Dr. Gordon E. MacKinnon, Ph.D.

Expert Publications

• How a collaborative task force can assist in managing biotechnology products.
• Preliminary survey of pharmacists' use of the Internet.
• Preparing medical students for the changing healthcare environment in United States.
• Binocular stimulation and the fragmentation of after-images.
• AUTOKINETIC MOVEMENT: SELECTIVE MANIPULATION OF DIRECTIONAL COMPONENTS BY IMAGE STABILIZATION.
• Computer-based patient simulations: hospital pharmacists' performance and opinions.
• Process dissociation of sight vocabulary and phonetic decoding in reading: a new perspective on surface and phonological dyslexias.
• Applying business principles to pharmaceutical care.
• Selective reading: attention to the "unattended" lines.
• Steadily fixated figures and prolonged after-images: further evidence that fragmentation occurs non-randomly.
• Coloured mach bands.
• Stabilized images, steadily fixated figures, and prolonged after-images.
• Metropolitan network of drug-use evaluation and quality assurance pharmacists.
• Mark Philip Bryden.
• Motivations and practice-area preferences of pharmacists interested in pursuing a Pharm.D. degree through a nontraditional program.

Media Releases

Get to know Psychologist Dr. Gordon E. MacKinnon, who serves patients throughout the State of Michigan.

An experienced psychologist, Dr. MacKinnon is the Clinical Director of his private practice, MacKinnon Psychological Associates. He also serves as a Professor of Psychology, former Chair of the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, and Clinical Director of the Psychology and Counseling Clinic at Rochester University.

Having maintained a private practice in clinical psychology, he has proudly been serving children, adolescents, families, and adults in Southeast Michigan. He brings a total of over 35 years of professional experience in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient psychotherapy clinics, which have included behavioral and neuropsychological evaluations, marital and family therapy, and adolescent residential treatment.

Throughout his academic career, Dr. MacKinnon completed his undergraduate education at Rochester University with his Bachelor of Science degree in Religious Education in 1981, followed by an additional Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resources Development at Oakland University. He then went on to receive his Master of Arts degree in Marital and Family Therapy at Wayne State University in 1984. With a commitment to excellence, he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Detroit, Mercy in 1997.

Remaining abreast of the latest advancements in his field, he maintains active memberships with the American Psychological Association, the Michigan Psychological Association, the National Council on Family Relations, and the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, and has received certifications from the American College of Forensic Examiners, and the American Board of Certification in Homeland Security. He also serves as a Member and Vice-President at the Academy for the Psychoanalytic Arts., and is a former Fellow of the American Psychotherapy Association (FAPA).

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind. It includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope. Psychologists assess, diagnose, and treat the psychological problems and behavioral dysfunctions resulting from, or related to, physical and mental health. In addition, they play a major role in the promotion of healthy behavior, preventing diseases and improving patients’ quality of life.

On a more personal note, Dr. MacKinnon is married to Nancy Keller-MacKinnon, who teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Social Work and Early Education at Rochester College. They have a daughter, Ashley, who is a 2009 graduate of Rochester University. In his spare time, he enjoys the magical arts and the psychology of magic. He owns an “old world” letterpress printing press manufactured in 1886 and revived his interest in printing after many years, when his daughter asked him to print her wedding invitations.

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