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    The Right Structure (Axiological Science) Brings Values, the "building blocks of thinking," Into Focus                    

                                                                                                                                                                                         

             Leon Pomeroy, Ph.D.                                                                                                                                            
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                                                          Author:  "The New Science of Axiological Psychology"  

 A Textbook Presenting Two Paradigm Shifts in Science Giving Birth to a Second Science I Call Multipolar Science, to be distinguished from historic Monopolar or natural science. Multipolar Science acknowledges the existence of Values in a World of Facts beyond anything to be found throughout the pages of history. Multipolar Science is an integration of emerging Axiological Science and Natural Science. It's foremost applications are to be found in Axiological Psychology and Hartmanian Valuemetrics derived from philosopher Hartman's mathematical model of cognitive processes dedicated to valuation and thinking as systematically  and empirically validated in the pages of "The New Science of Axiological Psychology." This advance in human knowledge (Pomeroy-Hartman Synthesis in the field psychology) holds profound implications for humanity in the 21st century once it's understood and then translated into science-based, compulsory moral education in the coming decades; among other rich and varied applications reflecting the universality of values in all human endeavors!  

 

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Published Scientist in such journals as:  "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," " "The Journal of Electroencephalography and Neurophysiology," etc.

Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

                              Licensed Clinical Psychologist: Virginia, New York, New Jersey 

Member, American Psychological Association (APA)     

Member, Virginia Psychological Association (VPA)     

Member, Northern Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists (NVSCP)

Clinical Psychologist, General Practice: Woodbridge, Virginia,  2004-Present 

Senior Clinical Psychologist, Outpatient Clinic, VA Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1973-2000, Retired

  Clinical Psychologist, General Practice, Upper East Side Manhattan, 1973-2004       

         Consulting Psychologist, Senior Care Associates, Manhattan, 2001-2004              

              HVP Valuemetrics Coach, 1982-Present                

     Past President, Robert S. Hartman Institute (With Resources at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville) 1999-2006        

    President Emeritus, Ambassador, and Board Member, Robert S. Hartman Institute, 2006-Present    

                      Pioneer in the field of preventive medicine: Together with Professors Linus Pauling (Winner of Two Nobel Prizes), Professor R.J. Williams (Director, Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute, University of Texas at Austin; Biochemist who discovered more Vitamins and Their Variants than variants than any other scientist in the world; author of "Biochemical Individuality" providing the foundation for a science-based preventive medicine), and a Group of Progressive Physicians (e.g., Dr. Robert McCullough, Former President of Lions International) Dr. Pomeroy Founded the world first International Preventive Medicine Society (IAPM) Devoted to New Thinking and Practices in medicine aimed at the prevention of chronic, degenerative diseases and optimal host resistance in infectious diseases. The IAPM admitted to membership Ph.D.s in Science, M.D.s, and Dentists sharing a common interest in advancing proactive, preventive, complimentary, integrative, biological medicine as opposed to the prevailing medical model of merely treating the signs and symptoms of disease. With the 21st century advances in genetic science are beginning to fulfill IAPM's vision of individualizing medicine rather than building on the findings of population statistics alone, of founding medicine on genetotrophic and orthomolecular concepts, of making clinical nutrition more responsive to the needs of individuals rather than statistically constructed RDAs that fail to address the realities of biochemical, biological, and genetic individuality. Dr. Pomeroy served as the first Ph.D. president of this international medical society in the 1970s at a time when its membership included some 1,000 physicians. Between 1970 and 1990 IAPM was the premier alternative medicine society for scientists, physicians, and dentists. In time the proliferation of competing preventive medicine societies, around strong personalities and professional specialization, lead to a decline in membership until loss of funding resulted in its being discontinued as a "home" for tomorrow's health care professionals today. The IAPM played an important role in educating the general public and in the passage of legislation favorable to preventive medicine in many states. Its members testified before congress with the result that a preventive medicine section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was established.  

Elected President,  International Academy of Preventive Medicine, 1975-1976 (The world's first international medical society for physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and scientist-clinicians holding Ph.D. degrees. Our work contributed to the establishment of a preventive medicine division of the National Institutes of Health) 

Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, 1970-1990  

Founding Editor, New Dynamics of Preventive Medicine Series (Five Volumes)

Fellow, Albert Ellis Institute, 45 East 65th Street, Manhattan, 1973-Present

             Advocate of the propositions that Moral "Insanity" is the "Royal Road" to Clinical "Insanity;" that Brain is not Mind, and       that Psychoanalysis has significantly undermined the moral fabric of societies and civilizations in the last 100 years!

