Fred Craigie, PhD
AB in Psychology, Dartmouth College
MS, PhD in Clinical Psychology, University of Utah
Fred grew up in northern New Jersey, fell in love with northern New England at Dartmouth College and spent several years in Utah at graduate school. As part of his doctorate program at the University of Utah, he did internships in the VA system in clinical psychology and in substance abuse rehabilitation.
Fred is the longest-serving Residency faculty member, having worked at the Residency for more years than he publicly admits… (think; Jimmy Carter, Jim Rice, The Complete Book of Running, Saturday Night Fever). He coordinates the behavioral health curriculum, provides a behavioral health consultation service in the Family Medicine Institute, and plays a variety of administrative roles.
Fred’s principal research and writing interests have to do with spirituality and health care, clinician well-being, and issues of culture and leadership in health care organizations. He is the author of Positive Spirituality in Health Care: Nine Practical Approaches to Pursuing Wholeness for Clinicians, Patients, and Health Care Organizations (Mill City Press, 2010). Fred presents nationally on these subjects and, in Maine, has coordinated an annual symposium on spirituality and health since 1987. He received a John Templeton Spirituality and Medicine Award for Primacy Care Residency Training Programs (in conjunction with the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health) in 2002. For several years, he has also been an adjunct faculty member at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical School, where he conducts web-based and Tucson-based teaching in spirituality and in the “art of healing” for the AzCIM fellowship program in Integrative Medicine.
At an athletically venerable age, Fred plays basketball 3-4 times a week. He says that he spent much of his life into the college years either studying or playing baseball (not necessarily in that order) and is a lifelong major league baseball addict and 35-year Red Sox fan. Fred plays fiddle and mountain dulcimer, enjoys carpentry and, with wife Beth, eagerly follows the exploits of three grown children and an infant grandson.