Associate Professor
(719) 502-3351 | jason.dias@pikespeak.edu
Box C17, Centennial | PCE-F237
PsyD, University of the Rockies
Dr. Dias earned his PsyD in 2010 and has taught for Pikes Peak State College since 2011. He specializes in existential psychology and enjoys connecting psychology students with local resources and organizations.
Dr. Dias worked with adults who experience developmental disabilities for 20 years. He has experience with psychiatric patients in a semi-forensic setting. He co-founded the Zhi Mian Institute for International Existential Psychology and regularly visits China to further the work of helping therapists develop their skills at being knee-to-knee and eye-to-eye with people in distress.
Social psychology; human growth and development; psychopathology; psychology of gender.
Books:
Dias, J. (2018). Sanguine vengeance. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2018). Finding life on Mars. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2018). Values of Pain. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2017). For an uncertain future. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2017). Endpoint of sentience. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2016). What hope wrought. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2016). Half Lives. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2015). For love of their children. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2015). The worst of us. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2015). Shooting Blanks. Colorado Springs, Co: Superluminal Velocity Books.
Dias, J. (2014). The girlfriend project. Colorado Springs, Co: Dias Family Books.
Dias, J. (2010). Paintings in sand. Colorado Springs, Co: Dias Family Books.
Editorial assistance:
Elkins, D. (2009). Humanistic Psychology: A Clinical Manifesto. Colorado: University of the
Rockies Press.
Peer Reviewer for Second International Conference for Existential Psychology
Book Chapters:
Dias, J. and Underwood, J. (2026). Myth and meaning. In Hoffman (ed), The APA handbook of existential psychology. APA books.
Dias, J. (2017). Wu Wei. In Yang, M. (ed), Existential psychology and the way of the Tao: Meditations on the writings of Zhuangzi. Routledge
Dias, J. (2016). Existential Dreamwork. In Lewis, J and Krippner, S. (eds). Working with PTSD dreams and nightmares. Praeger Press.
Published articles:
Hoffman, L., Dias, J., McInerney, B., Dyer, C. Using Neuropsychology to Enhance
Existential Psychotherapy. (in press).
Dias, J., Claypool, T., Moats, M., and Hoxie, E. (2011). Louis Hoffman and the Art of International Dialogue. NeuroQuantology 9(3).
Dias, J., Chan, A., Unvarsky, J., Oraker, J., and Cleare-Hoffman, H. (2011). Reflections on Marriage and Family Therapy Emergent from International Dialogues in China. The Humanistic Psychologist 30(3). pp268-275.
Hoffman, L. & Dias, J. (2010). Culture, Food and Death: a Review of the film Departures.
Psycritiques, 55(18).
Also, a list of contributions to online journals too long to list.
Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychotherapy Association.
APA Division 32.
Existential psychology and terror management theory.