Staying Close
An exploration of the developmental foundations of our capacity to remain close—to ourselves, to others, and to experience.
Learn more →John A. Martin, Ph.D.
Psychologist
I'm John A. Martin, a licensed psychologist living in San Francisco. My career has included a decade of university teaching and research in developmental psychology, followed by over 40 years of clinical practice. My books, Staying Close and Staying with Strain, together with an ongoing collection of essays at Enotis Press, reflect a continuing exploration of how minds become organized, how people help one another change, and, more recently, how artificial intelligence may change the ways people think, learn, create, and help one another.
After more than forty years in private practice, I am no longer accepting new psychotherapy clients.
Books
Staying with Strain
A reconsideration of ordinary psychological suffering and the often-overlooked role of strain in healthy human development.
Learn more →Essays at Enotis Press
An ongoing collection of essays exploring psychology in the age of artificial intelligence—including its implications for psychological practice, education, creative work, and the ways people think together.
Among the essays are:
- An Old-Timer Psychologist's Case for Enthusiastically Embracing AI
- For Just a Moment, Nothing Is Amiss
- Prenatal Origins of Mystical Experience
- AI Wrote My 1974 Undergraduate Thesis
- Sex is Messy (and in More Ways than One)
Earlier Professional Work
My original professional website remains available as an archive of my earlier work, including academic publications, presentations, and information about my psychotherapy practice.
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