E. Mark Stern

Who is E. Mark Stern?

E. Mark Stern is a humanistic/existential psychologist who holds an Master of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University and a Doctor of Education degree from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Training Institute of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Stern served for many years from Associate Professor to Full Professor and finally Professor Emeritus of Pastoral and Family Counseling in the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Iona College, New Rochelle. He was at various times Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, Fordham University in New York, and the Australian Catholic University. He was also a Fellow and Faculty Member of the American Institute of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in New York City as well as the Training Institute for Mental Health Practitioners, also in New York. In later years, he was a guest instructor at the Lifetime Learning Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Stern served as Editor of the Journal of Pastoral Counseling, Voices: the Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists and was founding Editor of the Psychotherapy Patient published by the Haworth Press. He was also coauthor of Psychotheology, published by the Paulist Press; editor of The Other Side of the Couch" What Therapist Believe, published by Pilgrim Press and other books and articles in psychology and psychoanalytic periodicals as well as chapters in anthologies.