Allan Combs
Allan Combs (born 1942) is an American
Education and academic career
Combs attended Ohio University in the early 1960s, first studying physics and then switching to psychology. During these studies, he overcame impediments due to dyslexia, something he later noted would influence his thinking about psychology.[1]: 178
He then restarted his graduate education in clinical psychology at the
After graduating he taught biology and psychology for a year at
As of 2020 Combs held appointments at the California Institute of Integral Studies,[4] where he built the program in consciousness studies in 2015,[citation needed] and The Graduate Institute in Connecticut.[5] He also was Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.[6]
As of 2020 he had authored over 200 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain.
He is the founder, Academic Advisor, and President Emeritus of The Society for Consciousness Studies,[citation needed] co-founder of The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research[14] and a member of the one-hundred member Club of Budapest.[7] He is the Senior Editor of Consciousness: Ideas and Research for the Twenty First Century,[15] co-editor of the Journal of Conscious Evolution,[16] Associate Editor of Dynamical Psychology.[17]
Combs won the National Teaching Award of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs for 2002/2003 and in the same year held the UNCA Honorary Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship.[4]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781317657248.
- ^ Montuori, A.; Combs, A. & Richards, R. (2004). Creativity, consciousness, and the direction of human development. In D. Loye, (Ed.), The great adventure: Toward a human theory of evolution. Albany, New York: SUNY Press.
- ^ Abraham, F.D. & Gilgen, A.R. (1995). Chaos theory in psychology. Westporet, CT: Praeger.
- ^ a b "Faculty and Staff Directory". California Institute of Integral Studies. 2017.
- ^ "Faculty". Consciousness Studies/ Transpersonal Psychology/ Master's Degree.
- ^ 2017 University of North Carolina at Asheville. "Faculty". University of North Carolina - Asheville.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Campaign for Open Sciences. "Open Sciences - Allan Combs". Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ Laszlo, E.; Artigiani, R. & Csányi, V. (1996). Combs, A. (ed.). Changing visions: Human cognitive maps, past, present and future. London: Adamantine Press; Westport, CT: Praeger.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Laszlo, E. & Combs, A. (2011). Dreamer of the Earth: The Relevance of Thomas Berry, prophetic visionary (1914-2009). Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.
- ^ Krippner, S. & Combs, A. (2007). Chaos, complexity, and the self-organizing brain. In R. Kay and K.A. Richardson (Eds.), Building and sustaining resilience in complex organizations: Pre-proceedings of the 1st international workshop on complexity and organizational resilience first international workshop on complexity and organizational resilience. Mansfield, MA: ISCE Publishing.
- ^ Krippner, S. & Combs, A. (2002). "A systems approach to self-organization in the dreaming brain". Kybernetes. 21: 399–412.
- ISBN 9781557787552.)
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: CS1 maint: location (link - ^ Wilber, K. (2016). Integral Spirituality. Boston, MA: Shambhala.
- ^ The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research Website Admin (2017). "Allan Combs". The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research.
- ^ University of Arizona, Center for Consciousness Studies (2017). "The Science of Consciousness Conference". University of Arizona.
- ^ Saiter, Combs (2017). "Journal of Conscious Evolution". Journal of Conscious Evolution - A Journal of Transdisciplinary Scholarship. Archived from the original on 2017-07-20.
- ^ Hakim, Syahir (2017). "Dynamical Psychology - Editorial Board". Dynamical Psychology.