About Frederic C. Craigie, Jr., PhD
Frederic C. Craigie, Jr., PhD graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and subsequently received MS and PhD degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Utah. He served two years of internships in the Veterans Administration system in Maine and Utah. Since 1978, he has been a faculty member at the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Augusta, Maine. He also holds appointments as Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Visiting Associate Professor at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Dr. Craigie has a longstanding interest in spirituality and heath care. Over the last 25 years, he has written and presented extensively about the healing and life-giving roles of spirituality in patient care, in the experience of health care providers, and in the life and culture of health care organizations. With the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Craigie has taught about spirituality and health care for the Fellowship and Integrative Medicine in Residency programs since 2001. He received a John Templeton Spirituality and Medicine Award for Primary Care Residency Training Programs (in conjunction with George Washington University Medical Center, Institute for Spirituality and Health) in 2002. He is also the founder of a pastoral care program at the Residency’s affiliated hospital, the organizer of an annual Maine symposium on spirituality and health care since 1987, and has served for many years as associate editor of a professional journal devoted to Christian faith and mental health.
In his personal life, Fred finds joy in his relationships with his wife, Beth, and grown children, Heather (and Matt), Matthew, and Tom. In addition, he pursues his own spirituality by playing fiddle and Appalachian dulcimer, running up and down the court playing basketball three or four times a week, doing carpentry, and resolutely following the subtleties and wonders of major league baseball. He has called Maine “home” since the mid-seventies.
You are welcome to contact Dr. Craigie at positivespirituality@gmail.com.