                                                          Published Psychologist and Biologist                                                              

Published Axiologist Advancing the Empirical Science of 
Values Appreciation, Values Clarification, Values Measurement and Moral Reasoning in an age of Moral Obtuseness and Confusion Finding Expression Social Problems Such as Youth Violence, Incivility, Decadent Pop-Culture-Trends, Terrorism, and so forth...rendering the obvious inescapable!       

 Behavioral Assessment Specialist Employing Standard Psychometrics (MMPI, Cattell CAQ), and Computer Assisted HVP-Valuemetrics       

Research Interests: Bridging the divide between individualism and collectivism with the tools of values research, unpacking the moral dimensions of medicine and health care employing axiological science. Medical ethics, the development of a universal language and curriculum for moral education, the causal relationship between "moral insanity" and "clinical insanity;" debunking post modernism and  moral relativism; identifying the need to upgrade 3R education to 4R education, growing tensions between high tech natural science and low tech moral philosophy, the tragic flaw in the character of modern civilizations with run away natural science and technology without moral science checks and balances, the asymmetric evolution of civilizations grounded in the transformation of natural philosophies such as alchemy and astrology into chemistry and astronomy without the co-evolution of moral philosophy into moral science, advancing Multi-Polar Science as distinguished from Mono-Polar Science, grounding the virtues of self reliance and rational health choices in axiological science so as to contribute to the rescue of societies from their fastest growing failing businesses of health care and incarceration and the inoculation of combat soldiers against the signs and symptoms of PTSD.   

  Formerly Associate Professor Contributing to the development of Long Island University's Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program  (1967-1973)Formerly Adjunct Associate Professor Invited to Serve on the Faculties of New York University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,  and City University of New York 

Formerly Research Assistant to R. J. Williams, Director of the World Renown Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute, University of Texas at Austin (Where More Vitamins and Their Variants Were Discovered Than at Any Other Laboratory in the World. An Institute Formerly Funded by Anderson Clayton Corporation of Houston, Texas and Devoted to Alcoholism, Nutrition, and Brain Wave (EEG) Research. The Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute between 1962-1967, Together with the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Austin (1965-1967) Funded Dr. Pomeroy's Dissertation Research Concerning Computer Assisted Analysis of Brain Waves (EEGs) as a Ph.D. Candidate in the Field of Psychology. 

Well Funded Interdisciplinary Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin Involving the University's Departments of Psychology Computer Science, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering: Topic: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Brain Waves (EEGs).

Published Research Appearing in Such Prestigious Scientific Publications as The Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the USA,, and The Journal of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology.  Author of Published Data in the Field of Basic Values Research Establishing Axiological Science and its Integration with Cognitive Psychology Theory and Practice Having Significant Implications for the Development of Universal, Trans-Cultural, Religiously Neutral Moral Education Curriculums

                      Pioneer in the fields of basic and applied axiological science leading to a "preventive psychology" paradigm and curriculum development in the field of universal, transcultural, religiously-neutral "moral education." This Research is Inspired by Dr. Pomeroy's Work With World War II Veterans at the Outpatient Clinic, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York; by an Academic Association with Professor G. M. Gilbert, Ph.D. , Principal Psychologist, Nuremberg Trials and Author of "The Psychology of Dictatorship; by an Association with Internationally Renown Psychoanalyst, Editor and Writer Benjamin Wolman, Ph.D. (Author of "Call No Man Normal") With Whom Dr. Pomeroy Collaborated in Editing "The Handbook of General Psychology," Prentice-Hall, 1973; by an Association with Philosopher and Chairman of the Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, in the Advancement of Empirical Studies Confirming the Validity of Philosopher Hartman's mathematical model (formal axiology) of valued and moral phenomena for which Professor Hartman was Nominated for the Nobel Prize; by an Extended Clinical Post Doctoral Internship and Fellowship under Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Director of the Ellis Institute at 45 East 65th Street, Manhattan a Time When Ellis was One of the Most Vigorous and Articulate Critics of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Hegemony Gripping Manhattan Between 1945 and 1970; and by an Association with Professors Roger Williams, Ph.D. of Texas and Linus Pauling of California and Organization Work Advancing New Thinking in Medicine Around Genetogrophic and Orthomolecular Concepts and Practices Laying the Foundation for Tomorrow's Preventive Medicine Today and the End of Medicine as the Fastest Growing Failing Business in the World.. 

