Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.

Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist (PSY11404) practicing in Los Angeles, and a former pupil and protege of existential analyst Dr. Rollo May.  In addition to specializing in providing existential and depth psychologically oriented psychotherapy to adult patients for the past 35 years, Dr. Diamond is a former member of the Forensic Panel for the Santa Clara County Superior Court and Approved Panel of Psychiatrists and Psychologists for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County (Criminal Divisions), conducting forensic evaluations and serving as an expert witness in various criminal cases. Dr. Diamond is presently on the clinical faculty in the Departments of Graduate Psychology at both Argosy University and Ryokan College (Los Angeles), has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute-Zurich (Switzerland), John F. Kennedy University, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and was Assistant Clinical Professor and Training Clinic Director at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (now Palo Alto University). He is the author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity, with a Foreword by Rollo May (1996), and has contributed chapters to the bestselling anthology Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (1991), Spirituality and Psychological Health (2005), Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil (2006), and the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (2009). Dr. Diamond is the co-founder and director of the Existential Psychotherapy Center of Southern California, serves on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today. He currently serves as Supervising Psychologist for graduate clinical psychology students at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in downtown Los Angeles and Westwood, in addition to private practice.