Gary Fireman, Ph.D.

Chair of Psychology
Professor and Chair of Psychology
M.A., Ph.D. Long Island University (Clinical Psychology).

Contact Information

Suffolk University
Department of Psychology
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
Donahue 610
617-305-6368 (Office)
617-367-2924 (Fax)
gfireman@suffolk.edu

 

Courses Taught

PSYCH 408 Senior Seminar: History and Systems of Psychology
PSYCH 738 Clinical Practicum and Ethics IA
PSYCH 774 Child Therapy

Specialty Areas

Developmental psychopathology, child and adolescent treatment, and social competence.

My research interest is in the role of emotional complexity, intensity and experience in relation to judgment, social reasoning, personal narrative, and sleep quality. I am particularly interested in applying these research concerns to understanding at-risk children and adolescents and the prevention of psychopathology. Specifically, the high risk youth include children and adolescents who are identified as aggressive, rejected, victimized, and as having poor emotional regulation and limited pro-social skills. I am also interested in emotion functioning in relation to sleep quality, nightmares and disturbed dreaming, and related cognitive processes. My clinical interests include child, adolescent, and adult therapy; family therapy; psychological and psycho-educational assessment.

Selected Publications

Fireman, G.D. & Kose, G. (in press). Perspective Taking. In E.H. Sandberg & B.L. Spritz (Eds.), A clinician’s guide to normal cognitive development in childhood. New York, NY: Routledge.

Levin, R., Lantz, E., Fireman, G.D., & Spendlove, S. (in press). The relationship between disturbed dreaming and somatic distress: A prospective investigation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Larsen, J.T., To, Y. M. & Fireman, G. (2007). Children’s understanding and experience of mixed emotions. Psychological Science, 18, 186-191.

Dempsey, J. P., Fireman, G. D. & Wang, E. (2006). Transitioning out of peer victimization in School Children: Gender and Behavioral Characteristics. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 28, 271-280.

Fireman, G., McVay, T. & Flanagan, O. (Eds.). (2003). Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain. NY: Oxford University Press.