John Suler
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| Born | January 17, 1955 |
| Residence | United States |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Field | Psychologist |
| Institutions | Rider University |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Known for | Cyberpsychology |
Dr. John Suler is a Professor in Psychology at Rider University. He received his bachelors degree in psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977, where he studied in the hard core behavioral psychology department, while also taking philosophy courses on Freud, existentialism, and thanatology. He was valedectorian of his class at Stony Brook. Dr. Suler received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1982, where he benefited from mentors such as Ed Katkin, Joe Masling, Murray Levine, and Arlene Burrows.
Dr. Suler learned that being both a clinician and scientist indeed is possible. After leaving Buffalo, he did a year internship in the Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Connecticut. From there he moved on to Rider University's Psychology Department, while also continuing post-graduate psychotherapy training for 12 years in a clinical group led by Nancy McWilliams, a highly regarded psychoanalytic psychologist. Dr. Suler also had the worked with Lloyd Silverman on the use of imagery techniques in psychotherapy.
Over the years, Dr. Suler's professional and academic work has progressed through several stages. Starting in graduate school, he did quite a bit of research on mental imagery and creativity. As a practicing psychotherapist, he was especially interested in the application of these topics to clinical work. Mental imagery and creativity both involve distinctly non-verbal and "non-rational" processes, which partially explains why Dr. Suler later became intrigued by the relationship between eastern philosophy and western psychology, especially psychoanalytic theory. It was the evolution of computers and the internet into an imagistic (sensory, associational) medium that first captured his imagination, and is now deeply immersed in the development of a "psychology of cyberspace."
John Suler's theories and writings about the Psychology of Cyberspace have helped to place context around online social interactions and behaviors typically well-understood by psychologists, but less understood by laypeople. He was one of the first psychologists to write extensively about the human social experience of being online from such a vantage point, bringing together a mix of eastern philosophy, research, and his own observations in a variety of online social and gaming environments.
Dr. Suler is also one of the founding members of ISMHO. Recently, Dr. Suler is exploring the intersection of psychology and photography.
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Cyberpsychology
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[edit] Bibliography
- The Psychology of Cyberspace by Dr. John Suler
