute. Professor Bradley is also a Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Professor Bradley has published over a hundred scholarly articles and authored or edited ten books. He is presently at work on a book about the legal regulation of obscenity in our digitalized world. His most recent books are: Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press) and Essays on Law, Religion, and Morality (University of Scranton Press 2010). He also wrote Religious Liberty in the United States (Heritage Foundation 2008); A Student's Guide to the Study of Law (ISI 2006). He has written for many popular journals, including First Things, National Review, and The Weekly Standard. Professor Bradley has also testified many times before Congressional committees as an expert witness in constitutional law.
Dr. Craig Titus is Associate Professor and Director of Integrative Studies at IPS. His book, Resilience and the Virtue of Fortitude: Aquinas in Dialogue with the Psychosocial Sciences (Catholic University of America Press, 2006), sets up a dialogue between virtue theory and the psychological research on resilience and overcoming difficulty. He has published numerous articles, is co-editor of The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology (CUA Press, 2005) and editor of nine other books. Dr. Titus has worked as Researcher and Instructor at the University of Fribourg, where he served as Vice-Director of the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute for Theology and Culture and Vice-Director of the Servais Pinckaers Archives.
Dr. Paul Vitz, a professor and Senior Scholar at IPS, focuses his teaching and research on the integration of Christian theology, especially Catholic anthropology, with psychology. This requires breaking from the modern secularism and post-modern relativism prevalent today. He is presently focused on the following special topics: The Psychology of Hatred and Forgiveness; The Psychology of the Virtues; The Psychological Importance of Fathers; and the Positive Relevance of Psychology for the Priesthood.
Dr. Vitz's books include: Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship; Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious; Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision; Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism; and The Self: Beyond the Post-modern Crisis. He was Professor of Psychology at New York University for many years prior to joining the faculty at IPS.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
There is no charge to attend the Newman Lectures however donations are greatly appreciated. To make reservations, please contact Nancy Flynn at nflynn@ipsciences.edu or 703.416.1441 ext. 127.
DIRECTIONS TO IPS
Metro: Take the BLUE LINE or the YELLOW LINE and exit at the Crystal City Metro Station. To travel indoors, make a left off the first escalator into the underground tunnel until you arrive at the elevators for 2001 Jefferson Davis Highway. Go to the lobby, look for signs for Newman Lecture. To walk outdoors, come up both Metro escalators, make a right onto Bell Street, walk south one block to 20th Street. Enter at the corner of 20th Street and Jefferson Davis Highway (across from the Crystal City Marriott).
Parking: A number of Crystal City parking garages are free after 4:00pm. Metered parking is available along Jefferson Davis Highway, S. Clark Street and 20th Street.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The Institute for the Psychological Sciences is a Catholic graduate school of psychology offering master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology and a master’s degree in general psychology. IPS’ comprehensive curriculum brings together the study of empirically-proven psychotherapeutic techniques and the study of philosophical and theological sources. This enables our graduates to grasp all the complexities of the human person, including the transcendent and spiritual dimensions. We are training our students to be leaders in the field and to practice as psychologists answering this vocation.