Al Dueck bio

							Alvin Dueck
Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of the Integration of Psychology and Theology,
Department of Clinical Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy

Contact Information:
e-mail: adueck@fuller.edu
phone: 626-584-5537

Education:
BA, University of Manitoba
BTh, Mennonite Brethren Bible College
MA, Appalachian State University
PhD, Stanford University

Biographical Information:
Alvin Dueck is the Evelyn and Frank Freed professor of the integration of psychology
and theology at Fuller. In addition to teaching courses that focus on the dialogue
between theology and psychology, he is engaged in research on the role of religion in
therapy, congregational health, and conflict resolution between Christians and Muslims.
He is the principal investigator in a research project on the spiritual experience of
Christians, Muslims, and Jews funded by the Templeton Foundation. He also
participates in the Center for Research on Religion and Psychotherapy.
Dueck is a licensed psychologist with a long history of teaching in the seminary setting.
Prior to joining Fuller’s faculty in 1998, Dueck was director of the Marriage and Family
Counseling program at the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary. He presented the
Integration Lectures at Fuller in 1986, which have since been published in a book
entitled Between Jerusalem and Athens: Ethical Perspectives on Culture, Religion and
Psychotherapy. Together with Cameron Lee, he has edited a volume of essays entitled
Why Psychology Needs Theology: A Radical-Reformation Perspective (2005). He also
edited and contributed an article entitled “Modern and Postmodern Approaches to
Integration” to a special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Theology. For the 40th
Anniversary of the School of Psychology he edited a volume of integration essays by
faculty entitled: Integrating Psychology and Theology: Reflections and Research. He is
co author with Ann Ulanov of The Living God and the Living Psyche.

Dueck serves as manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Psychology and Theology. His
professional affiliations have included the American Psychological Association, the
California Psychological Association, the Christian Association of Psychological Studies,
the American Academy of Religion, and the Association of Mennonite Psychologists.

He was a board member and chair of the Board of Directors of the Kings View Mental
Health Corporation. Dueck has also served as a consultant to international mission
agencies since 1984 and is actively involved in encouraging indigenous mental health
awareness and services in Guatemala, Africa, and China. He was a participant in a
mental health tour to the Soviet Union in 1989.

Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching:
Systems/symbolic/object relations psychotherapy, postmodernity and psychological
theory, healing structures in congregations and communities, spirituality and
psychotherapy, ethics and therapy, Jung and Christianity, integrative research.