Jon Mills (psychologist)

Jon Mills is a Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. His principle theoretical contributions have been in the philosophy of the unconscious, a critique of psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, value inquiry, and the philosophy of culture. His clinical contributions are in the areas of attachment pathology, trauma, and psychic structure.

Academia and clinical credentials

Mills is Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto,^[1] and runs a mental health corporation^[2] in Ontario, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, his Psy.D. in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology-Chicago,^[3] and was a Fulbright scholar in the Departments of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and York University.^[4] He is a Diplomate, Fellow, and is board certified in Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology,^[5] and is a registered psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario.^[6]

Awards

Mills has been referred to as "a focused and iconoclastic scholar"^[7] and "one of the most scholarly psychoanalytic thinkers of our time."^[8] In 2008 he received a Significant Contribution to Canadian Psychology Award, won a Goethe Award^[9][10] in 2013 for best book, and was the 2015 recipient of the Otto Weininger Memorial Award^[11][12] for lifetime achievement from the Section on Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association. In 2006, 2011, and 2013, Mills also won a Gradiva Award for his scholarship given by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in New York City,^[13] which has been in more categories than any other recipient in the history of the prize^[14] including best article, book, and TV series, The Talking Cure.

Books and reviews

• Mills, Jon (2016). Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality. London: Routledge.
• Naso, Ronald C. & Jon Mills (Eds.) (2016). Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations. London: Karnac.
• Naso, Ronald C. & Jon Mills (Eds.) (2016). Humanizing Evil: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical, & Clinical Perspectives. London: Routledge.
• Mills, Jon (2014). Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics. London: Routledge^{[15][16][17][18][19][20]}
• Mills, Jon (2013). L'inconscient et son lieu. Genèse de la réalité psychique. Montreal: Éditions Liber^[21][22]
• Mills, Jon (2012). When God Wept (a novel). Washington, DC: The Humanist Press.^[23][24][25]
• Mills, Jon (2012). Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.^{[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]}
• Mills, Jon (2010). Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.^{[7][34][35][36]}
• Mills, Jon (Ed.) (2006). Other Banalities: Melanie Klein Revisited. London: Routledge.^[37][38][39]
• Mills, Jon. (2005). Treating Attachment Pathology. Lanham, MD: Aronson/Rowman & Littlefield.^{[40][41][42][43][44]}
• Mills, Jon (Ed.) (2005). Relational and Intersubjective Perspectives in Psychoanalysis: A Critique. Lanham, MD: Aronson/Rowman & Littlefield.^[45][46]
• Mills, Jon (Ed.) (2004). Psychoanalysis at the Limit: Epistemology, Mind, and the Question of Science'. Albany: SUNY Press.^[47][48]
• Mills, Jon (Ed.) (2004). Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis through Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press.^{[49][50][51][52]}
• Mills, Jon (2002). The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis. Albany: SUNY Press.^{[53][54][55][56][57][58]}
• Mills, Jon, (Ed.) (2002). A Pedagogy of Becoming. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.^[59]
• Mills, Jon, (Ed.) (1999). The Human Aspect: Selected Works in Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, and Existential Phenomenology. Long Beach, NY: Whittier.^[60]
• Mills, Jon & Janusz A. Polanowski (1997). The Ontology of Prejudice. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.^[61][62]

