I have a degree in psychology, among others, and the first thing you learn is that most people who reach the career level in this field, do it to work on their own issues as they are screwed up. I could have written excellent papers about the psychological instability of most of the psychology department, including the chairwoman, but their aversion to self reflect and grow would have created even more tension than I already did. They hated me as their student and asked me to leave! I didn't though, I just took more of their classes. (Helped me overcome my dominant mother issue.. LOL)
Here is a cut & past from his facebook! Please read the next to the last line.... it explains it all... and his not understanding committment. And to think, this guy is teaching our children!
Jeremy Sherman is a generalist, enjoying serious middle-age spread as a professor of social sciences, spreadingly defined to include psychology, sociology, evolutionary theory, history, rhetoric, philosophy, critical thinking and economics, lecturing 30 hours a week at Expression College for Digital Arts, in Emeryville Ca; as a chief researcher in Berkeley’s Consortium on Emergent Dynamics (www.teleodynamics.com), where he researches the physical origins of purposive systems, (how matter becomes mattering), the relationship between energy and information, and the nature of physical and mental work; and as author of a weekly column and podcast on everyday decisionmaking at www.mindreadersdictionary.com. He writes romanticynical songs, and plays upright and seven string bass and sings in jazz combos at cafes and restaurants three nights a week. Married once with three children (28, 24,18), fianced thrice since his divorce, Jeremy is now partnered with a fellow ambigamist with whom he enjoys among many things singing and playing romantic jazz standards at cafes around the San Franscisco bay area. Jeremy has a Masters in Public Policy from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in evolutionary epistemology from Union University.
His PT blog is Ambigamy. (read less)
Jeremy Sherman is a generalist, enjoying serious middle-age spread as a professor of social sciences, spreadingly defined to include psychology, sociology, evolutionary theory, history, rhetoric, philosophy, critical thinking and economics, lecturing 30 hours a week at Expression College for Digital Arts, in Emeryville Ca; as a chief researcher in Berkeley’s Consortium on Emergent Dynamics (www.teleodynamics.com), where he researches the physical origins of purposive systems, (how matter... (read more)Personal Interests:Jamming on the Bass
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