Pamela Cooper-White
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Pamela Cooper-White (born 3 October 1955) is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York.[1]
She was previously the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA and Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association's Th.D. program in Pastoral Counseling. She is an ordained Priest in the Episcopal Church 1992–present (previously an ordained Minister in The United Church of Christ, 1984–1988). She was the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria 2013–14.
Cooper-White holds two Ph.D. degrees: from Harvard University, and Institute for Clinical Social Work (a psychoanalytic clinical and research degree); an MA in Pastoral Counseling with distinction from Holy Names University; a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree with honors from Harvard Divinity School; and a Bachelor of Music magna cum laude from Boston University where she studied art, voice performance, and music history and education.
Career
Cooper-White is a certified clinical Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), a National Board Certified Counselor (NBCC), a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Illinois, a member of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR), and a Research Associate of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She serves on the Board of the International Association for Spiritual Care, the Steering Committee of the Psychology, Culture & Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pastoral Theology. She has taught at UCLA; the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California; Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL; and was Professor of Pastoral Theology for 9 years at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (now part of United Lutheran Seminary). In 2008 she was appointed the Ben G and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA, where she also co-directed the Atlanta Theological Association's ThD in Pastoral Counseling (a joint program of Columbia Seminary, Candler School of Theology/Emory University, and the Interdenominational Theological Centre (the largest consortium of African American theological seminaries in the U.S.). In 2015 she moved to New York to become the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, teaching psychoanalytic theory, pastoral theology, and spiritual care.