References

1. "Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto, Ontario". Adler.ca.
2. "Mills Psychology Professional Corporation". Dr. Jon Mills.
3. "Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Chicago".
4. "Curriculum Vitae JON MILLS, Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP" (PDF).
5. "ABPP Directory".
6. "Search for Member, College of Psychologists of Ontario".
7. Wheeler Vega, Jason A. (2012-01-01). "Book Reviews". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. LXXXI (1): 221–232. doi:10.1002/j.2167-4086.2012.tb00491.x. ISSN 2167-4086.
8. Thompson, M. Guy. "M. Guy Thompson, Review of Conundrums". Taylor & Francis.
9. "Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship". Canadian Psychological Association.
10. "Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship (for the 2012 publication year)" (PDF). Canadian Psychological Association Section on Psychoanalytic & Psychodynamic Psychology. 2013-10-15.
11. "Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology / Psychoanalytique et psychodynamique". CPA Section Related Programs. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Psychological Association. June 4, 2015.
12. "Jon Mills receives Weininger Award". International Psychoanalysis.
13. "GRADIVA® AWARD WINNERS" (PDF). National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
14. "Jon Mills Receives the Goethe and Gradiva Awards". International Psychoanalysis.
15. "Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of Truth".
16. "Reviews: Underworlds".
17. Naso, Ronald C. "Division/Review Issue 11 Winter 2015" (PDF). Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. pp. 6–8. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
18. Stam, Henderikus J. (2015). "The never ending fascination: Philosophies and the unconscious.". PsycCRITIQUES (Vol 60(16), 2015).
19. White, John (2015-11-01). "Book Reviews". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 60 (5): 721–725. doi:10.1111/1468-5922.12189_2. ISSN 1468-5922.
20. Gargiulo, Gerald (2015-06-16). "Books". The Psychoanalytic Review. 102 (3): 430. doi:10.1521/prev.2015.102.3.423.
21. Boisseuil, Anne (2014-08-30). "Jon Mills, L'inconscient et son lieu. Genèse de la réalité psychique". Lectures [En ligne], Les comptes rendus.
22. "Inconscient et son lieu (L')". Éditions Liber. 2013-08-26.
23. Seltzer, Leon F. (2012-12-12). ""When God Wept": An Intriguing Fictional Hybrid". Evolution of the Self. Psychology Today.
24. "Prominent Psychologist Jon Mills Pens First Novel, When God Wept". American Humanist Association. 2012-09-28.
25. Seltzer, Leon F. (2013-04-19). "When God Wept". TheHumanist.com.
26. Greenberg, Tamara McClintock (2012-03-13). "Conundrums: Approaches to Psychoanalysis Current Controversies in Psychoanalytic Psychology". 21st Century Aging. Psychology Today.
27. de Villiers, Vivian. "Conundrums: a critique of contemporary psychoanalysis Book REVIEW". Contemporary Psychotherapy.
28. White, John R. (September 2013). "Book Review". Journal of Analytical Psychology. Wiley. doi:10.1111/1468-5922.12032_4.
29. Rosenbaum, Philip J. (2013). "Returning to Modernity?". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. doi:10.1080/00107530.2013.10746536.
30. Greenberg, Tamara McClintock. "Review of: Conundrums: Approaches to psychoanalysis Current Controversies in Psychoanalytic Psychology by Jon Mills". International Psychoanalysis.
31. Ridenour, Jeremy (Summer 2012). "Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Book Review)". DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum (APA Div. 39 (Psychoanalysis). Psychoanalysis Division 39 American Psychological Association.
32. Greenstadt, William M. (2013-04-01). "Book Reviews". The Psychoanalytic Review. 100 (2): 373–388. doi:10.1521/prev.2013.100.2.373. ISSN 0033-2836.
33. Cohen, Mariam C. (2015-03-03). "Book Reviews". Psychodynamic Psychiatry. 43 (1): 137–178. doi:10.1521/pdps.2015.43.1.137.
34. Appelbaum, Jerome (December 2013). "Book Review". The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. Palgrave MacMillan. doi:10.1057/ajp.2013.32.
35. Lachs, John. "Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality: Reviews". McGill-Queen's University Press.
36. Jackson, Jeffrey M. (July 2014). "Review of Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality". Psychoanalytic Psychology.
37. Raubolt, Richard (Winter 2009). "Book Review". Psychologist-Psychoanalyst. APA Div. 39 (Psychoanalysis).
38. Rijdt, Lut De. "De ondraaglijke banaliteit van Klein". Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse.
39. "Reviews: Other Banalities".
40. Olson, Trevor R.; MacGregor, Michael Wm. (May 2006). "Review of Treating Attachment Pathology". Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne.
41. Daufenbach, Robert (June 2006). "Treating Attachment Pathology". Counseling Today.
42. Friedman, Henry J. (April 2007). "Treating Attachment Pathology. By Jon Mills. Oxford, United Kingdom: Jason Aronson, 2005. 366 pp.". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
43. "Treating Attachment Pathology: Reviews". Jason Aronson, Inc. Rowman & Littlefield.
44. Haartman, Keith (2008-12-01). "Book Reviews". The Psychoanalytic Review. 95 (6): 1048–1050. doi:10.1521/prev.2008.95.6.1045. ISSN 0033-2836.
45. Steinberg, Paul Ian (August 2006). "Book Review". Canadian Psychology. EBSCO online library search engine directory.
46. "Reviews". Jason Aronson. Rowman & Littlefield.
47. Tarozzi Goldsmith, Marcella (Winter 2005). "Book Review". Psychologist-Psychoanalyst. American Psychological Association Division 39 Psychoanalysis.
48. "Summary: Psychoanalysis at the Limit Epistemology, Mind, and the Question of Science". Excelsior Editions. SUNY Press.
49. Rothschild, Louis (Spring 2006). "Book Review" (PDF). Psychologist-Psychoanalyst. American Psychological Association Division 39 Psychoanalysis.
50. Nissim-Sabat, Marilyn (2007). "Review". Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing.
51. Chessick, Richard D. (2006). "Review". Journal of American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing.
52. "Summary: Rereading Freud Psychoanalysis through Philosophy". Excelsior Editions. SUNY Press.
53. Sabat, Marilyn Nissim (Winter 2005). "Book Review". Psychologist-Psychoanalyst. Psychoanalysis Division 39 American Psychological Association.
54. Frie, Roger (October 2006). "Beyond the Dialectic Recognition: A review of The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis, by Jon Mills, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003" (PDF). Contemporary Psychoanalysis. W. A. W. Institute.
55. Remley, William L.; Ver Eecke, Wilfried (June 2007). "Review". The Review of Metaphysics.
56. Letteri, Mark (Summer 2005). "Book Review". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Wiley Periodicals, Inc. doi:10.1002/jhbs.20084.
57. Hewitt, Marsha Aileen (2008). "Book Review". The Psychoanalytic Review. Guilford Press.
58. "Summary and Reviews". Excelsior Editions. SUNY Press.
59. "CHOICE Review: A Pedagogy of Becoming (Value Inquiry Book Series 116) (Value Inquiry Book, 116)". Amazon. Rodopi Bv Editions.
60. Mills, Jon (1999). The Human Aspect: Selected Works in Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, and Existential Phenomenology. Whittier. ISBN 9781576040935.
61. Mills, Jon; Polanowksi, Janusz. "The Ontology of Prejudice". Value Inquiry Book Series 58. Rodopi.
62. Byran Crable (2000). Book Review: The Thought of Prejudice and the Prejudice of Thought. Human Studies, 23: 317-323.

