Peter M. Newton

Biography

B.S. Psychology, University of Washington, 1964 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Columbia University, 1969 Dr. Newton taught at Yale, Washington, and UC Berkeley prior to joining the Wright Institute faculty in 1979. He received his postdoctoral clinical training at Yale University, where he worked with Daniel J. Levinson in the creation of his theory of adult psychosocial development. Newton's earliest research went toward the formation of a systems theory of psychotherapy and a socio-psychological theory of the work group. More recently, his research has been biographical in nature, with life-cycle developmental studies of the 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson, W. H. Auden, and Sigmund Freud. He has sponsored doctoral studies of other creative writers and scientists, such as Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Charles Darwin, and Melanie Klein.

Research Interest

Clinical Psychology , Psychoanalytic Psychology.