Karl Jackson:  

Current Life: I live in a modest sized house that my unmarried mate (Patricia Roeller) and I had built in 2005. I enjoy local friends and activities like Theatre, Eating Out, Reading, Exercising at the local Health Plex, and Personal Development via Reflection, Courses, etc., as well as interacting with my 4 daughters (aged 47, 45, 26, and 23), when that works out; which isn't as often as I would like. I have a small private psychology practice; and enjoy learning new things professinally and in general. l want to reconnect with people from earlier in my life, so I joined Classmates.com and Reunion.com; and want to attend reunions as appropriate. Quick Overview of Education: Went to School in Denton Texas through 9th grade (June 1956), moved to Normandy High School in St. Louis MO area for a year, finsihed High Scool at Ferguson High (also in St Louis area) in 1959. Started at MU (Misouri University) in Columbia Missouri in 1959, where I attended through 1960. Resumed college at Wasington University, St. Louis in 1965, graduating in Psychology in 1967. Continued there in Graduate school in Psychology and Education, with side Trainings at NTL (Appled Behavioral Science-OD), in Motivation Training, in Interpersonal Communication, in Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and in Gestalt Therapy and Bioenrgetics, completing Ph.D. in Psychology in 1975. History Through High School: I am from Texas, born in Houston in 1941, living in Dallas through the age of 6 or so, and them moving to Denton. I lived and went to school in Denton Texas through the 9th grade (Junior High), where I was active in Sports and in Band; and was a good student. I lost my friends and lifestyle when our family moved to the St. Louis area; and still am pulled back to and hanker to see my old Texian friends who went on to graduate from Denton High. in 1958 and 1959. I was a Boy Scout in those Denton days, too (Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow, and such); and enjoyed that, so I continued as an Explorer Scout and Assistant Scoutmaster during my High School Sophomore year at Normandy High School where people initially called me Tex and I played Football and was on the track team. I was, initially, quite discombobulated by certain aspects of the big city (St. Louis); but I loved the Theatre, Symphony, Art Museum, Libraries, etc., as well as the hustle and bustle of the big city (Denton had been maybe 20,000 versus much more than 1,000,000 in the St. Louis area). I much enjoyed my year at Normandy, so I'm following up with the class that I would have graduated with if I had continued there, the class of 1959. After my year at Normandy, I moved to Ferguson. I then finished High School at Ferguson/Florrisant High and graduated with the class of 1959, after starting at MU for the Winter/Spring Semester beginning late in 1958 or early in 1959. History between High School (1959) & Ph.D. (1975): Quite a complicated and also rich period in my life, detailed in various places below. The latter portion of that period is partially discussed in the education section, below. First marriage and family: I married Judith Fuller in Columbia Missouri, and had two daughters, Cynthia (5-19-62) and Lauri (5-20-64). They have both grown up to be wonderful people; and I am immensly proud of both of them. More about them later. The latter portion of that period is partially discussed in the next section. Professional and Profession-Related: I'm a Clinical/Medical/Consulting Psychologist, with extensive training and interests in addressing Adult Trauma, Chronic Pain, ADHD, and Management of Chronic Medical Conditions. I also address and work with Marital and Relationship Issues; Habit Change via Hypnosis, Stress Management, and Interpersonal Communication. I do Group Workshops and Trainings in Interpersonal Communication, Group Facilitation, Motivation Development, Self-Hypnosis, etc.; as well as supervision of Pre and Post liscensure Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, etc. . I have evolved my own approach to enhancing Interpersonal Communication for Couples, Families, and Individuals. I was particularly helped with this, by my one of my four most significant professional mentors, Marshall Rosenberg, (Ph.D.) who subsequently codified much of his work in an approach that he now calls "Nonviolent Communication." "Motivation Training," as refined by Dr. Dennis Shea and I for Teachers had been based partly on what we learned from our main Mentor in that arena, Richard DeCharms (Ph.D.), who was and remains important to me. We also, in that area, appreciated the learnings and support provided by David McClelland, Ph.D., and especially Manohar Nadkarni, who was a Trainer from India working at that time for Dave as an Assitant Professor in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard. My third important area of Mentor based training was in Human Relations Training (GSPDP, NTL, a three year program to train Trainers and Organizational Development Professionals). This evolved into much work on my part in designing and implementing various Laboratory Traning, Experiential Learning, and Organizational Development work with a wide range of types and locations of organizations and groups. Most of this work was performed on a consulting basis during the years between 1970 and 1978; but has occurered occasionally since then. My Main Mentor in that domain there was Don Cole, although Jerry Riesel and many others from NTL were also helpful. My Fourth important area of Mentor-based training was with Dr. James Lefeber and several others focussing on Psychotherpy, especially Gestalt Therapy, Bionergetics, and Medical Hypnosis. Jim lived in Riverside California where I had gone in 1974 to be a visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department (also doing lots of work in the Education Department) at the University of California, Riverside. Jim (Dr. Lefeber) was a protege' of Fritz Perls; and I was delighted with Getsalt Therapy. Jim helped me also to develop my specialty at that time in what I then called Psychphysiological Disorders, and to start using a combination of Clinical Psychology and Laboratory Training skills to do psychotherapy groups, with which I became very proficient evolving, over time into psychodrama, and eventually to running the adult side of a major psychiatric hospital (Charter Grove, Corona, California) for several years beginning in 1979. I was in private practice as a psychologist in Riverside, California for the years between 1977 and 1989, during which time I began to get serious about understanding and treating what we then called Multiple Personality Disorders. That led me to the job at Kellgue Psychiatric Hospital doing groups for trauma clients, and ultimatly to running the adult half of the successor Hospital, Charter Grove. During that time (1977-1989) I had my second set of two daughters, Ashley in 1982 and Morgan in 1985, with my wife Mary Sanders, Ph.D. also a psychologist. Ashley and Morgan are wonderful; and I am very proud of them. My previous two daughters, Cynthia and Lauri had been born within another marriage in the early 1960s (see above). I also bought and much improved my first energy efficient house during those years, experimenting with Solar Heating an "Environator" and several...Expand for more