Frederick Wertz

EDUCATION

• 1973 - BA, Beloit College, Psychology Major
• 1974 - MA in Psychology, Duquesne University
• 1982 - PhD in Psychology, Duquesne University
• Dissertation Title: Dialog with the New Look: An historical critique and a descriptive approach to everyday perceptual process. (Mentor: Amedeo Giorgi)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Research methodology
• Qualitative and mixed methods
• Philosophical foundations of psychology
• Phenomenological and existential psychology
• Psychological theory
• History of psychology
• Humanism
• Psychoanalysis
• Science studies
• Indigenous psychologies

COURSES

• Foundations of Psychology
• Qualitative Research Methods for Psychology
• Psychoanalytic Theories
• Philosophical Foundations of Psychology
• The Freudian Case History
• Supervision and Consultation
• Psychology and Human Values
• Sport Psychology
• Supervision of Psychotherapy Externs

HONORS, ELECTED POSITIONS, AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Distinguished Contributions to Qualitative Inquiry Award, American Psychological Association, Division of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (5), 2019.
• Faculty Award, Alpha Sigma Lambda Honors Society, Fordham University Chapter, 2017.
• Council of Representatives, American Psychological Association (APA), elected by the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (24), APA, 2017-2019 & 2020-2023.
• President, Society for Qualitative Research in Psychology, a section of the Division of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (5), American Psychological Association, 2016-2017.
• The Rollo May Award, for independent and outstanding pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology, by the Society for Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, 2014.
• Section Representative (first), Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology, Executive Board of Division of Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics (5), American Psychological Association, 2013-2015.
• President, Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP), 2011-2014.
• Fellows Chair, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, American Psychological Association (24), 2012-2013.
• Fellow, American Psychological Association, with Fellow status in the Society for Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology (24) and the Society for Humanistic Psychology (32) (since1995) and the Divisions of General Psychology (1) and Evaluation, Statistics and Measurement (5) (since 2013).
• Editor in Chief, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 1993-2010.
• Distinguished Service Award, The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association (24), 2007.
• Outstanding Professor and Mentor Award, Graduate Student Association, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University, 2006
• President, Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, American Psychological Association (24), 1998-1999.
• President, The Society for Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association (32), 1994-1995.
• Phi Beta Phi Honor Society, Fordham University Chapter, since 1988.
• Walter H. Bingham Fellow, Beloit College, 1973. Awarded annually to the outstanding graduating psychology student.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Wertz, F.J. (in press).Objectivity and generality in psychological science: The value of explicating fundamental methods.Qualitative Psychology.
• Kamens, S.R. † & Wertz, F.J. (in press). Chapters 1-8 & 10. In S.R. Kamens (ed.), Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: Urhomelessness and Transcultural Phenomenology. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishing.
• Hu, B.† & Wertz, F,J. (2019). In and out of exile: An integrative phenomenological understanding of Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome. Psychosis, DOI: 10.1080/17522439.1693613. http://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.1693613
• Wertz, F.J. (2018). Qualitative methods as fundamental tools: Autonomy and integration in mixed-methods research. In B. Schiff (Ed.), Situating qualitative methods in psychological science. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishing.
• Wertz, F.J., Desai, M.U.†, Maynard, E.†, Morrissey, M.K.†, Rotter, B.†, & Skoufalos, N.C† (2017). Research methods for person-centered healthcare science: Fordham studies of transcendence and suffering. In M. Englander (Ed.), Phenomenology and the social foundations of psychiatry, pp. 95-120. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Wertz, F.J. (2017). A case of spirituality without belief. InterViews: An Interdisciplinary Journal in Social Sciences, 4(1), 82-88.
• Desai, M.U.†, Wertz, F.J., Davidson, L., Karasz, A. (2017). Regaining good in the world: What matters to persons diagnosed as depressed in primary care. Mental Health in Family Medicine, 13, 381-388.
• Wertz, F.J. (2016). Outline of the relationship among transcendental phenomenology, phenomenological psychology, and the sciences of persons. Schutzian Research: A Yearbook in Lifeworldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Sciences, 8, 139-162.
• Levitt, H. M., Motulsky, S. L., Wertz, F. J., Morrow, S. L., & Ponterotto, J. G. (2016, November 7); Recommendations for designing and reviewing qualitative research in psychology: Promoting methodological integrity. Qualitative Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0000082/
  
• Mattson, M., Wertz, F.J., Fogerty, H., & Zibriskie, B. (Eds.) (2015). Carl Jung in the Academy and Beyond: The Fordham Lectures of 1912. New York: The Spring Press.
• Wertz, F.J. (2015). Phenomenology: Methods, historical development, and applications in psychology. In J. Martin, J. Sugarman, and K. Slaney (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Wertz, F.J. (2015). Jung’s break with Freud revisited: Research method and the character of theory in psychoanalysis. In M. Mattson, F. Wertz, H. Fogerty & B. Zibriskie, B. (Eds.), Carl Jung in the Academy and Beyond: The Fordham Lectures of 1912. New York: The Spring Press.
• Wertz, F.J. & †Olbert, C. (2015). The convergence of Freud’s psychoanalysis and Husserl’s phenomenology on a research approach for human sciences. In R. Brooke, C. Fischer, & L. Laubscher (Eds.), Invitation to psychology as a human science. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.
• Wertz, F.J. (2015). Humanistic psychology and the qualitative research tradition. In K.J. Schneider, J.F. Pierson, & J.F.T. Bugental (Eds.) The handbook of humanistic psychology: Theory, research, and practice. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
• Wertz, F.J., Charmaz, K., McMullen, L., Josselson, R., Anderson, R., McSpadden, E.(2011).Five ways of doing qualitative analysis: Phenomenological psychology, grounded theory, discourse analysis, narrative research, and intuitive inquiry.New York: Guilford Press.
• Wertz, F.J. (2010).The method of eidetic analysis for psychology. In T.F. Cloonan & C. Thiboutot (Eds.), The redirection of psychology: Essays in honor of Amedeo P. Giorgi, pp. 261-278. Montréal, Québec: Le Cercle Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Phénoménologiques (CIRP), l’Université du Québec à Montréal et Rimouski.