External links

• Podcast Interview with Tracy D. Morgan at New Books in Psychoanalysis on December 19, 2012.
• Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of Truth. A lecture delivered by professor Jon Mills at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Wrocław, Poland, on December 17, 2013.
• A Critique of the Postmodern Turn in Relational Psychonalysis' A lecture by Dr. Jon Mills, Keynote Speaker at the conference "Relational Psychoanalysis and Its Critics" held by the IARPP and Bar-Ilan's Multi-disciplinary Studies Unit, in February 2015.
• On the Essence of Evil A lecture delivered by Dr. Jon Mills at the Department of Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, February 10, 2015.
• Rethinking the Unconscious: Dissociation and the Question of Agency Lecture delivered by Dr. Jon Mills at the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, India, on February 20, 2015.
• On the Nature of the Soul: From the PreSocratics to Plato and Aristotle. A lecture by Dr. Jon Mills. Delivered at the annual conference of the Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, April 24, 2015.
• On the End of the World. Otto Weininger Memorial Award Keynote Address for lifetime achievement in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychology, Canadian Psychological Association annual conference, Ottawa, Ontario, June 4, 2015.
• Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the Question of Evil Lecture delivered by Prof. Jon Mills at Nashville State Community College, Department of Arts and Humanities, October 8, 2015
• Deconstructing Evil Conference presentation by Dr. Jon Mills, panel on "Psychoanalysis of Evil", International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Philadelphia, PA, November 7, 2015
• On the Brink of Extinction. Conference presentation. Climate Change: Views from the Humanities: A Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference. Environmental Humanities Initiative Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, May 3–24, 2016.
• Video interview on the book, Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality, Routledge Press, July 2, 2016.
• A Beautiful Soul Documentary film. Directed and Produced by Jon Mills. July 22, 2016.