MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Brennan School of Business will present a lecture on reversal theory and the practice of change by Michael Apter on Tuesday, October 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the Springer Suite of the Rebecca Crown Library, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Michael Apter is a research psychologist and the co-founder and director of Apter International, Inc. He is a proponent of reversal theory, a psychological approach to exploring personality, motivation and personal change. He is the author of Dangerous Edge: The Psychology of Excitement, Motivational Styles in Everyday Life, and Reversal Theory: The Dynamics of Motivation, Emotion and Personality.

Apter received his doctorate from Bristol University in the United Kingdom and has served on the faculty of the University of Wales. He has also served as a visiting professor at Purdue University, Northwestern University, Yale University, Georgetown University and the University of Chicago, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

For more information about this free program, call the Brennan School of Business at (708) 524-6810.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs in five graduate schools through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a best value for the tenth consecutive year.