Mark Yama
Associate Professor, Licensed Psychologist
Student Health Center 217
Department of Psychology & Communication
University of Idaho MS 3043
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3043
Mark Yama's teaching interests are in the areas of history of psychology, abnormal psychology, and the psychology of emotion. His research interests are in the nature of spiritual experience, and implications for psychology as a science.
Courses
- PSYC 311: Abnormal Psychology
- PSYC 415: History and Systems of Psychology
- PSYC 456: Psychology of Emotion
Dr. Yama received his PhD from Indiana University in 1975 in the area of sensory psychology. Following this he was a postdoctoral fellow, first at the University of Iowa, and then at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982 he made a career shift and retrained as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin. Then followed the vehicle one year clinical internship, work as a director of a social service agency, and licensure as a psychologist. He came to the University of Idaho in 1987 and has taught classes in many topics, most recently history of psychology, abnormal psychology, and the psychology of emotion. In addition to academia, he has been involved in clinical practice, most centrally with chronic pain patients. His recent interest concerns spiritual experience, especially as found in psychotherapy patients. He is the author of The Spirit Transcendent: Exploring the Extraordinary in Human Experience.
Mark Yama’s research interests are in philosophy of psychology and spirituality.
- Yama, M. (2020). The spirit transcendent: Exploring the extraordinary in human experience. Toplight/McFarland Press.