Values Research Data Employing Hartman's Mathematical Model Regularly Presented Before the Annual Meetings of the Robert S. Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee at Knoxville (1981-Present); published in "Forms of Value and Valuation,"  Journal for the International Study of Group Tensions," and other publications. 

Principal Scientist Accomplishing the Systematic, Empirical Transformation of Hartman's Theory of Values into an Empirical Science of Values Effectively Establishing the New Disciplines of Axiological Science and its Foremost Application Axiological Psychology Which Stands as a Model for All Social Sciences Striving to go Beyond Their Pre-Scientific Status These Days. 

Associate Editor, Handbook of General Psychology, Prentice-Hall, 1973, Cited in Resume

Formerly Clinical Consultant, Senior Citizens Care Group, 141 East 55th Street, New York, New York  (2001-2004) During the Period of Time Given to Writing "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" at Lunenburg, Massachusetts and Subsequently Published by Rodopi Press of Amsterdam and New York, 2005. 

"The New Science of Axiological Psychology" by Dr. Pomeroy (Published in Europe by Rodopi Press, 2005) is a Book Many Regard as Vigorously and Effectively Challenging Today's Half-Smart Psychology and its Highly Flawed, Dominant Paradigm Devoid of Value Science and Moral Science Foundations. A Dominant Paradigm that has Torn the Moral Fabric of Civilizations for some Hundred Years Giving Rise to Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents;" now Breeding What Dr. Pomeroy Refers to as the "Canaries" of Domestic and International Terrorism Increasingly Wearing Masks of Religious Fascism! "Half-Smart" Psychology and "Half Smart" Paradigm Because Today's Psychology and its Controlling Paradigm are Not Grounded in a Science of Values and Morals Without Which There Can Be No Science of Psychology or any Other Social Science for that matter! "Tragically Flawed" Civilizations Because they are all in  the Grip of Run-Away Natural Science Without Moral Science Checks and Balances; Made Worse by Psychology and Medicine's Insidious Destruction of the Moral Fabric of Civilizations; all Six of them! It can be Argued that the Failure to Ground Psychology and Medicine in Moral Science Makes them Dangerous to Civilizations and Collectives Even as they Help Individuals Overcome Pain and Suffering. Some Might Argue that today's Psychology and Medicine are Elegant Faustian Bargains of Sorts! This is A Book Triggering an Intellectual Revolution Based on the Fulfillment of the Modern Project of Grounding Morals in Science for the First Time in the History of Any and All Civilizations! It is the Substance of Tomorrow's Mental Life Today! It is the Key to the Survival of Humankind as We Know it! It is a Book Worthy of Consideration for the Nobel Prize in a Lop Sided World of Materialism Made Worse by Hegemonic Natural Science (Mono-Polar Science) Without Moral Science Checks and Balances  (Multi-Polar Science).     

 

 

                      

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                                            Graduated (Pro Merito) Westfield High School; Westfield, Massachusetts, USA                                   

   1.   B.A.                     Biology                              U. of Massachusetts at Amherst
   2.   M.A.                     Biology                              U. of Massachusetts at Amherst
   3.   Ph.D.                     Psychology                                   U. of Texas at Austin
                                                                                                                                                              

