Peter Zachar 1 Peter Zachar Department of Psychology Auburn University Montgomery P.O. Box 244023 Montgomery, AL 36124 (334) 244-3311 [email protected] LICENSURE Licensed Psychologist in the State of Alabama, #1212. EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University. Pre-doctoral internship at the University Counseling Service, University of Iowa. Master of Arts in Psychology from the Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University. Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy (double major) with a graduation (maxima cum laude) from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa Academic Emphasis PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, AUBURN UNIVERSITY MONTGOMERY Assistant Professor (1995-2000). Associate Professor (2000-2005). Professor (2005-current). Department Chair (2003-2011). Interim Dean, School of Sciences (fall semester 2014). Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences (January 2015-May 2018). Associate Dean, College of Sciences (May 2018- ) Courses taught include undergraduate: history of psychology, research methods, psychological measurement, abnormal psychology, biological psychology and introduction to psychology, and graduate: history of psychology, introduction to psychotherapy, ethics, objective psychological assessment, projective psychological assessment, psychometrics, object relations theory, personality theories, evolution & psychology, abnormal psychology, and biological psychology. I have also taught the history class in an online format. Peter Zachar 2 PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE Lecturer in psychology (1994-1995). Research Assistant (1988-1991). Teaching Assistant (1987-1988). UNIVERSITY COUNSELING SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Taught academic study skills class (Fall 1991). PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, LORAS COLLEGE, Dubuque Iowa Teaching Assistant (1983-1986). CENTER FOR BUSINESS CONSULTATION, LORAS COLLEGE, Dubuque, Iowa Statistical Analyst (1986). Wrote statistical programs for consultation contract with community agencies. PUBLICATIONS peer-reviewed journals (includes articles and invited commentaries) Zachar, P. (forthcoming). Diagnostic nomenclatures in the mental health professions as public policy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Zachar, P. (2018). Quantitative classification as (re-)descriptive psychopathology. World Psychiatry, 17, 294-295. Zachar, P, First, M. B., and Kendler, K. S. (2017). The bereavement exclusion debate in the DSM-5: A history. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 890-906. Zachar, P., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). The philosophy of nosology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 13, 49-71. Zachar, P. (2017). The mind-independent world, metaphysical heuristics, the nature of psychiatric disorder, and the relationship between psychiatric classification and psychopathology: response to the commentaries. AAPP Bulletin, 24, 36-55. Zachar, P. (2017). Mental disorder, methodology, and meaning, Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry, 24, 45-48. Zachar, P., Krueger, R. F., Kendler, K. S. (2016). Personality disorder in the DSM-5: An oral history. Psychological Medicine, 46, 1-10. Peter Zachar 3 Zachar, P. (2015). Pragmatism and evidence-based medicine: A role for “objectivity” and “reality” in our vocabulary. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 22, 67-70. Zachar, P. (2015). Grief, depression, and the DSM-5: a review and reflections upon the debate. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, 18, 540-544. Zachar, P. (2015). Psychiatric disorders: natural kinds made by the world or practical kinds made by us? World Psychiatry, 14, 288-290. Zachar, P. (2015). Popper, Meehl, and progress: The evolving concept of risky test in the science of psychopathology. Psychological Inquiry, 26, 279-285. Zachar, P. & First, M. B. (2015). Transitioning to a dimensional model of personality disorders in DSM 5.1 and beyond. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 28, 66-72. Zachar, P. (2014). Five uses for philosophy in the science of emotion. Emotion Review, 6, 324-326. Zachar, P. & Kendler, K. S. (2014). A Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders history of premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 202, 346-352. Zachar, P. (2013). Why the one and the many will not go away. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 20, 131-136. Zachar P. (2013). Abandoning official psychiatric nosologies: A cure that may be worse than the disease: A commentary on Markon. Journal of Personality Disorders, 27, 594-599. Zachar, P. (2012). Evidence-based medicine and modernism: Still better than the alternatives. