title: Lisa Miller (psychologist)
text: # Lisa Miller (psychologist)
  
  Lisa Jane Miller is an American professor, researcher and clinical psychologist, best known as a research scholar on spirituality in psychology. Miller is a tenured Full Professor at Columbia University, Teachers College in the Clinical Psychology Program and Founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute. Miller's published science on spirituality in renewal from addiction, depression and struggle has been reported in articles focusing on her research in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, as well as in television interviews and podcasts.
  
  ## Early life and early career
  
  Miller obtained a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Yale University and a doctorate under Martin Seligman, founder of the positive psychology movement, at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
  ## Books
  
  * The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life (2021) ISBN 978-1-984-85562-6
  * The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving (2015) ISBN 978-1-250-03292-8
  * The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality (2012) ISBN 978-0-199-72992-0
  