4. Pre-Doctoral Diploma: Neurophysiology Seminar (1964), Brain Research Institute, 445 Moras, Mexico City, Professor Raul Hernandez-Peon, M.D., Director: Part of Psychology Doctoral Studies, UT Austin. Dr. Hernandez-Peon's Lectures to our Group of American Graduate Students and Latin American Physicians Were Memorable and Inspiring. In Later Years Dr. Pomeroy Learned While Lecturing at the National University of Mexico (2001), Following The "911" Attack, That Dr. Hernandez-Peon  was a Friend of Professor Robert S. Hartman who had Lectured at the National University. Dr. Pomeroy Discovered Hartmanm's Writings While a Clinical Post Doctoral Fellow at the Albert Ellis Institute in Manhattan Many Years Later.  The Mexican Connection Remains Strong Following the Establishment of a Mexican Branch of the Robert S. Hartman Institute in 2004 With the Help of Mexican Friends and Associates at the Robert S. Hartman Institute, USA. 
5. Post-Doctoral Diploma: Clinical Post Doctoral Internship and Fellowship, Albert Ellis Institute (1969-1973. Fellow, Albert Ellis Institute (1973-Present). Albert Ellis Institute, 45 E 65th St., New York, New York 10021. During This Period of Internship, then Professor Pomeroy also served full time (Associate P:rofessor) on the psychology faculty of a recently established clinical psychology doctoral program at Long Island University. (Professor G. M. Gilbert, Chairman and Former Chief Psychologist, Nazi Nuremberg Trials, Germany, and Author, "Psychology of Dictatorship," and other studies growing out of his World War II Experiences). Professor Pomeroy also collaborated with Senior Professor Benjamin Wolman in the editing of scholarly publications including The Handbook of Genral Psychology (Prentice-Hall, 1973).  Professor Wolman was a World Renown Psychoanalyst, Editor, Writer, and Publisher at the time. It was during this period also that Professor Pomeroy collaborated with Professor Linus Pauling of California and Professor R. J. Williams of Texas in the Founding of the worlds first international preventive medicine society at a time when physicians and scientists were not organized in this field. Following completion of a clinical post-doctoral  internship at the Ellis Institute on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Professor Pomeroy accepted an invitation to serve full time on the clinical staff of the Outpatient Clinic, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Brooklyn while engaged in launching a part time private practice on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His subsequent years of clinical practice with veterans and Manhattan clients provided him with a rich clinical experience, and personal satisfaction, of the sort only possible in one of the world's greatest cities.)   
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      II.  Summary of Employment History:         

A. University of Texas at Austin 
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Research Scientist and Assistant to World Renown Biochemist Professor R. J. Williams (1962-1967)

Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute of the University of Texas at Austin Serving as Research Assistant to Professor R. J. Williams, Director. Professor Williams was involved with the discovery of more vitamins than any other scientist in the world. Research involving cancer, alcoholism and computer analysis of brain waves.. 

2.

Research Assistant to Professor A. J. Welch, Head, Biomedical Engineering Laboratories, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin  (1965-1967)

Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin: Assistant to Professor A. J. Welch, Chairman Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering. Research involving computer assisted analysis of brain waves..

Completed interdisciplinary doctoral dissertation August, 1967, University of Texas at Austin 

 
B. Full Time University Professor, New York City: 1967-1973 

 

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Assistant Professor (1967-1969)

Long Island University's Clinical Doctoral Program Then Established Under Professor G. M. Gilbert, Chairman (Formerly Chief Psychologist, Nuremberg Trials), and Author of "Psychology of Dictatorship." Graduate and Undergraduate Instruction. .

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Associate Professor (1969-1973)

Long Island University's Recently Established Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program Under Professor G. M. Gilbert, Chairman and Professor Benjamin Wolman, World Renown Psychoanalyst, Editor, and Author. Graduate and Undergraduate Instruction. 
C. Clinical Post-Doctoral Fellowship: 1970-1973

The Albert Ellis Institute, 45 East 65th Street, Manhattan 
D. Adjunct Faculty Appointments: 1968-Present 

 

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Summer Faculty (1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972)

CUNY, Queens College: Graduate and Undergraduate Instruction.

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Summer Faculty (1977, 1978)

The New School for Social Research, Manhattan.

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Summer Faculty (1978)

CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Manhattan

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Summer Graduate Faculty (1974, 1975, 1976)

New York University, Washington Square Campus, Manhattan.

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Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology
    

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (2005-Present) 
E. Career Psychologist Appointment, U.S. Government, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Outpatient Clinic, Brooklyn, New York (Harbor View Medical Center), 1973-2000, Retired

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Outpatient Clinic, 800 Poly Place, Brooklyn, New York:  Affiliated with New York Downstate Medical Center. Senior Staff Psychologist, Head, Behavioral Medicine Unit, 1973 - 2000, Civil Service Retirement. 
VAMC Outpatient Clinic Duties: Behavioral Medicine, Hypnosis, Supervisor of Psychology and Medical Interns, POW Group Therapy; Intake Evaluations, Compensation Exams, Individual and Marital Counseling; General Group Therapy Sessions, Biofeedback Training, Ericksonian Hypnosis; Staff Presentations; Research Activities, Recipient of Several Excellence and Outstanding Achievement Awards.. 

