Dr. Maurice Stanley Friedman:

Dr. Friedman is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, where he taught from 1973 to 1991, and is Co-Director of the Institute for Dialogical Psychotherapy in San Diego, where he teaches in the two-year training program. From 1967 to 1973 he was Professor of Religion at Temple University, Philadelphia, where he was the Director of the Ph.D. Programs in Religion and Literature and in Religion and Psychology. From 1954 to 1966 he was on the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the New School for Social Research, New York City. From 1951 to 1964 he was Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, Washington University (St. Louis), Ohio State University, Columbia University, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion--Cincinatti, Pendle Hill (the Quaker Study Center at Wallingford, Pa.), Union Theological Seminary (New York City), the Washington (D.C.) School of Psychiatry, the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology (New York City), Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Vassar College, the California School of Professional Psychology-San Diego, the University of Hawaii, International College, Los Angeles, William Lyon University and American Commonwealth University, San Diego, Summit University, New Orleans, and is Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco.

Among other books Professor Friedman is the author of Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue; Problematic Rebel: Melville, Dostoievsky, Kafka, Camus; The Worlds of Existentialism: A Critical Reader; To Deny Our Nothingness: Contemporary Images of Man; Touchstones of Reality; Martin Buber's Life and Work (3 volumes); The Healing Dialogue in Psychotherapy; Martin Buber and the Eternal; Abraham Joshua Heschel and Elie Wiesel; A Dialogue with Hasidic Tales; Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber; Dialogue and the Human Image: Beyond Humanistic Psychology; Religion and Psychology: A Dialogical Approach; A Heart of Wisdom: Religion and Human Wholeness; Intercultural Dialogue and the Human Image: Maurice Friedman at the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts;
The Affirming Flame: A Poetics of Meaning. Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber has been published in Spanish, German, and Japanese translations.

Maurice Friedman holds an S.B. magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University (1943), an M.A. in English from Ohio State (1947), a Ph.D. in the History of Culture from the University of Chicatgo (1950), an honorary LL.D. from the University of Vermont (1961), a Doctor of Humane Letters from the Professional School of Psychological Studies, San Diego (1986), and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (1998). In 1983 he received an M.A. in Psychology from International College. In 1984-85 he was San Diego State University's first University Research Lecturer. In 1985 Professor Friedman received the Jewish National Book Award for biography for his Martin Buber's Life and Work. He was Senior Fulbright Lecturer, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1987-1988, and in January-February 1992 he gave seminars and lectures at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi. Annual Maurice Friedman Lecture in Modern Jewish Thought, Lipinsky Institute of Judaic Studies, San Diego State Univ., 1992- .