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Jeremy Northup, Psy.D.

Pictured is Jeremy Northup. Photo by Randall Coleman.Assistant Professor, Psychology

 

Contact Information

  • Office: 501 LH
  • Phone: 412-392-3895

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Point Park University
  • Master of Arts, Clinical-Community Psychology, Point Park University
  • Facilitator Training, Hearing Voices USA
  • Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Point Park University

Courses Taught

  • Clinical Fundamentals
  • History & Theory of Psychology
  • Social Psychology & Cultural Transformation

Background

Jeremy Northup, Psy.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at Point Park University. Before joining the faculty at the University, he completed his predoctoral internship at Hutchings Psychiatric Center, a state psychiatric facility in Syracuse, New York. He worked on an adult inpatient unit with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) and forensic populations. Additionally, he completed a year-long outpatient rotation with children and adolescents at Hutchings Psychiatric Center's Children and Youth Services. He also has experience working in counseling centers and partial hospitalization programs.

Dr. Northup has an extensive background in qualitative research, having been an advocate ethnographer in conjunction with Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net. He continues to consult with organizations that serve those who are currently homeless in Pittsburgh. Dr. Northup is a trained Hearing Voices Network facilitator and helped create two Hearing Voices groups that offer peer support for those seeking to understand their strange, bizarre and unusual experiences in a manner other than the medical model. He is also a co-founder of the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network, which hosts a weekly public reading group at a local coffee shop and organizes events in the region related to continental philosophy and critical theory. 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

  • Psychotic spectrum and personality disorders 
  • Child and adolescent psychology
  • Interpersonal psychoanalysis
  • Philosophical hermeneutics
  • Neoliberalism
  • Continental philosophy 

Selected Publications

  • McInerney, R., Schulz, S., Kainaroi, K., Northup, J., Roussanoff, A., Wentworth, E., Long, K., Stough, R., Noreiga, I. (2020). An advocate ethnography on the phenomenon of homelessness: Returning home to thriving. Qualitative Psychology.
  • McInerney, R., Northup, J., Kainaroi, C. (2019). Presenting an Existential foundation for Community-based Research using Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. The Humanistic Psychologist.
  • Northup, J., Kainaroi, C., Bright, A., & McInerney, R. (2016, June 1). Point Park Study = Science Advocacy for Homeless. New People.

Selected Presentations

  • Robbins, B., Northup, J., Bobak, A. (March 2020). Scapegoat theory and its implications for humanistic psychology. Panel Presentation at the Conference of The American Psychological Association, Div. 32 (canceled) at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.
  • Allen, M., Robbins, B., Northup, J. (March 2020). A within we could do without: Humanistic psychology’s relationship with neoliberalism. Panel Presentation at the Conference of The American Psychological Association, Div 32 (canceled) at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.
  • Northup, J., (October 2019). Line break / skin break: poetically deconstructing the pathology of cutting. Paper Presentation at the Society for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J., (September 2019). Hearing Voices: An alternative approach. Presentation at Finding Ways Home Conference at The Pittsburgh Project, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J., Rinehart, A., Gaddes, B., & Browne, M. (May 2019). Self-Care and burnout (a deconstruction). Presentation at Duquesne University & Point Park University’s Graduate Symposium at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J. (April, 2019). Cosmic erotics. Presentation for Point Park’s Confluence Psychology Alliance, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J. (April 2019). Disavowing the subject: communities without subjectivity. Presentation at Point Park’s 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Allen, M., Northup, J., Graham, B., (March 2019). (Continued) challenges to fear and loathing: current humanistic approaches to “psychotic” consciousness transformations. Presentation at the Conference of The American Psychological Association, Div. 32 at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
  • Northup, J., Long, K., Noreiga, I., (November 2018). Perspectives on homelessness: Student ethnographers and human services providers. Panel discussion held at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J. (October 2018). Gay Levinas. Paper Presentation at the Society for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences, Penn State, PA.
  • Robbins, B., Northup, J., Bobak, A., Crawford, K., & Carino, M. (December 2017). What does it mean to be normal anyway?: Utilizing a humanistic approach to develop a university anti-stigma campaign. Round table discussion held at Point Park University’s Qualitative Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • McInerney, R., Schulz, S., Northup, J., Kainaroi, C., Bright, A., Noriega, I., Gallagher K. (April 2017). Homelessness: A community based, participatory action research and advocate ethnography with Operation Safety Net. Presentation at the Conference of The American Psychological Association, Div. 32 at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Allen, M., Northup J. (April 2017) Potential barriers to the implementation of ipseity-hyperreflexivity treatment approaches in early intervention for psychosis risk. Presentation at the Conference of The American Psychological Association, Division 32 at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J. (September 2015). A tenuous experiment: To figure mutant, lively, lines of community. Presentation at (un)commons: Theory and Public Space at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J. (April 2015). They creaturely assemblages. Presentation at the Duquesne University Regional Undergraduate Psychology Conference at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • McInerney, R., Northup, J., Kainaroi, C. (April 2015). Teaching humanistic-existential community psychology using Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. Presentation at the Conference of The American Psychological Association, Division 32 at the Chicago School for Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL.
  • Northup, J. (April 2015) They creaturely assemblages. Presentation at the Conference of The American Psychological Association, Division 32 at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL.
  • Northup, J. (December 2014). They creaturely assemblages. Presentation at the Confluence Psychology Alliance Undergraduate Qualitative Research Conference at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Northup, J. (September 2014). Becoming-openly: relationship anarchy and immunitas. Presentation at Approaching the Liminal: Pushing the Boundaries of Continental Philosophy at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Professional Memberships

  • American Psychological Association, Division 24, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
  • American Psychological Association, Division 32, Society for Humanistic Psychology