Private Practice, Manhattan's Upper East Side, 1973-2000, Retired 

Private Practice, Northern Virginia, 2004-Present 
F. Pioneer, International Alternative/Complimentary Medicine Movement: 1967-1988. Organizational Work Collaborating with Professors R. J. Williams, Ph.D. of Texas (Discoverer of More Vitamins and Their Variants Than any Other Scientist in the World), Linus Pauling, Ph.D. of California (Winner of Two Nobel Prizes), and a Group of Progressive Physicians The World Over (Including Robert McCullough, MD of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Former President, Lions International), and Many Concerned Doctoral Level Scientists,  Dentists, and Veterinarians),   Professor, Doctor Pomeroy (Scientist and Clinician) Founded The International Academy of Preventive Medicine, Fall, 1969. Dr. Pomeroy Served on the Board of This International  Medical Society Until 1988 at Which Time His Organization Work Became Involved with the Advancement of Values and Morals Research Cited Below. He Served as Its Elected President of IAPM From 1975-1976.  During His IAPM Years Dr. Pomeroy Came to Recognize and Study the Crucial Importance of Moral Dimensions (the Virtues of Self Reliance and Rational Health Choices) to General Health Care, and the Pressing Need for a More Organized Societal Promotion of the Moral Obligation of Individuals to Care for Their Personal Wellness out of Enlightened Self Interest and to Minimize Societal (Collective) Costs in the Face of the Emerging Realities of a Therapeutic State No Collective (Society, Civilization) can Afford, and Medicine as The Fastest Growing Failing Business in the World!    

Pioneer, Research Grounding Values and Morals in Science: 1980 - Present. President, Robert S. Hartman Institute (1999-Present) With Resources and Annual Meetings at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Author of Many Research Papers Presented Before this Professional Society Devoted to Values and Morals Research. Author of Published Articles Appearing in Journals and Books. Author of "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" Validating New Thinking in Values and Morals Research and Advancing the Reconstruction of Psychology (Including Medicine) Around Values for the 21st Century Emphasizing the Importance of Formal Moral Education Grounded in the Scientific Study of Our Greatest Resource: Inherited and Acquired Patterns (Cognitive Structures) of Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E), and Systemic (S) Valuation and Thinking...Making Learning Our IESs as Important as Learning our ABCs!  

 
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Organizational Work: 

 

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Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine (JIAPM). Published by the IAPM Medical Society.

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Founding Editor (1973-1977), New Dynamics of Preventive Medicine Series:. An Annual IAPM Publication of Society Proceedings. 

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President, IAPM Medical Society (1975-1976). At The Time An International Medical Society of Over One Thousand Doctors Devoted to New Thinking in Medicine Complimenting Traditional Medicine. FOUNDING MEMBERS: Professors Linus Pauling; R. J. Williams; Leon Pomeroy; and Physicians R. O. Brennan, Robert McCullough, Jennings, Harper, and others. 

                                                                         
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    Research Interests:  

       Values and Morals Research: 

 CONCERNING THE DISTURBING FACT THAT SOCIAL NORMS ARE FAILING TO KEEP UP WITH TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 PROPOSING A CULTURE-FREE, RELIGIOUSLY-NEUTRAL BASIC SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR ETHICS AND MORAL EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

EXAMINING THE PREMISE THAT "MORAL INSANITY" EVOLVES INTO "CLINICAL INSANITY"

EXAMINING THE PREMISE THAT MORAL EDUCATION IS THE "ROYAL ROAD" TO PREVENTIVE PSYCHOLOGY

 

A. Dr. Pomeroy's Scientific Study of Values and Morals for Some  25 Years is Supported Through His Active Association With The Robert S. Hartman Institute With Resources at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA 

 

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Organizational Activities (1982-Present):

 

Robert S. Hartman Institute with resources at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Participation in the activities of the None-Profit Institute of Basic and Applied Axiological Scientists specializing in the study of values employing philosopher Hartman's mathematical model of value and moral behavior

  www.hartmaninstitute.org 

 

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1998-1999: Vice President, Hartman Institute 

 

 

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1999-2006: President, Hartman Institute    

 

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2006 - Present:  Axiological Science Ambassador and President Emeritus, Hartman Institute 

 

 

B.  Introduction of Axiological Science and Psychology to The Field of Cross-National (Cross-Cultural) Research  

                                                                  drleonpomeroy@verizon.net 

 

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Pioneered Cross-Cultural/Cross-National Values Research Employing The Hartman's Mathematical Model and Derivative Value Profiling Methodology Known as Standard HVP-Valuemetrics.. Current Cross-National Data Base Includes: Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Indonesia, USA, and Canary Islands. Chinese and Czeck Republic Translations of the "Power Tool" of Axiological Science Under Development 2004.  

