Kelly professor psychology university of ms
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Kal Kseib meets Kelly Wilson, Professor of Psychology at the University of Mississippi.
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What’s something people might not know about you that, if they knew, would surprise them?
I came to psychology late. I was years-old when I started college. I dropped out of school when I was And between the ages of 16 and the age of 30, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. Chronically unemployed and unemployable – a serial felon. Terribly, terribly depressed – suicidally depressed pretty much all the time, except for little glorious windows in time when I’d get just the right combination of drugs and I’d be able to feel like I could stay in my own skin for a minute. But mostly it was just hard and destructive to me and to a lot of other people. In , at the age of 30, after many years of overdoses and car accidents and violence, illness, and just wanting to die, I was admitted into a locked psychiatric ward. I joke with people sometimes – although it’s true – that I got my start in psychology in a psychiatric hospital.
Quite a story. How did those experiences shape your next steps?
At the time I carried a copy of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning around like a compass. I looked at Fra
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Professor of Psychology
Director of Training, Masters Psychology Program
Contact Information
Education
- Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of Utah
- MS, Counseling Psychology, University of Utah
- BA, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Courses Taught
- PSY Individual Psychotherapy
- PSY Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
- PSY Group Psychotherapy
- PSY Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- PSY Clinical Practicum
- PSY Clinical Fieldwork
Research Interests
Eating, Mood, and Anxiety Disorders; Group Psychotherapy; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Forensic Psychology
Recent Publications/Professional Activities
- Cunha, L., Carlisle, A., & Moreno, J.K. (April, ). Literary fiction in counselor education. Presented at the annual meeting of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, Burlingame, CA.
- Moreno, J.K. (). A duty to betray: A novel. Taylorsville, IL: Oak Tree Press/Dark Oak Mysteries.
- Moreno, J.K. (). On writing. Northern California Group Psychotherapy Newsletter, Winter, 6.
- Moreno, J.K. (October, ). A Duty to Betray: Evolution of a psycho-legal thriller. Presented at the quarterly meeting of the California Writer’s Club, Central Coast Chapter, CA.
- Moreno, J.K. (September, ). The new write