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Kevin Gallagher

Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology

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Education

  • Ph.D., Critical Psychology, Point Park University
  • MBA, Health Systems Administration, Point Park University
  • M.A., Clinical-Community Psychology, Point Park University
  • B.A., Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Courses Taught

  • Theoretical Foundations for Psychology Majors
  • Theoretical Foundations of Psychology for Non-Majors
  • Theories of Personality
  • Psychology of Abusive Behaviors
  • The Psychology of Evil and Human Destruction
  • Substances and Addiction in Social Context

Background

Kevin Gallagher, Ph. D., is a visiting assistant professor of psychology, focusing on Critical Psychology, after having started as an adjunct at Point Park in 2016. In addition to his academic work, he has also spent time in the field with many different community mental and physical health programs, including four years with the award-winning street medicine program, Operation Safety Net. While with Mad in America as a science writer, Gallagher's writing focused on addiction and substance use, critical psychology and psychiatry and the psychology of masculinity. 

Publications

  • Gallagher, K. (2020-2021) "An American History of Drugs and Addiction." Ten part series, 1-10. Mad in America.
  • Gallagher, K. (2020, April 4) "Social Determinants of health and the continued individualization of suffering." Mad In America.
  • Peele, S and Gallagher, K. (2017) "Addiction-Proofing Your Family: Living life fully, and growing into a mature person, is a child's, an adolescent's, a young adult's best antidote to addiction." Paperback Edition. Amazon Publishing.
  • Robbins, B.D., Karter, J.M., and Gallagher, K. (2015). "Big pharma(kos): The stigmatized scapegoat of medicalization and the ethics of psychiatric diagnosis." Psychotherapy Section Review 56, 84-96.
  • Gallagher, K. (2015, January 12) "Why America is afraid of people like Audrey conn." Substance.com. 
  • Gallagher, K. (2014, July 6) "The social construction of the disease of addiction." TheFix.com.

Presentations

  • "Mad in America Information Session." Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2025.
  • "Existentialism, Addiction and Surviving the (Post)human Condition." Redefining Mental Health and Wellness Beyond the Medical Model Symposium, 2024.
  • "Can Psychiatric Diagnoses Operate as Scapegoat Mechanisms." Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2024.
  • "Bridging Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry: How Mad in America is Pushing for a New Paradigm for Mental Health." Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2024.
  • "The Addict, the Zombie, and Survival: Moving to a Post-Human Ontology of Addiction." Psychology and the Other Conference, 2023.
  • "The Addict, The Zombie and Survival." The Annual Conference for the Society of Humanistic Psychology, 2022.
  • "Humanistic Themes in Anarcho-Communitarianism: Implications for Humanistic-Community Psychology." The Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 2015.
  • "Anarchism and Phenomenology as Derridean Supplements." The Annual Conference for the Society of Humanistic Psychology, 2015.

Professional Memberships

  • Society for Philosophical and Theoretical Psychology, Division 24 of the APA
  • Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the APA
  • Pennsylvania Psychological Association