 

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Supervision of Doctoral Student (Gary Gallopin, Ph.D.) State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992-1999) Integrating Axiological Science and  Axiological Psychology  With Gallopin's Cultural Anthropology Studies in Russia. 

 

G. Gallopin's Doctoral Dissertation extended the work of Pomeroy and Bishop (1991) who published the first Axiological Investigation of Cross-National Values:  Employing The Hartman Value Profile (HVP). This Was the First Instance of HVP Based Data Acquisition and Analysis in the Field of Cultural Anthropology. (Published In:  Edwards, Rem, and Davis, John, Editors, Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Applications," University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1991. 

The Field of Axiological Science and its Product The Hartman Value Profile (HVP) was Formally Introduced to Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine by Pomeroy, Leon, et. al., "A New Tool for Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine ," VA Practitioner, July, 1985. 

Pomeroy Publishes a Book Summarizing the Findings of Empirical Tests and Measures Supporting Hartman's Mathematical Model of Value Phenomena and its Derivative Value Profiling Methodology, The Power Tool of The Hartman Value Profile (HVP). Pomeroy, Leon, "The New Science of Axiological Psychology," Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, Fall, 2005 

 

H. Summary of Current Professional Activities:

1.  Adjunct Professor; George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia (2005 - Present) 

2.  Adjunct Staff,  Member, Counseling Service, George Mason University at Fairfax, VA (2006-Present)

2.  Private Practice, Consulting, Training, Woodbridge, Virginia (2004 - Present)

3. Board Member and President Emeritus Robert S. Hartman Institute with Resources and Meetings at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Non-Profit Center for Basic and Applied Axiologists engaged in Basic Values and Morals Research).

 4. Consultant, Senior Citizens Care Group of New York (2001 - 2004) while writing "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" following retirement from VA Medical Center and Private Practice, New York City.  

5. Retirement, Senior Staff Psychologist, Outpatient Clinic, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 800 Poly Place, Brooklyn, New York. Retirement, Manhattan Upper East Side Private Practice to write "The New Science of Axiological Psychology," at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, followed it publication on relocation to Virginia in 2004 where Dr. Pomeroy established a private practice, consulting, teaching and university counseling.  Member, Virginia Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, Northern Virginia Society of Clinical Psychologists. 

6. Thirty Years Private Practice, Manhattan's Upper East Side. (1970-2000) as a Clinical Psychologist experiencing the challenge and excitement of working with clients only this great American city could product and against the background of intellectual revolutions coming out of a rising cognitive psychology destined to overthrow a psychoanalytic hegemony on Manhattan's Upper East Side; the Objectivism and Libertarianism of Ayn Rand coming out of the Murray Hill Section of Manhattan; the Scientology of R. H. coming out of Mid-Town Manhattan, and the gestation of early terrorist cells forming in Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. For a psychologist in practice Manhattan was where the action was in the closing decades of the 20th century and Dr. Pomeroy was there!!    

7. Consultant, Becker Coleman Associates, 250 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. Corporate/Industrial Psychology Consulting. (1973-1975).

8. Assistant, Associate Professor, Clinical Doctoral Program, Long Island University at Brooklyn, 1967-1973

 

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General Practice Details: Upper East Side, Manhattan With Clients from Various Occupations Including Wall Street Business Community, University Professors, Physicians, Nurses, Theater People, College Students, Pre-Marital Counseling, Divorce Counseling, Sexual Identity Cases, World War II POWs and World War II Veterans, Authors, Playwrights, Accountants, Media Personalities, Writers, and so forth...Clients From All Walks of Life as One Would Expect To Encounter in Such a Practice.  

Theoretical Orientation: Employing Several Treatment Modalities: Individual Psychotherapy, Group Therapy, Behavioral Medicine Approaches, Ericksonian Hypnosis,  Psychological Assessments, Axiological Assessment, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Several Yeas of Collaboration With Nathaniel Branden's Manhattan Intensives, Clinical Consultations at a Nursing Home/Assisted Living Facility, and so forth.   

U.S. Government Employment as Career Psychologist, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Outpatient Clinic, Brooklyn, New York Full Time; Private Practice, Manhattan's Upper East Side, Part Time. VAMC Duties Included: Individual Psychotherapy, General Group Therapy, POW Group Therapy,  Behavioral Medicine Interventions Including Ericksonian Hypnosis, Supervision, Psychology and Medical Interns, Specialization in Treatment of Former Prisoner's of War. Dr. Pomeroy Continues to Attend Brooklyn POW Luncheons at The Invitation of POWs.  

