Frank Gruba-McCallister, PhD received his master’s and doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Purdue University. He is currently retired after having taught for over thirty-three years at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology-Chicago, Adler University, and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology-Chicago. He was the recipient of numerous of awards for teaching. He also served in academic administration at all three schools. While the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Adler he oversaw the revision of all degree programs to support the newly adopted mission of the school to educate socially responsible practitioners. This included adding courses to the curriculum and a community service practicum that provided students with knowledge and skills to advance social justice. This innovation was recognized by the Clinical Psychology Doctoral program receiving the 2007 American Psychological Association’s Board of Education Affairs Award for Innovative Practices in Graduate Education in Psychology, a prestigious and highly competitive honor. He also was one of the two developers of a Masters in Police Psychology program which was the only program of its type in the United States. It was designed for uniformed and civilian employees of police departments and other law enforcement agencies and provided them with knowledge and methods in psychology that could be integrated into their work in order to better protect them against the stress and adverse impact of their work, and to provide more effective, sensitive and community-oriented services to the people they serve. Prior to teaching, he provided clinical service primarily to individuals in a medical setting and in private practice.
He has published and done professional presentations in the areas of humanistic/existential psychology, spirituality, critical psychology, and the role of psychology in advancing social justice. He continues his commitment to social justice through writing, advocacy and political activism.
Books
Embracing Disillusionment: Achieving Liberation through the Demystification of Suffering by Frank Gruba-McCallister (published by University Professors Press). PURCHASE HERE.
Selected Publications
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1989). Phenomenological orientation to the interview. In Clinical and diagnostic interviewing. (Robert Craig, Ed.). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1991). Behaviorism and existentialism revisited: Further reflections. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 31, 75-85.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1992). Becoming self through suffering: The Irenaean theodicy and advanced development. Advanced Development, 4, 49-58.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1993). The imp of the reverse: A phenomenology of the unconscious. Journal of Religion and Health, 22, 107-120.
Levington, C., & Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1993). Survival of suicide as an opportunity for transcendence. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 33, 75-88.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P., & Levington, C. (1994). Authenticity as open existence. Advanced Development, 6, 1-10.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P., & Levington, C. (1995). Suffering and transcendence in human experience. Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 22, 99-115.
Levington, C., & Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1996). Suicide and transcendence: Crossing the great divide. In Sacred sorrows: Embracing and transforming depression. (J. Nelson and A. Nelson, Eds.). N.Y. Tarcher.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2002). Education through compassion: The cultivation of the prophetic contemplative. In J. Mills (Ed.), A pedagogy of becoming. New York: Rodopi Press.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2007). Narcissism and the empty self: To have or to be. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 63(2), 182-192.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2013). Entries on oppression, disease, deprivation and egalitarianism. The Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. www.springerreference.com
Selected Presentations
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. & Philpott-Jones, S. (2012, March). Cultivating critical consciousness in future clinicians: Linking individual and collective well-being through service learning (presentation). 5th Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Pittsburgh, PA.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. & Paszkiewicz, W. (2006, May). Educating for liberating: Continuing Adler’s vision for a socially responsible psychology (presentation). Annual Conference of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, Chicago, IL.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2003, February). Existential therapy: Still meaningful after all these years (presentation). Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Chicago, IL.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P., Schwartz, E., & Bockian, N. (1996, November). Meditation: A multifaceted jewel (presentation). Illinois Psychological Association Annual Fall Conference, Rosemont, IL.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. & Schwartz, E. (1992, November). The neuropsychology and phenomenology of the unconscious (presentation). Illinois Psychological Association Annual Fall Conference, Rosemont, IL.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1991, August). Self as process: The problem of the one and the many revisited (symposium). 99th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (1989, April). Growing through suffering (presentation). Annual Midwest Conference of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, Indianapolis, IN.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (May, 1988). Coping with suffering: Challenges for clinician and client (presentation). Chicago Psychological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.