Both the music of Jazz and the concept of individual identity are intimately linked to the American experience
Dr. Roy Tietze, clinical psychologist and educator, has been teaching for more than 40 years at Marymount Manhattan College. The collegial educational community at MMC has encouraged his creativity, and their balanced educational model blending the Sciences with the Liberal Arts forms a solid foundation to prepare a young adult for life in this continuously changing world we live within.
Guided by experience and a strong belief that psychosocial relationships and dialogue among students and teachers form the most complete educational connection, he has worked in many areas to create dialogue opportunities, from
- student organizations such as Psi Chi (International Honor Society in Psychology) and PsyA (MMC Psychology Alumna Society),
- reality-based connections between education and real-world experience
- networking connections such as MMC’s Bedford Hills Campus “Crossing Borders” conferences, and NYU FRS
- internal relationships, such as regular team-teaching with colleagues from Literature and Theatre, a course Titled “Psychological Portraits in Literature” during the entire course of his tenure at MMC.
Guided by experience and a strong belief that psychosocial relationships and dialogue among students and teachers form the most complete educational connection, he has worked in many areas to create dialogue opportunities, from student organizations such as Psi Chi (International Honor Society in Psychology) and PsyA (MMC Psychology Alumna Society), as reality-based connections between education and realworld experience, to networking connections such as MMC’s Bedford Hills Campus “Crossing Borders” conferences, NYU FRS, and internal relationships, such as regular team-teaching with colleagues from Literature and Theatre, a course Titled “Psychological Portraits in Literature” during the entire course of his tenure at MMC.
The course “The Blues, Jazz and American Identity”, the topic of his first book, was created as a Shared Curriculum interdisciplinary course, combining the Science of psychology with the Art of Music. The course uses jazz as both a skills set for listening and reflecting, and as a metaphor for integrating the fast-paced changes of modern life as individuals attempt to maintain a continuous sense of psychological and cultural identity. Encouraging empowerment among MMC’s diverse population is a major goal.
Whether in his private practice, or any other professional and communal activity, he’s always been committed to use emotional experience as well as intellectual ideas, as dual pathways toward knowledge. This has led to exploration of Identity as a developmental process, & adult development as a Life-Span endeavor.
Psychology’s Bio-Psycho-Social (BPS) model, includes neuroscience as biol foundation, a field where human creativity, especially in response to music, has made many recent contributions. The acceptance of individual human differences through the lens of Multiculturalism serves as a broad, rich framework for the development of human knowledge.
The course “The Blues, Jazz and American Identity”, the topic of his first book, was created as a Shared Curriculum interdisciplinary course, combining the Science of psychology with the Art of Music. The course uses jazz as both a skills set for listening and reflecting, and as a metaphor for integrating the fast-paced changes of modern life as individuals attempt to maintain a continuous sense of psychological and cultural identity. Encouraging empowerment among MMC’s diverse population is a major goal.
Whether in his private practice, or any other professional and communal activity, he’s always been committed to use emotional experience as well as intellectual ideas, as dual pathways toward knowledge. This has led to exploration of Identity as a developmental process, & adult development as a Life-Span endeavor.
Psychology’s Bio-Psycho-Social (BPS) model, includes neuroscience as biol foundation, a field where human creativity, especially in response to music, has made many recent contributions. The acceptance of individual human differences through the lens of Multiculturalism serves as a broad, rich framework for the development of human knowledge.