About

In writing The Digital Revolution: Loss of Freedom, Connection, Reality, and the Self, Eastman brings a varied history with two doctorates and additional study in neuroscience. His Doctor of Education (1963) from Harvard was an interdisciplinary degree permitting him to focus on philosophy, linguistics, and social relations, while his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (1974) from New York University focused on game theory and decision-making theory, specifically pertaining to the issue of human freedom in psychotherapy. He taught philosophy for 12 years, resigning his tenured professorship in the State University of New York system to pursue his Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He has been in private practice for over 50 years and maintains a practice currently in Cambridge, MA.

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Eastman has over a dozen published papers, mainly in philosophy, and has written four books, in addition to his two doctoral dissertations. His year as a Rockefeller Brothers Fellow at Yale Divinity School and years practicing as an Organizational Consultant also enriched his perspectives. He served a tour of duty as a legal officer in the Marine Corps, and during that time became a licensed pilot. He created a 501(c)(3) Institute of Media Research dedicated to studying the physiological effects of digital media, some of which research he describes in The Digital Revolution. He started a vegetarian commune centered around The Sunflour Bakery in Bar Harbor, Maine, and lived in it for several years. He also cites his 24 years teaching Music Therapists at Berklee College of Music in Boston, his own musicianship, and the effect his deep love for his four children has had on him in opening his mind and heart.

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