Significant Dates
Born: January 6, 1950 - Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Monastic Profession: July 10, 1976 - Saint Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, PA
Ordination to the Priesthood: April 12, 1980 - Saint Vincent Archabbey
Education
STD, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (1983) Systematic Theology. Dissertation topic: Religious Symbolic Transformations of Desire: A Psychoanalytic and Theological Study of Desire in Religion
PhD, Catholic University of Louvain (1980-1982) Religious Studies, Psychology of Religion
STL, Catholic University of Louvain (1978-1980) Systematic Theology. Thesis topic: Religious Desire in the Thought of Antoine Vergote
MDiv, Saint Vincent Seminary (1976-1978) Theology
MA, Duquesne University (1971-1975) Philosophy. Thesis topic: Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Self
Saint Mary Seminary and University (1971-1973)
BA, Duquesne University (1967-1971) Philosophy
Belgian School of Psychoanalysis, 1980-1982, psychoanalytic training
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, 1982-1985, diploma in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
The American Board for Accreditation and Certification in Psychoanalysis, November 1985, certification in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute, 1985-1994, April, 1994, diploma for the program in the theory and practice of the psychoanalysis of adults
Professional Experience
Fall 2002-present: Director of Counseling, Saint Vincent Seminary; Latrobe, PA
Spring 2002: Director of Spiritual Life, Saint Vincent Seminary
1990-1999: Psychotherapist, Latrobe Psychotherapy Associates
1982-1991: Psychotherapist, Saint Vincent Counseling Center
1982-1985: Psychotherapist, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
1995-present: Faculty, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Foundation and Institute
1993-present: Professor, Saint Vincent College and Seminary; departments of theology, religious studies, philosophy and psychology
1989-2001: Rector, President, Saint Vincent Seminary
1987-1988: Acting Rector, Saint Vincent Seminary
1987-1993: Associate Professor, Saint Vincent College and Seminary; departments of theology, religious studies, philosophy and psychology,
1983-1987: Director of Formation for Junior-professed monks, Saint Vincent Archabbey
1982-1987: Assistant Professor, Saint Vincent College and Seminary; departments of theology, religious studies, philosophy and psychology
1980-1982: Research Assistant, Catholic University of Louvain; Leuven, Belgium
1976-1978: Assistant, Office of Self Study and Institutional Research, Saint Vincent College
1976-1978: Lecturer, Saint Vincent College; departments of religious studies and philosophy
1974-1975: Teacher, Saint Mary of the Mount High School; Pittsburgh, PA
1972-1974: Teacher, Seton High School; Baltimore MD
Broadcasting Experience
1991-1999: Co-host of magazine format television program, Real To Reel, WTAE TV; Pittsburgh, PA
1988-present: Radio program, Insights: Religion From A Psychological Perspective, WEDO AM; McKeesport, PA
1973-1974: Radio announcing and engineering, WBJC-FM, WITH AM & FM; Baltimore, MD
Professional Memberships
American Psychoanalytic Association, (member)
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (member)
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society (member)
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (member)
International Psychoanalytical Association (member)
Books
The Passion of the Lamb, (Servant Publications, 2006)
The Unchanging Heart of the Priesthood (Emmaus Road, 2006)
Articles
“Mystical Desire: An Imaginary Solution or a Symbolic Transformation”, Louvain Studies, ix, Spring, 1982, 61-80.
“The Imaginative Interplay of the Self Image and the Image of God”, New Catholic World, 1350, Nov-Dec, 1982, 249-252.
“The Resonance in Religious Language of the Word Summoning Human Desire to Symbolic Transformation” Bijdragen Tijdschrift Voor Filosophie and Theologie, Spring,1984, 183-205.
“Exodus: Passage In Relationship”, Keeping The Day: A Festschrift Honoring Robert Vogelsang, W. Stubbs, ed., Allison Park: Pickwick, 1985, 31-32.
“The Other Of Desire”, Psychoanalyse, Journal of the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis, no 4, Spring, 1986, 72-79
“The Metaxy Of Desire”. Over De Grens, A Festschrift Honoring Antoine Vergote, Leuven: Louvain University Press, 1987
“Saint Vincent Seminary”. Saint Vincent, A Benedicine Place, Campion P. Gavaler, ed., 1995, 37-40
Book Reviews
W. M. Meissner and C. Slauch, ed., Psyche and Spirit, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, forthcoming 2006
E. Persons, ed., Freud’s Group Psychology, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 72, no 2, April, 2003
A.M. Rizzuto, Why Did Freud Reject God, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 3, July 2002
Herbert Thomas, The Shame Response to Rejection, Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Paul Vitz, Sigmund Freud’s Christian Unconscious, International Review of Psychoanalysis, vol. 16, no. 4, 1989, 510-511
Antoine Vergote, Guilt and Desire: Religious Attitudes and Their Pathological Derivations, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, vol. 38, no. 3, 381-386
Antoine Vergote, The Parental Figures and the Representation of God, Louvain Studies,vol. 9, no. 1, Spring, 1982
A.M. Rizzuto, The Birth of the Living God: A Psychoanalytic Study, Louvain Studies, vol. 8, no 2, Fall 1980
Hans Kung, Freud and the Problem of God, Louvain Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, Fall 1979
Antoine Vergote, Dette Desir, Deux Axes Chreteins et la Derive Pathologique, Louvain Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Spring, 1979
Abstracts
The Psychohistory Review, vols 18-23, 1990-1995, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vols. 60-67, 1991-1998.
American Imago, vols. 50-52, 1993-1995, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vols. 64-68, 1995, 1997, 1999
