Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Understanding the Psychological Significance of Astrology in Millennial Women's Lives, Rachel June Floyd (Fall 2023)
Functional Cynicism, Michelle Fried (Fall 2023)
EMBODIED FATNESS IN BOYS: A CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY, Sean Leadem (Spring 2023)
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
'Bleeding-in-the-World': A Qualitative Study of Self-Cutting and Blood, Sadie Mohler (Summer 2022)
A LIFE LIVED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: WHEN MOTHER’S LOVE IS KEPT IN THE DARK EXPLORING MATERNAL COMMUNICATION AND ATTACHMENT ORGANIZATION IN FAMILIES WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA, Myrsini Stefanidou Marini (Spring 2022)
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Psychotherapists' Experiences of Vulnerability, Kay Yu Yuan Chai (Spring 2021)
Interdependence with Our Most Forgetful Elders: Alzheimer's in the Anthropocene, Christine Heller (Summer 2021)
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Mentor as Scaffold: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Feminist-Informed Mentoring in the Undergraduate Setting, Elizabeth Bennett (Summer 2019)
Listen for the Desert: An Ecopsychological Autoethnography, Dorothy Cashore (Summer 2019)
Reclaiming Embodiment: An Existential-Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Tattoos, Ashley Gill (Summer 2019)
A Darker Side of Venus: An Empirical-Phenomenological Study of Women's Negative Experiences Encountering Pornographic Imagery, Rebecca Gimeno (Fall 2019)
“I Do Have a Softer Side”: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Prisoner-Dog Relationship in the Canine Partners for Life Training Program, Kathleen Kocherzat (Spring 2019)
Kink in Flux: BDSM theory and sexual praxis, Celeste Pietrusza (Summer 2019)
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Back in the Closet: A Queer-Modified Interpretive-Phenomenological Analysis of Gay Men Creating an Identity Through Clothing, Jose Arroyo (Summer 2018)
The Inheritance of this Moment: An Exploration of Temporality, Subjectivity, and Liberation in Non-Dual Contemplative Practice and Psychotherapy, Jeremy Axelrad (Fall 2018)
Speaking from Places: A Phenomenological Deconstructive Study of Children’s Places, Child-Centric Methods, and Politics., Sugandh Dixit (Fall 2018)
The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Queering Subjectivity in Zombie Film, Jessica Dunn (Summer 2018)
Illuminating the Trauma of the Closet Among Sexual Minorities: A Cinematic-Phenomenological Study of Existential Rights, Nisha Gupta (Summer 2018)
The Psychology of Self-Surrender: A Contemplative-Hermeneutic Study, Danny Sharara (Summer 2018)
Health Equity Through Spatial Justice: A Critical Phenomenology of Urban Trail Makers, Arvin Simon (Fall 2018)
The Myth of Promiscuity: Examining Black Male Sexual Narratives and Sexual Identity, Seth Young (Summer 2018)
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Clients' experiences of recovery-oriented care for schizophrenia: A qualitative research study, Sarah A. Hamilton (Fall 2017)
Structure or Knot: What Phenomenology and Asperger’s Syndrome can Teach Lacanian Psychoanalysis About Subjective Constitution, Shannon D. Kelly (Summer 2017)
Elemental trauma: A case study of living with contaminated water near sites of Marcellus Shale gas extraction, Christopher John McCann (Summer 2017)
“Forming Ranks”: The Impact of Negative-Destructive Leadership in The Aftermath of Military Sexual Assault and Reporting, Jessica Payton (Fall 2017)
Phylogeny, Psychology, and the Vicissitudes of Human Development: The Anxiety of Atavism, Frank Pittenger (Fall 2017)
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Perception and Language: Using the Rorschach with People with Aphasia, V. Terri Collin Dilmore (Summer 2016)
Leaps of faith: Trainees' experiences of not knowing in psychotherapy, Rachel Francine Gottlieb (Fall 2016)
Sexual Desire(s) and the Desire for Intimacy: An Autoethnographic Exploration, Nikolaos D. Kiskiras (Summer 2016)
Disabling Psychology: A Crip Analysis of Deaf and Blind Psychotherapists in Practice, Kathryn Irene Wagner (Summer 2016)
Social Dimensions of Alzheimer’s Disease Among Caregivers in Oaxaca, Mexico, Jonathan Yahalom (Summer 2016)
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Trauma at the Limit: Bearing Witness to the Impossible of Survivor Testimony, Travis J. Hall ( 2015)
The Visible and Invisible Aspects of Miscarriage: A Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, Imaginal Study, Denise M. Mahone (Spring 2015)
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Becoming a Sex Offender: A Study of Constitution at the Intersection of the Mental Health and Legal Systems, Jessica Callanan (Fall 2014)
Sojourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students, Mengchun Chiang (Fall 2014)
Primitive Defenses and Unilateral Termination of Psychotherapy: Are the Lerner Defense Scales Useful in Predicting Premature Termination in Psychotherapy?, Teal Fitzpatrick ( 2014)
Beyond Symptom Accumulation: A Lacanian Clinical Approach to Obsession - A Case Study and Theoretical Exposition, Julie L. Futrell (Summer 2014)
Addiction to Prescription Drugs: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Constructionist Study, Thomas Hallinan (Spring 2014)
The Influence of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Everyday Experiences of Being Angry: An Empirical Phenomenological Study, Ibrahim I. Kurdieh (Summer 2014)
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A room of one's own, revisited: An existential-hermeneutic study of female solitude, Karin Arndt (Fall 2013)
Where and When Things Fall Apart: Relating narratives of post-election violence from Nairobi, Joseph Hamer (Fall 2013)
