Charles M. Macknee, PhD | Trinity Western University

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Chuck Macknee, PhD is chair of the Social Science Department and has been teaching Psychology courses at TWU since 1989. As a practicing psychotherapist, his teaching on personality, sexuality, psychology and spirituality, and systems of psychology is complemented by examples from his counselling. He has created and conducted a number of summer Travel Study courses to Europe and retreat courses that are rich with experiential learning. Chuck is a qualitative researcher and has published six articles relating sexuality and spirituality as well as research on sexual self-esteem, spiritual components of psychotherapy, therapeutic training, and homeless people.

Chuck is on Sabbatical for the Academic Year 2023/2024

PhD (British Columbia)
MA (Trinity Evangelical)
BA (Trinity Western)

Expertise

Couples counseling, Grief and loss, History of psychology, Human sexuality, Psychology and spirituality, and Theories of personality