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 10, 313-316. Zachar, P. (2012). A partial (and speculative) reconstruction of the biological basis of emotionality. Emotion Review, 4, 249-250 Zachar, P. & Kendler, K. S. (2012). The removal of Pluto from the class of planets and homosexuality from the class of psychiatric disorders: A comparison. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 7 (4) http://www.peh-med.com/ Zachar, P. and Lobello, S. G. (2012). A game for every kind of umpire (Almost): Commentary on Allen Frances’ baseball analogy, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 7 (3) http://www.peh-med.com/ Zachar. P. (2012). Is incremental validity too incremental in the long run? Commentary on Stoyanov, Machamer, and Schaffner. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18, 149- Peter Zachar 4 154. Zachar, P. (2011). The clinical nature of personality disorders: Responding to the neo- Szaszian critique. Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry, 18, 191-202. Kendler, K. S., Zachar, P., & Craver, C. (2011). What kinds of things are psychiatric disorders? Psychological Medicine, 41, 1143-1150. Zachar, P. (2010). Has there been conceptual progress in the science of emotion? Emotion Review, 2, 381-382. Zachar, P. and Potter, N.N. (2010). Valid moral appraisal and valid personality disorder. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 17,131-142. Zachar, P. and Potter, N. N. (2010). Personality disorders. Mad, bad – or both? Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 17, 101-117. Zachar, P. (2010). The abandonment of latent variables: Philosophical considerations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 177-178. Zachar, P. (2010). Defending the validity of pragmatism in the classification of emotion. Emotion Review, 2, 113-116. Zachar, P. (2009). Psychiatric comorbidity: More than a Kuhnian anomaly. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 16, 13-22. Potter, N. N., & Zachar, P. (2008). Vice, mental disorder and the role of underlying pathological processes. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 15, 27-29. Zachar, P. (2008). A tryptic on affective science: Response to the commentary. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 28, 444-453. Smith, B., Ray, G. E., Stefurak, T., & Zachar, P. (2007). College student evaluations of parent- child disciplinary situations. Journal of Family Violence, 22, 757-767. Zachar, P., & Kendler, K. S. (2007). Psychiatric disorders: A conceptual taxonomy. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 557-565. LoBello, S. & Zachar, P. (2007). Psychological test sales and internet auctions: Ethical considerations for dealing with obsolete or unwanted test materials. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38, 68-70. Leong, F. T. L., Zachar, P., Conant, L. & Tolliver, D. (2007). Career specialty preferences among psychology majors: Cognitive processing styles associated with scientist and Peter Zachar 5 practitioner interests. The Career Development Quarterly, 55, 328-338. Platt, T., Zachar, P., Ray, G. E., Underhill, A. T., & LoBello, S. G. (2007). Does Wechsler intelligence scale administration and scoring proficiency improve during assessment training. Psychological Reports, 100, 547-555. Zachar, P. (2006). The classification of emotion and scientific realism. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 26, 120-138 Zachar, P. (2006). Pathological narcissism and its relationship to empathy and transcendence. The Pluralist, 1, 89-105. Manning, K., Zachar, P. Ray, G.. & LoBello, S. (2006). Research design courses and the scientist and practitioner interests of psychology majors. Teaching of Psychology, 33, 194-196. Zachar, P. (2006). Les troubles psychiatriques et le modèle des espèces pratiques. Philosophiques, 33, 81-98. Norensberg, B. & Zachar, P. (2005). Neurotic styles and the five factor model of personality. Graduate Faculty Psychology Bulletin, 3, 79-90. Zachar, P. (2002). The practical kinds model as a pragmatist theory of classification. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 9, 219-227. Cleary, D., Ray, G. E., LoBello, S., & Zachar, P. (2002). Children’s perceptions of close peer relationships: Quality, congruence, and meta-perceptions. Child Study Journal, 32, 179- 192. Belk, M., LoBello, S., Ray, G., & Zachar, P. (2002). WISC-III administration, clerical, and scoring errors made by student examiners. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 20, 292-304. Zachar, P. & Bartlett, S. (2001). Basic emotions and their biological substrates: A nominalistic interpretation. Consciousness and Emotion, 2, 189-221. Forman, S. and Zachar, P. (2001). Cross-cultural adjustment of international officers during professional military education in the United States, Military Psychology,13, 117-128. Zachar, P. (2001). Precis of Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry: A Philosophical Analysis. Psycoloquy [On-line]. Available: www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?12.023 Zachar, P. (2000). Folk taxonomies should not have essences either. Philosophy, Psychiatry,