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About Dr. Linda James Myers

Professor Emerita The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences
Department of African American and African Studies
College of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Board of Directors, Marcus Garvey Institute for Human Development
A Global Evolution Expanding Human Consciousness
Director, Optimal Psychology Pillar II

Former Dean, Graduate School of Psychology, New College of California
Founder & Executive Director, The Center for Optimal Thought

Developed the theory of Optimal Psychology
Created Belief Systems Analysis psychotherapeutic/ psychoeducational approach
Author of 3 single-authored and 2 co-edited books; 25 book chapters; 50+ refereed journal articles
Work used by mental health practitioners nationally and internationally with great success over 25 years

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Cultural Insights for Redemption of America’s Soul

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Oct 19, 20227 min read

Cultural Insights for Redemption of America’s Soul

As National Black History Month 2022 ends and Women’s History Month begins in the midst of an unrelenting systemic racism pandemic and...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jan 5, 20221 min read

Enhancing Human Development

Going Forward, What the world needs now is connection to global evolution of human consciousness. Such a vehicle exits in the form of the...

Araminta’s Place: Calling Forth All the Good!

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jul 14, 20213 min read

Araminta’s Place: Calling Forth All the Good!

My beloved Black women sisters, you may not know this but even the cosmos is now aligning in order to ensure your to return to your...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Aug 11, 20203 min read

Araminta’s Place: Calling Forth All the Good!

Black Again Why does the mere mention of Black raise such disdain, ire, and fear in the hearts of so many… After all it is the source...

Araminta’s Place: Calling Forth All of the Good!

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Aug 4, 20205 min read

Araminta’s Place: Calling Forth All of the Good!

One of my former students suggested I post for the FB family a description of my research and work as a producer of psychological...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jul 28, 20201 min read

Araminta’s Place: Calling Forth All the Good!

In confronting our historical realties, particularly as non-immigrant Africans in America (NIAAs), we find there are at least two that...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jul 21, 20203 min read

Araminta’s Place: Calling Forth All the Good!

Today I want t share with you a new movement underway led by Mr. Ronald Hummons. You may have read his book entitled Diamond, an...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jul 12, 20202 min read

Greetings, my FaceBook Nation Friends

https://he.kendallhunt.com/…/understanding-afrocentric… Greetings, my FaceBook Nation Friends, I recently learned my first book, although...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jul 7, 20206 min read

Araminta’s Place : Calling forth all the good!

America’s conscience and that of the world was jarred by the ruthless murder of George Floyd by four police officers paid to protect and...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jun 30, 20203 min read

Araminta’s Place–Calling Forth All the Good!

We know we must seek to liberate our minds and illuminate our souls in the face of the 400 years of mental bondage, conceptual...

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jun 23, 20207 min read

Araminta’s Place—Calling Forth All the Good

Culturally-Grounded Conceptualizing and Contending with COVID19 I appreciate having been asked a few months ago by the current President...

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD SAY THAT WE DO NOT KNOW

Linda James Myers, Ph.D.

Jul 12, 20132 min read

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD SAY THAT WE DO NOT KNOW

For those who would say that we do not know what happened in the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman interaction, please tell them to...

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