Gregg Henriques

Unified Worldview Initiative Team Leader Dr. Gregg Henriques, Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University, is a clinical and theoretical psychologist. He is the founder of UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge, which is a new system of understanding that bridges the sciences and humanities into a coherent whole. Dr. Henriques is author of three books, UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge (2024), A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap (2022), and A New Unified Theory of Psychology (2011), and he has published many professional papers in the field’s top journals. He also has a popular blog on Psychology Today, called Theory of Knowledge, which has over 500 essays and received over 10 million views. Dr. Henriques is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the 2022 President of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia. He teaches classes in psychotherapy, personality, personality assessment, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vermont and did his postdoctoral training under Aaron T. Beck at the University of Pennsylvania.

Unified Worldview Initiative

Much of humanity lacks a coherent, comprehensive worldview that effectively integrates mind and consciousness with matter and successfully aligns objective knowledge of natural science with subjective and social ways of knowing. The Unified Worldview Initiative (UWI) is designed to underlabor for the continuing emergence of a complete and coherent Integrative worldview capable of addressing this "Enlightenment Gap" and orienting humanity through this moment of planetary transformation. Led by Dr. Gregg Henriques and supported by a core team of integrative metatheorists, the UWI will incorporate a critical but missing transdisciplinary metapsychology into our 21st-century big pictures by integrating three of the most powerful and generative frameworks for understanding the human being: Critical Realism, Integral Theory, and the Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK). The UWI will culminate in a white paper, a symposia series, and a book-length treatment of the integration.