                                    

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Theoretical Orientation: Cognitive-Behavior Theory, Logotherapy, Behavior Modification, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Axiological Psychology Theory and Methods..   

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Research Note:           

Our Approach to Values Research Involves the : Integration of Cognitive Psychology with Philosopher Robert S. Hartman's Formal Theory of Axiology (Mathematical Model of Value Structures and Dynamics and Derivative Value Profiling Methodology).    

Dr. Pomeroy first became aware of Professor Hartman's unusual approach to the study of values while a clinical post doctoral intern at Manhattan's Albert Ellis Institute and Psychology Professor at Long Island University in the early 1970s. Involvement with establishing an international preventive medicine society resulted in deferring study of Hartman's method until the late 1970s at a time when Pomeroy sought to unpack the moral dimensions of health care and especially as they relate to patient compliance, self-reliance, motivation, and so forth. Pomeroy's first publication of empirical tests and measures supporting Hartman's work was in 1982 and is cited elsewhere. Hartman died in 1973. In 1983 at an international conference in Mexico celebrating Hartman's work Pomeroy presented five invited papers. Another international conference at Mexico City in 2001 saw the presentation of several more papers summarizing Pomeroy's continued work with empirical studies supporting Hartman's Mathematical Model and Value Profiling Methodology. 

Dr. Pomeroy has presented papers at the annual meetings of The Robert S. Hartman Institute at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for over twenty years. Much of these data now appear in his forthcoming book entitled "The New Science of Axiological Psychology," (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, Fall, 2005).  

drleonpomeroy@verizon.net 

No individual has gathered more empirical data in support of Hartman's work  (Hartman, R. S., "The Structure of Value", Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Ill., 1967) than Dr. Pomeroy. who is the first Licensed Clinical and Published Research Psychologist to do so. He took Hartman's work seriously when others failed to do so. Pomeroy's publication of extensive tests and measures supporting Hartman's mathematical model and value profiling methodology render the anecdotal empirically inescapable! The world is now challenged to take this work seriously including the historic transformation of Hartman's work into a science of values and morals (Axiological Science) followed by the reconstruction of psychology around values and morals as a role model for all social sciences. Pomeroy recognized the need to unpack the moral dimensions of medicine and psychology with scientific precision in order to reinvigorate society's need to promote self reliance and rational choices in the field of health care, the fastest growing failing business in the world! Finding inspiration in Hartman's pioneering studies, Pomeroy achieved what he calls the Hartman-Pomeroy Synthesis building on the Epictetus-Ellis synthesis resulting in "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" standing as a role model for the reconstruction of all pre-scientific social sciences! Dr. Pomeroy's programmatic values research was funded by income from his private practice as his busy career of teaching and clinical practice permitted. 

 

Value Profiling Methodology (HVP) permits the constructive of derivative Personality Profiles and Clinical Assessments for many and varied uses in health psychology and industrial psychology fields. An instrument that taps into value patterns held by individuals is an instrument commanding many and varied uses and for this reason it is referred to as "the power tool" of Axiological Psychology. 

 

Value profiles, generated by Hartman's method form the basis for useful, meaningful and valid personality profiles and clinical diagnoses. This valuecentric diagnostic yields what mmay be called an "action diagnosis" comfortably bridging testing and interventions in a seamless fashion. This assessment methodology is found valid in both clinical and industrial, personal world and work world, applications. The range of practical applications for this "power tool" is limited only by the practitioners imagination.  

                                                                            

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                                      III.  Invited Conference Presentations and Published Papers:              

Bishop, R.; Welch, A. J.; and Pomeroy, Leon, "Measure Extraction and Pattern Recognition In the Electroencephalogram (EEG)", Southwestern Institute of Electrical Engineers, Houston, Texas, April, 1967.

Pomeroy, Leon; Welch, A. J.; and Bishop, R., "A Chronic Depth Electrode Preparation for Gross EEG Monitoring", Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Houston, Texas, April, 1967.

Welch, A. J.; Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "EEG Detection of Avitaminosis B6", Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Computer Sciences, Houston, Texas, March, 1967.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Davis, John, "Computer Assisted Multivariate Analysis of the Concurrent Validity of the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)", Annual Meeting of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May, 1982.

