Professor of Clinical Psychology

Year Joined RCNJ: 2003

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7138
• Email: pheinze@ramapo.edu
• Office: G270
• Office Hours: TF 1:00-2:00

Education:

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
• M.A., Organizational Psychology
• B.A., Political Science

Convening Group:

• Psychology
• Africana Studies

Courses Offered:

• Advanced Topics: Psychopathy
• Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychology
• Multicultural Psychology
• Theories of Personality
• Learning, Cognition and Teaching

Teaching Interest:

• Psychopathic Personality
• White Privilege and Racism

Research Interest:

• Noncriminal Psychopathy
• Unconscious Shame
• Jungian Theory
• Institutional Racism

Recent Publications:

• Gullhaugen, A., Heinze, P., & Chernyahovsky Kornev, S. (2021). The theoretical validation of the Dynamic Model of Psychopathy (DMP): Toward a reformulation of the construct, assessment, and treatment of psychopathic traits. Psychoanalytic Psychology. (Peer reviewed)
• Heinze, P. (2017) Book Review:   Shame: Developmental, cultural and clinical realms,Psychodynamic Practice (Peer reviewed)
• Heinze, Peter. 2017 (in press). Teleology and the Objective Unconscious. In Jamin Pelkey, ed., Semiotics 2016. Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center.
• Heinze, P. (2016) “Psychopathy, unconscious shame and attachment: Considering the psychodynamics of psychopathy” Psychodynamic Practice (Peer reviewed)
• Heinze, P. (2014) “How is it all symbolized? Thoughts on PTSD and Semiotics”  Semiotics. (Peer reviewed)
• Heinze, P. (2013) “Shame as an Escape from Freedom.”  Semiotics. (Peer reviewed)
• Belt, Derricotte, Heinze & Rowe  (2013) “Detracking and Grassroots Leadership:  How a Community Group Fought Academic Tracking.”  Learning for Democracy: A Journal of Thought and Practice. (Peer reviewed)
• Heinze, P. & DeCandia, G. (2011) “Assessing the learning of white students on themes of white privilege and racism.” Multicultural Education. (Peer reviewed)
• Heinze, P., Allen, R., Magai, C. & Ritzler, B. (2010) “Let’s get down to business: A validation study of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory among a sample of MBA students.” Journal of Personality Disorders (Peer Reviewed)
• Heinze, P. (2008) “Let’s talk about race, baby”: How a White Professor Teaches White Students about White Privilege and Racism. Multicultural Education
• Heinze, P. & Munoz, S. (2008) Why are our needs not being met?: An exercise for facilitating accountability among work teams during organizational change. 2008 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting. San Francisco: Jossey Bass
• Heinze, P. & Munoz, S. (2007) Rows and Circles: An Exercise for Understanding Cultural Differences and Conflict Resolution. 2007 Pfeiffer Annual: Training. San Francisco: Jossey Bass
• Heinze, P. (2006) “Why White People Love White Supremacists: A psychoanalytic group relations perspective of white antiracism” The Whiteness Papers, No. 5 (Series edited by Dr. Charley Flint, Professor of Sociology, William Paterson University)
• Heinze, P. & Munoz, S. (2006), From Classroom to Corporation: The Development of an Exercise for Teaching Cross Cultural Psychology, Diversity and Conflict Resolution. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. (Peer-reviewed) <http://m05.cgpublisher.com/proposals/137/index.aspx>