Prof. Thomas Plante

Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor, professor of psychology, and by courtesy, religious studies and the Jesuit School of Theology, at Santa Clara University. He also is director of the Applied Spirituality Institute and a scholar in residence of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University as well. He is also an emeritus adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and maintains a private clinical practice in Menlo Park, CA. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of the APA journal, Spirituality in Clinical Practice. He has published 29 books including, most recently, Living Ethically in an Unethical World and Spiritually Informed Therapy. He has published over 250 professional journal articles and book chapters as well. He has been frequently featured in most major national and international media outlets such as CNN, Time Magazine, NBC Nightly News, and the PBS News Hour. He received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Brown University, an MA and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas, and completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in clinical and health psychology at Yale University.