Jefferson Singer Headshot

Jefferson Singer. Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Connecticut College in New London, CT. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has spent the past two decades researching emotionally significant memories and their role in personality. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, which funded his research on self-defining memories at Durham University in Durham, England...

Read Full Biography >>

Department of Psychology
Connecticut College
New London, CT 06320
(860) 439-2343
Contact Jefferson Singer at jasin@conncoll.edu

Jefferson A. Singer Ph.D.

Upcoming Events

  • Nov. 1st, 2pm - Filming for "For the Record", television show hosted by Ann Karrick. WHPX, Channel 26, New London. I will appear on the show on Dec. 2 and Dec. 5th between 6 and 7am.
  • Nov. 6th, 10 pm - Appearing in episode of weekly television series, "Made," on MTV.
  • Nov. 30th, 4:30pm, Colloquium at Smith College, Northampton, MA
  • January 25th, 8am, Invited Symposium on Autobiographical Memory and the Self, Self and Identity Pre-Conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN

Memories that Matter: How to Use Self-Defining Memories to Understand & Change Your Life

This book offers a simple, step-by-step program that will guide you to identify and explore the memories that define the real you. With nothing more than a journal, a pen, and a willingness to look deeply into your own personal story, this book will help you make your past into a prologue for a better future.

Personality and Psychotherapy: Treating the Whole Person

“This landmark volume offers a new vision for 21st-century psychology; a vision which, like the book itself, is rigorous, empathic and deeply committed to exploring the mysteries of a person’s life,” said Dan McAdams, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University.

The Remembered Self: Emotion and Memory in Personality

The Remembered Self Cover

In The Remembered Self Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey persuasively argue that memories are an important window into one's life story, revealing characteristic moods, motives, and thinking patterns. Through experimental evidence, clinical case material, and examples from literature, the authors offer a fresh perspective on the role of memory in personality and clinical psychology. They propose that a renewed emphasis on conscious thought and narrative memory may provide an integrative bridge among personality, social, clinical, and cognitive psychologists.
Purchase via Amazon >>


Message In A Bottle: Stories of Men And Addiction

Message In a Bottle Cover

Drawing on his research in personality, Singer provides an innovative set of recommendations about treatment strategies and appropriate psychotherapy for those suffering from severe addictions. Their stories make clear the limitations of a disease model of addiction that fails to address the men's fundamental loss of identity and membership in sober society. Singer's heart-wrenching Message in a Bottle teaches us lessons about the addict's world, but the insights that emerge are a message for us all.
Purchase via Amazon >>