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Fred Craigie, PhD

Dr. Craigie is a retired clinical psychologist, educator, and writer. In 2015, he transitioned from a 37-year full-time faculty role at the Maine -Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Augusta, Maine, where he coordinated behavioral health teaching for residents and students and provided behavioral health care to a largely underserved primary care population.

He serves as Visiting Associate Professor at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (AWCIM) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and held an appointment as Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth during the tenure of his family medicine teaching.

Since the mid-eighties, Fred has written and presented extensively about the healing and life-giving roles of spirituality in patient care, in the experience of health care providers, and in the life and culture of healthcare organizations. He takes particular joy in having founded and chaired the Tom Nevola, MD Symposium on Spirituality and Health, the oldest academic symposium on spirituality and health in the United States, beginning in 1987. He is also the founder of a spiritual care program at the Residency's affiliated hospital and served for many years as associate editor of a professional journal devoted to Christian faith and mental health.

With AWCIM, Fred has taught the Spirituality module in the fellowship program since 2001, teaches curricula in Spirituality and in Healing Relationships for the Integrative Health and Lifestyle program, and recently developed two sections for the new course on mental health and wellness. He is also the author of Spirituality and Relationships sections of the AWCIM program of integrative self-care apps.

He is the author of Positive Spirituality in Health Care: Nine Practical Approaches to Pursuing Wholeness for Clinicians, Patients, and Health Care Organizations, (Mill City Press, 2010) and Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful and Peaceful Living, (MSI Press, 2020), which was recognized as the 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year in Body, Mind, and Spirit and the winner of the 2022 National Indie Excellence Awards in the category of Well-being. 

In his personal life, Fred finds joy in his relationships with his wife and grown children and grandchildren. Along with regular reflection and conversations with other people, he pursues his own spirituality by playing fiddle and mandolin, running up and down the court playing basketball, doing carpentry and home projects, and resolutely following the subtleties and wonders of major league baseball. He was proud to call Maine "home" for 45 years before moving recently to the Cleveland area to be closer to two of the grandchildren and their great parents.  Fred and his wife also live seasonally in Tucson.


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