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Dr. Paul M. Camic is Clinical Research Director in the Clinical Psychology Programme and Consultant Clinical Psychologist (health psychology specialty) in the East Sussex County NHS Trust.  He was formally on the faculty at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where he directed the health psychology programme, and at Northwestern University Medical School (Chicago) in the clinical psychology program. He took his B.A. (honours) in social geography at Clark University, a masters degree in psychology at Tufts University, and his Ph.D. in psychology at Loyola University in Chicago. He completed his internship and post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the University of Chicago Hospitals.

His clinical interests include short term and longer-term psychodynamic therapy, and CBT. In community psychology his research has examined the social and emotional climate of state supported schools and the development of partnerships between universities and local schools. In clinical health psychology his interests include gastroenterology, cardiology, oncology, and chronic pain. 

In addition to these more traditional areas in psychology he also has longstanding interests in how psychology and the arts might intersect with health care to form new intervention and research possibilities. He has presented several papers and conducted workshops on the biological origins of the arts, incorporating the arts into the curriculum of undergraduate and postgraduate students in clinical psychology, and the use of the arts in cultural reuse and community development.

In June 2006 he successfully applied to become a Reader in Clinical and Health Psychology.

Recent publications include the following:

Camic, P.M. (1999). Clinical training and the arts. Psychology and The Arts- American Psychological Association Division 10 Newsletter, summer.

Camic, P.M. (1999). Expanding treatment possibilities for chronic pain through expressive arts therapies. In C. Malchioti (Ed.). Medical art therapy with adults. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Camic, P.M. (2000). Incorporating the arts into graduate training programs in clinical psychology and medicine. Liberal arts and the education of artists: Conference proceedings. New York:  School of the Visual Arts Press.

Camic, P.M. & Wilson, L.E. (2001). Building and blending: Creating places for the arts in psychotherapy. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 2.

Camic, P.M. (2001). Creating images, sound, movement, enactment, word: The arts in clinical training. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 2.

Camic, P.M., Murphy, M., Smith, J.C., Johnson-Odim, C. (2002). Growth of a partnership. In D. Jones & G. Normie (Eds.) Life's rich patterns: Cultural diversity and the education of adults. Boston, Lincolnshire, UK: SCUTREA & Pilgrim College.

Cafasso, L.L., Camic, P.M. & Rhodes, J.E. (2002). Middle school climate examined and altered by teacher-directed intervention assesses through qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Research in Middle Level Education, 25 (2), 1-17.

Camic, P.M. (2003). Expanding, shrinking, expanding. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 3

Camic, P.M., Rhodes, J E. & Yardley, L. (2003). Naming the stars: Integrating qualitative methods into psychological research. In P.M. Camic, J.E. Rhodes & L. Yardley (Eds.), Qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design. Washington: American Psychological Association.

Camic, P.M. & Cafasso, L. (2003). Enhancing Student Self-Assessment Competencies through Academic Portfolios and Student-Led Parent Conferences, Education-Line: British Education Index
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003150.htm

Camic, P.M. & Rhodes, J.E. (2003) Blending and Bending Paradigms in Large Scale Multi-site Educational Research. Education-Line: British Education Index
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003194.htm

Chamberlain, K., Camic, P.M., & Yardley, L. (2004). Qualitative analysis of experience: Grounded theory and case studies. In D. Marks & L. Yardley  (Eds.). Research methods for clinical and health psychology. London: Sage

Camic, P.M. & Gaugh, L. (2004). Gastrointestinal Evaluation & Treatment in Psychology. In P.M. Camic & S. J. Knight (Eds.) Clinical handbook of health psychology: A practical guide to effective interventions, second edition. Cambridge, MA, Toronto & Gottingen: Hogrefe & Huber

Camic, P.M. (2004). Assemblage as Rorschach: Empirical hermeneutic aesthetics and the art spectator. In J P. Frois, P. Andrade & J.F. Marques (Eds.). Art and Science. Lisbon: Gulbenkian Foundation

Rhodes, J.E. & Camic, P.M. (2006). Building bridges between universities and middle-schools: A teacher-centered collaboration. Forthcoming in Educational and Child Psychology

Camic, P. M. More than words: Making use of the arts in clinical and counseling psychology training. In I.A. Serlin (Ed.) Whole Person Psychology: Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies. Westport, CT: Praeger. In press