Pomeroy, Leon, "A Psychologist Looks at Morality", Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Anaheim, California, August, 1983.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "Factor Analysis of the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)", First International Conference on Formal Axiology, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, October, 1983.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "Biomedical Correlations with the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)", First International Conference on Formal Axiology, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, October, 1983.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Schwartz, M. "Results of a Study of Stuttering Patients Employing the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)", First International Conference on Formal Axiology, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, October, 1983.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Forrest, Frank, "An Alternative Scoring Procedure for the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)", First International Conference on Formal Axiology, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, October, 1983.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Poetic Induction of the Quieting Response", Fourth Annual Conference of the National Association of Poetry Therapists: "Poetry Through the Ages". Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, April 13, 1984.

Pomeroy, Leon, "A Look at Combat Induced Dissociative Behavior", First International Conference on Multiple Personality and Dissociative States, Rush Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1984.

Pomeroy, Leon; Fox, E.; Bishop, R.; and Davis, John, "A Third Replication of HVP Biomedical Correlations", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May, 1984.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Cirillo, Jean, "Some Clinical Impressions of Dissociative Behavior: A Look at the Splitting Defense", Second International Conference on Multiple Personality and Dissociative States, Rush Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1985.

Pomeroy, Leon, "An Introduction to Behavioral Axiology: A New Orientation in Psychology", Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, March, 1985.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Psychoaxiology", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May, 1985.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Bioaxiology", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May, 1985.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Seminar on Behavioral Axiology",  South Oaks Hospital, Long Island, New York, November, 1985.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Introduction to New Thinking in Cognitive Psychology", Faculty, Student Three Day Seminar, University of Indonesia at Jakarta, December, 1985.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "Further Validation Studies of Hartman's Valuemetrics", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May, 1986.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "Results of Further Validation Efforts With the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May, 1987.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "Cross-Cultural Studies Employing the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, September, 1989.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "A Valuecentric Approach to Clinical Assessment for Cognitive-Behavior Oriented Clinicians", World Congress on Mental Health Counseling, Keystone, Colorado, June 14-16, 1990.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "Introduction to Behavioral Axiology, Part II: Validation of Hartman's Valuemetrics and Value Science Assumptions as a New Orientation in Psychology", 22nd International Congress of Applied Psychology, July 25-27, 1990, Kyoto, Japan.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Introduction to Valuecentric Cognitive Psychology", Second Three Day Seminar for Faculty and Students, University of Indonesia at Jakarta, August, 1990.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Ellis, Art, "Value Theory and Psychology", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 25-27, 1990.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Bishop, R., "Cross-Cultural, Cross-National Study of Values and Valuation Update",  Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 25-27, 1990.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Case Histories of Valuecentric Testing",  Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 10-12, 1991.

Pomeroy, Leon; and Gallopin, Gary, "Preliminary Russian Data and the Study of Values", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 10-12, 1991.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Values Clarification and Ethno-Cultural Issues", 19th Annual Teaching Day, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, June 12, 1992. (Leon Pomeroy, Ph.D., Chairperson, Ethnocultural Workshop).

Pomeroy, Leon, "Behavioral Axiology, Part III: Introduction to a New Cognitive Science for Psychology, Social Scientists and Business Applications", Two Day Seminar Given Before the Faculty and Students of St. Petersburg University: Invitation from Professor Sergei S. Voitenko, Director: September 2-4, 1992.  St. Petersburg, Russia.

Pomeroy, Leon; Bishop, R.; and Gallopin, Gary, "Cross-Cultural Behavioral Axiology: USA vs. Japan vs. Russia", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1-3, 1992.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Forms of Valuation: AXIAL vs. IT Valuation",  Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1-3, 1992.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Psychology of Values", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October, 1993.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Some Theoretical Notes", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 5-7, 1995.

Dragounskia, Lioudmila; and Pomeroy, Leon, "Clinical Psychology, Axiology, and the Problem of Psychodiagnostics", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 5-7, 1995.

Pomeroy, Leon, "N=1: A Twin Study Employing the HVP", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 3-5, 1996.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Former Prisoner of War (POW) Data: A Further Validation of the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)-Based Valuemetrics in Psychological Assessment", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 3-5, 1996.

Pomeroy, Leon; Gallopin, Gary; and Bishop, R., "Planting the Tree of Formal Axiology on Russian Soil: A Comparison of Russian and Ukranian Value Dynamics Employing the HVP", Annual Conference of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 16-19, 1997.

Gallopin, Gary; and Pomeroy, Leon, "Our Experiences Collecting Russian Data", Annual Meeting of the Hartman Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 16-19, 1997.

Pomeroy, Leon, "Values and Morals Research", Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, February 20, 1998.