Skip Dine Young

Stephen 'Skip' Dine Young is a Professor of Psychology at Hanover College in Indiana where he has taught for fifteen years. His interests in psychology grew out of his experiences as a nomadic Army brat when he was able to observe the many ways people lived. He eventually received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. At Clark, he studied development, therapy, symbolism, stories and movies. He is currently a licensed psychologist with interests in identity, college advising, and psychological assessment. Since his senior thesis at Miami University (Ohio), Skip has been combining his personal passion for popular cultural (particularly movies and music) with his scholarship. He believes that movies can be "equipment for living"--they can take on personal meanings for viewers that impact our everyday lives (hopefully for the better). In addition to watching movies, he likes to interview people about the movies that have had a particularly powerful impact on them (or if you let him, he will go on and on about his own favorites). He is also obsessed with the music of Bob Dylan and has published and presented on Dylan's impact on his audience.