CURRICULUM VITAE
JAMES P. FLANDERS, Ph.D.
Jim Flanders, Ph.D., earned doctorates in both Social Psychology
and Clinical Psychology, served 16 years as tenured professor in state
universities, has privately practiced clinical psychology since 1982,
practiced in several hospitals and now in the downtown outpatient clinic of
Memorial Behavioral Health, Gulfport, MS, and is a veteran and small
town boy. His studies of psychology; The Garden City Movement in
Britain; neighborhood, village, and town planning; behavioral architecture;
small towns and vernacular architecture; neotraditional and New Urbanism
design; and Americana have produced the Hometown design.
BIOGRAPHICAL
Date of birth:
Place of birth
Address
Phone
E-mail
Citizenship
Family
November 12, 1942
Cornwall, New York
4102 16th Street, Gulfport, MS 39501
(228) 863-6788; fax (228) 863-6788: mobile (601) 630-6292
nobleman@pobox.com
United States
Wife Juanita (m. 1969), son Carl (b. 1969), daughter Leah (b. 1972)
EDUCATION DEGREES
B.S. psychology at University of Illinois, Urbana; major psychology, minor mathematics; 1964
M.A. psychology at Vanderbilt University; major in social psychology; 1966
Ph.D. psychology at Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN, major social psychology; 1968
Doctoral training program clinical psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, APAapproved program; advisor Dr. Theodore Millon, 1977-1981
Clinical psychology internship, Veterans Administration Medical Center (VA), Miami, FL, APAapproved internship; 1979-1981
LICENSING AND CERTIFICATIONS
State of Mississippi License No. 29-411, Psychology in the Clinical Area
State of Wisconsin Psychologist License No. 957
National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology No. 33079
Certified provider for numerous third party payors, Medicare, Magellan , Blue Cross/Blue Shield,
UBH, & many others
Certified provider for General Psychological Services, subsidiary of the National Register
EMPLOYMENT
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* = Postdoctoral full-time primary jobs
*1968-1970: Captain in U.S. Army, Departmental of Experimental Psychophysiology, Walter Reed
Army Institute of Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
*1970-1972: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green,
OH
*1972-1973: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL
*1973-1985: Associate Professor of Psychology, Florida International University (FIU)
*1985-1990: Private practice of clinical psychology, Eagle River, WI
1985-1987: Consulting Psychologist, Chemical Dependency Treatment Unit, Sacred Heart
Hospital, Tomahawk, WI
1985-1990: Unit Psychologist, Human Support Psychiatric Unit, St. Mary's Hospital, Rhinelander,
WI
1985-1990: Director and owner: Eagle River Psychology Associates, State-certified Outpatient
Psychotherapy Clinic, Eagle River, WI
*1990-1996: Clinical Psychologist, Vicksburg (Medical) Clinic, Vicksburg, MS
1993-2000: Vet Center, an affiliate of the VA, treat Vietnam Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD); only private contractor in the State
*1996-2007: Private practice of clinical psychology, Vicksburg, MS
*2007-present: Memorial Behavioral Health, Gulfport, MS, downtown outpatient clinic
1989-present: Director, Dr. Flanders Hometown, design and build livable residential
neighborhoods in village style to better meet human needs
PUBLICATIONS
Flanders, J.P. & Thistlethwaite, D.L. (1967). Effects of familiarization and group discussion on
risk taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 91-97. Also reprinted in P.B.
Smith (Ed.). (1970). (pp. 367-379) Group processes. Harmondsworth, Middlessex,
England: Penguin Books.
Flanders, J.P. (1968). A review of research on imitative behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 69, 316337. Also reprinted as report P-632 in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint series in social sciences.
Flanders, J.P. & Thistlethwaite, D.L. (1968). Effects of vicarious reinforcement, verbalization,
and task difficulty upon imitation. Proceedings of the 76th Annual Convention of the
American Psychological Association, 395-396.
Flanders, J.P. & Thistlethwaite, D.L. (1970). Effects of informative and justificatory variables
upon imitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 6, 316-328.
Flanders, J. P. (1971). Informal innovations in teaching: A précis. New Directions in Teaching,
3, 3-7.
Flanders, J.P. (1972). Application of the baseline methodology in psychology. Representative
Research in Social Psychology, 3, 47-59.
Mendels, G. & Flanders, J.P. ((1973). Teachers' expectations and pupil performance. American
Educational Research Journal, 10 (Summer), 203-212.
Flanders, J.P. (1976). Practical psychology. New York, NY: Harper and Row. This book took
several years to create and has numerous unique features. Upon request I will supply more
details such as review in Contemporary Psychology.
Flanders, J.P. (1976). Instructor's learning aids to accompany practical psychology. New York,
NY: Harper & Row. This was also a book, in fact the second instructor’s manual (Biehler
was first) in any discipline (not just psychology) to contain more than just test questions, but
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also a full range of instructor’s aids.
Flanders, J.P. (1982). A general systems approach to loneliness. In L. A. Peplau and D. Perlman (
Eds.). (pp.166-179). Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research, and therapy.
New York, NY: Wiley-Interscience.
Flanders, J. (1985a). Televiewing process effects I: The behavioral sponge theoretical viewpoint.
Unpublished manuscript. The main effect of television is watching it--still true but a
minority opinion. Will be sent on request.
