Iuri Conceicao, Psy.D., is an Adjunct Professor at the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program at California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, Fresno. He is a multicultural and bilingual psychologist (English and Portuguese) who works in private practice with adolescents and adults. Iuri Conceicao worked as a psychologist in Portugal and in England before moving to the United States. He has a special interest in psychosis, eating disorders, and immigration issues. In England, he worked in a therapeutic community founded by Joseph Berke, one of R. D. Laing’s disciples, helping individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia to transition from the hospital into private housing. Iuri Conceicao completed his postdoc in Cambridge, MA, in an eating disorder residential treatment clinic. He is a regular presenter on topics of immigration, cultural differences, and its implications for psychology and psychotherapy. Iuri Conceicao is a participating and active member in several international groups who discuss and organize events related with topics in the areas of transcultural psychology and psychotherapy. His vision for psychology is for a psychology that values human subjectivity, uniqueness, diversity, and focused on the concepts of personal meaning and the “good life”.
Iuri Conceicao’s research interests are the intersections between psychology, history, philosophy, critical theory, and the neurosciences. He has a special interest in the history of the self and its implications for the concepts of cure and psychological treatments.
- Doctoral degree in clinical psychology from California Lutheran University, California, US (PsyD).
- Master's degree in psychoanalysis, history and culture from Birkbeck University of London, England (MA).
- Master's degree in clinical psychology from the Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal (MSC).
- Master's degree in philosophy from the New University in Lisbon, Portugal (MA).
- Post-graduated training in Neuropsychology from the Alcoitao School of Health in Lisbon, Portugal.
- The Foundation Course in Psychoanalysis from the London Institute of Psychoanalysis, England.
- Advanced course on Existentialism from the University of Oxford, England.
- Biological Aspects of Behavior
- History and Systems of Psychology
Conceicao, I. (2017). The uses of nostalgia: A Commentary on “Representations of autobiographical nostalgic memories: Generational effect, gender, nostalgia proneness and communication of nostalgic experiences”. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, 7(1), 89-97.