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About Jessica and David

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Doctor Jessica Micono is a traditionally educated and licensed forensic psychologist whose expertise is in psychological evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of criminal pathology. She has spent the last 11 years diagnosing and treating criminal offenders. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Regis University. She has a Psy.D. from the School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver.

Doctor David Morelos is a self-proclaimed “eclectic academic” with an unorthodox education in literature, philosophy and transpersonal psychology. He has spent the last 16 years working with criminal populations in both law-enforcement and substance abuse treatment roles. His expertise is in prisonization and men’s psychology. He is also an advisor for the Research Institute for Social Equity in Oakland, CA. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology (transpersonal concentration) from Sofia University in Palo Alto, CA.   

So what makes these two such an interesting team?

Well, it works like this:

Dr. Micono is the one with the prestigious degrees, the respected knowledge base, the solid experience, you get the idea. This woman knew she wanted to be a forensic psychologist since she was 12 years old! This certainly shows in her field where she is nationally regarded as an expert in all things forensically psychological.

Dr. Morelos, on the other hand, is an academic kook with a passion for exploring the aspects of the human experience that aren’t always easy to explain. He bounced around first studying writing and literature at famously eccentric Naropa University in Boulder, CO where he was exposed to transpersonal psychology, an academic field of inquiry born out the 1960s by those who felt contemporary psychological theory and practice was short-sighted and inherently limiting. While still debated by those in the field, the term transpersonal essentially means to go beyond the ego-centered pathologies that are generally the focus of traditional psychology. Today, transpersonalists explore all manner of topics to include near-death experiences, peak experiences, numerous spiritual wisdom traditions to include Western, Eastern and indigenous practices and beliefs, consciousness, psychoactive substances such as LSD, peyote and psilocybin, and basically anything else that we may experience as human beings that can’t be easily categorized, or marginalized, by the DSM-5.

So there you have it. Two professionals in the field of psychology from wildly different theoretical and practical orientations getting together to take a look at some fascinating topics. Think of them as the Mulder and Scully of psychology. Dr. Morelos likes to get lost with his head in the clouds while Dr. Micono keeps him from floating away with her two feet solidly on the ground. These two met in prison (where they work) and they enjoy eating good food, drinking good wine, and raising fur-babies together.