Professor and chair in the Department of Counseling Psychology in the Graduate School at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Sloan is currently working to develop a critical theory of dialogue. Taking into account ideological and unconscious factors that systematically distort communication, he proposes restoring community dialogue and a psychology of empowerment to ultimately deepen democracy.  Sloan is the author of Damaged Life: The Crisis of the Modern Psyche and editor of Critical Psychology: Voices for Change . Register