SOME RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Flanders, J. P., & Sayner, R. (1995, September) Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
(EMDR): 4th annual update/discussion session. Presentation at the meeting of the
Mississippi Psychological Association, Biloxi, MS.
Evans, P., & Flanders, J. P. (1995, September) Trauma resolution in the context of marital
therapy. Presentation at the meeting of the Mississippi Psychological Association, Biloxi,
MS.
Flanders, J. P., & Sayner, R. (1996 & 1997, September) Eye movement desensitization and
reprocessing (EMDR): 5th (& 6th) annual update/discussion session. Presentation
Mississippi Psychological Association, Biloxi, MS.
Flanders, J. P., & Hawks, J. (1998, 1999, & 2000 September) Eye movement desensitization and
reprocessing (EMDR): 7th 8th, & 9th annual update/discussion session. Presentation the
meeting of the Mississippi Psychological Association, Biloxi, MS.
Flanders, J. P., Brunsell, P, & Grabowski-Miller, J. (2003, April) Psychology applied to design
healthy neighborhoods: New Urbanism, Middleton Hills in Madison, Dr. Flanders
Hometown. Presentation at the meeting of the Wisconsin Psychological Association,
Madison, WI
Flanders, J. P., & Gann, J. L. (2003, September) New Urbanism: Making it work for real people.
Presented at the meeting of the Pennsylvania Planning Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
Flanders, J. P., & Gann, J. L. (2004, October) Plan and Zone New Style Communities. (Two
alternatives to sprawl and New Urbanism neighborhood designs. Flanders: Hometown
Design, a neighborhood design scheme focusing on quality of life by meeting three basic
human needs. Gann: Focus on the Close-Knit Community Planning process emphasizing
small and close scale rather than architectural style.) Presented at the Planning at the
Crossroads: Making Great Communities Happen in the Heartland Regional Planning
Conference,ILUC and Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Wisconsin, and Illinois, Indianapolis, IN.
INTERESTS: BUSINESS
Clinical Psychology
Dr. Flanders Hometown, Director
Livable village style residential neighborhood design
Unique design to fill human needs
Materials available upon request
DR. FLANDERS HOMETOWN ACTIVITIES
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Completed Hometown prototype design for a unique neighborhood arrangement engineered to
directly satisfy basic human needs.
Hometown design comprises a unique and specific neighborhood arrangement as validated by the
highest authority in the United States—the United States Patent and Trademmark Office
issued Patent No. 6688052 to Dr. Flanders for Hometown design on February 10, 2004.
Amassed possibly the world’s most complete private library on neighborhood design
Incorporated the neighborhood design from fields of psychology, town planning, sociology,
behavioral architecture
Thinks in systems terms--wrote the General Living Systems chapter in the first ever scholarly book
on loneliness, the pioneering work of Peplau and Perlman (1982) referenced above.
Traveled extensively in US and Britain interviewing experts on planning and the Garden City
Movement, a British outgrowth of the Arts and Crafts Movement, that led to (a) the modern
field of urban planning and (b) the New Urbanism or Neotraditional planning movement
spearheaded by Duany and Plater-Zyberk with Seaside and now about 200 later projects in
progress.
Become friends with and conducted historical interviews with Walter Creese, world’s greatest
living expert of the Garden City Movement. Most recent interview early 1999 in
Cambridge, MA.
Has refined a Hometown Design which includes
 Physical design of site layout
 Financial design spreadsheet estimating costs
 Social design enumerating the social living possibilities that become available when one
lives in a village style neighborhood.
 The refined essence of highly adaptable village design as evolved throughout the ages.
 Style adaptable to small Town USA, Southern France Seacoast and Village, English
Cotswolds, etc.
 Buildings adapted to the purpose. Villages have historically incorporated a wide range
of sizes from lord to peasant, purposes from home to shop, usually in mixed use and
sized to human scale.
Surveyed REALTORS® in Vicksburg, MS; Jackson, MS; Houston, TX; and Madison, WI to obtain
objective ratings of neighborhood design preferences and other judgments. Each
REALTOR® is estimated to represent 500 homebuyers and know their hearts and minds
better than any other profession. Results showed REALTORS® (a) preferred Hometown as
their number one top choice 71% across all four cities and (b) estimated Hometown design
adds 11% over Small Town/village/New Urbanism design and thus 22% over the prevailing
sprawl design although Hometown costs about the same.
Moved to Gulfport, MS, to work during the week pursuing construction a Hometown design
neighborhood with builders, REALTORS®, and developers.
DR. FLANDERS THE PERSON
Best characterized as
Social psychologist
Clinical psychologist
Family man
Small town boy
Gets along with everyone
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Makes a good living treating the most emotionally wrenching experiences people can have
Clientele has always included the complete range of social, cultural, and economic persons
and personalities
Got his clinical psychology degree in Miami at the hated rival private university across town
from the State university where he was employed, but bridging such differences is a
way of life for Dr. Flanders.
Has a special interest in
Treating trauma of all types
Practicing Positive Psychology
Creativity
Dr. Flanders has historically participated in the cutting edge of innovation.
At the State university 1972-1985 he helped build the psychology department of a new
university from the day it opened with the largest entering class ever. His role was
often to write down a rough draft of a new concept, program, or policy, which a
committee would then refine into something excellent.
Spent most free time on refining Hometown design since 1990
Absolutely loves doing Hometown
REFERENCES BY REQUEST
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