Matthew Tyler Giobbi (born 1974) is an author and

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in the fields of music, science criticism,

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, psychoanalysis, and psychology. He has written '' A Postcognitive Negation: The Sadomasochistic Dialectic of American Psychology''.

Early life and education

Giobbi was born and raised in Easton and Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. He began studying music with Paul Schocker, a pianist and composer. He attended Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he studied trombone with Timothy Soberick, and at

Mannes School of Music Mannes School of Music is a music conservatory in The New School, a private research university in New York City. In the fall of 2015, Mannes moved from its previous location on Manhattan's Upper West Side to join the rest of the New School cam ...

, where he studied trombone with Per Brevig. He performed with the

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, and was a trombonist with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Lima in Peru. Giobbi studied trombone with Ivan Meylemans at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, in Brussels. In 2005, Giobbi earned a

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in psychology from the Graduate Faculty at The New School for Social Research in New York City. In 2009, he earned a Ph.D. from the European Graduate School, under

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Career

Academia

Giobbi designed the first undergraduate course in

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. The course was added to the university's curriculum catalogue in 2015. In 2014, he authored ''Media Psychology'', published by Atropos Press. His private teaching focus is now on the application of Existential therapy, existential-phenomenological psychology and Buddhist psychology in the practice of creative and performing arts.

Music

Albums

In 1998, Giobbi released ''Collected Songs'', which is a series of original songs, recorded in Brussels, Belgium. In 2018 he released an album of original compositions, ''Ode''. ''Take on Me'', an album of jazz-inspired music from the 1980s was released in 2021.

Singles

* ''Noelle'' (2021) * ''Silent Night'' (2021) * ''Good King Wenceslas'' (2021) * ''Did You Mean to Tell Me, "I Love You"?'' (2021) * ''Suddenly!'' (2021) * ''Whatcha Gonna Do?'' (2021) * ''Do Your Thing!'' (2021) * ''Once Upon a Time in Brussels'' (2021) * ''How to Love Again'' (2019) * ''Lost in Savannah'' (2019) * ''Learning How to Swim'' (2018) * ''Believe in Me'' (2018) * ''Ragazza Mia'' (1998)

Books

* ''Musings: On Buddhist Psychology, Intellectual History, Psychodynamic Theory, Media Psychology, & Existential-Phenomenology''. (Zürichsee Press, 2020). . * ''Inner Harmony: Personal Exploration at The Piano.'' (Zürichsee Press, 2017). . * ''Media Psychology''. (Atropos Press, 2014). . * ''The Ego and the ID & Caesar and Me: An Introduction to the Text of Sigmund Freud Through The Twilight Zone.'' (Zürichsee Press, 2015). . * ''An "A" Effort: The College Student's Guide to Success.'' (Tribeca Press, 2011). . * ''A Postcognitive Negation, A Postcognitive Negation: The Sadomasochistic Dialectic of American Psychology.'' (Atropos Press, 2010). ASIN: B014IC6Z72.

References

External links

Personal website

Contributor biography
at ''Psychology Today''
Faculty biography
at

1974 births Living people 21st-century American psychologists Musicians from Easton, Pennsylvania Writers from Easton, Pennsylvania {{US-psychologist-stub