Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor, professor of psychology, and by courtesy, religious studies, at Santa Clara University. He is also an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and maintains a private clinical practice in Menlo Park, CA. More information is available on his Santa Clara University webpage.
Dr. Plante currently serves as editor of the American Psychological Association journal, Spirituality in Clinical Practice. He is an APA fellow (in Divisions 12, 36, 38, 46, and 47) and recently served on APA’s Council of Representatives. He has published 29 books, including Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased: Psychological, Scientific, and Theological Perspectives (with Gary E. Schwartz, 2022, Routledge). He has published over 250 journal articles and book chapters as well.
Dr. Plante has been frequently featured in major national and international media outlets such as CNN, Time Magazine, and the PBS News Hour. He received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Brown University, an MA and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas and completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in clinical and health psychology at Yale University.