The Ethical Imagination: A Hermeneutical Study, Jeb Gordon Jungwirth (Spring 2013)
The Significance of Meister Eckhart's View of the Self for Psychoanalytic Theories of Subjectivity: A Radical Hermeneutic Study, Mark Kroll-Fratoni (Summer 2013)
Maternal Guilt: An Existential Phenomenological Study of the Early Experiences of First-Time Mothers, Claire S. LeBeau (Spring 2013)
Psychotherapy as constitutional practice: A detailed interaction analysis of the change process in psychotherapy, Cody L. Maddox (Fall 2013)
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Black Men's Responsible Fatherhood Narratives: Fatherhood, Responsibility, Race, and Gender, Shane Chaplin (Summer 2012)
Coming to Terms with Abusive Childhood Sexual Experiences: A Listening Guide Study of Women's Stories, Melissa Geib (Spring 2012)
Student Peer-Group Focusing in Psychology Training: A Phenomemological Study, Amanda Burleigh Lowe (Summer 2012)
A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Study of Adept Practitioners' Experiences of Focusing, Sarah Nokes-Malach (Summer 2012)
Decolonizing Psychic Space: Remembering the Indigenous Psychology Movement in Taiwan, Rong-Bang Peng (Fall 2012)
Embodying Technology: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Corporeality and Identity as Manifested in a Case of Strap-On Dildo Use, Amy Taylor ( 2012)
Literary Imagination and Community Mental Health: A Deleuzian Analysis of Discourse in a Fiction Reading Group, Rodney Teague (Summer 2012)
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Encountering Questions of Religion in Psychotherapy: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Study of Religious Patients' Experiences, Jonathan Ahern (Fall 2011)
Karen Horney's Three Character Styles [Neurotic Styles] as Responses to Early Maternal Deprivation and Unmanageable Rage: Three Illustrative Case Studies, Diana Cuello (Summer 2011)
Therapist and Client Experience of Collaborative Assessment: A Qualitative Study, John Danna (Spring 2011)
Finding voice: An introduction to philosophy and psychotherapeutic practice, Ryan Mest (Spring 2011)
Gay identity formation: An (auto)ethnographic look at gay volleyball, G. Keilan Rickard (Fall 2011)
The Experience of Being Thrown Back in Encounters for Adults who were Physically Abused as Children by a Parent or Caregiver: An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation, Jean Risko (Fall 2011)
Neurosis or Perversion? A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Diagnostic and Clinical Approach to the Treatment of Paraphilia at a Forensic Outpatient Setting: A Case Study and Exegetical Method, Stephanie Swales (Summer 2011)
Co-Sleeping with Her Baby: A Qualitive Study of Adaptive and Prescriptive Voices in Parenting Decision Making, Elizabeth A. Tran (Summer 2011)
Living with Schizophrenia: A Phenomenological Investigation, Andri Yennari (Fall 2011)
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Working with the Drive: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Treatment of Addictions, Cristina Laurita (Summer 2010)
Political Violence in South Africa: A Case Study of "Necklacing" in Colesberg, Sipho Mbuqe (Summer 2010)
Active and Passive Rorschach Movement Responses: Toward a Historically and Experientially Grounded Revision of Scoring Criteria, Patrick James McElfresh (Spring 2010)
Flirting as a Liminal Experience: A Dialogue between a Philosophical-Phenomenological Understanding of Liminality and an Empirical-Existential Study of Flirting, Rune Lassen Mølbak ( 2010)
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Two Tongues for a Dream: A Hermeneutic Study, Marta Bachino (Fall 2009)
Levinasian Ethics in Clinical Psychology: The Attitude of Attending, Leora Bernstein (Spring 2009)
A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Literature of Technology: Prometheus Bound, Frankenstein and Battlestar Galactica, William Blais (Fall 2009)
Foster Mothers' Experience of Parenting a Foster Child with Attachment Problems: An Empirical Phenomenological Investigation, Cynthia Byers (Fall 2009)
Dialogues between Feminists and Jacques Lacan on Female Hysteria and Femininity, Katerina Catherine Daniel (Spring 2009)
The Characteristics and Functions of Humor in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Study, Joshua Gregson (Fall 2009)
The Impact of Combat Trauma on Veterans' Family Members: A Qualitative Study, Jackie Grimesey (Spring 2009)
Imag(in)ing Neuro-Psychology: A Multi-Perspectival, Critical, Autoethnographic Study, Kristen Hennessy (Summer 2009)
Bridges and Borders: An Autoethnographic Account of the Confluence of Borderline Pathology, Countertransference, and Therapist Subjectivity, Kimberly S. Hodge (Spring 2009)
The Role and Function of Literacy in Two Homeschooling Families, Kevin Rua (Fall 2009)
Mental Health Care at the Margins: A Critical Ethnography of Psychological Practice in an Inner City Mental Health Setting, Katy Sampson (Fall 2009)
Clients' Experience of Effective Psychoanalytic-Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Major Depression: An Empirical Phenomenological Study, Thomas Smith ( 2009)
Transitions in the Mental Health Field's System of Professions from WWII until the Present: The Case of Dubville, Daniel Noam Warner (Summer 2009)
A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Analysis of Experimental Infant Research, James L. Yu (Fall 2009)
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
"How Do We Make that Change?" Analysis of Transformative Dialogue in a Community Initiative, Tanya A. Brown ( 2008)
(Self-)Translation and Melancholia: Becoming-In-Language A Psychoanalytic View, Emilija Georgievska-Nanevska (Fall 2008)
(Self-)Translation and Melancholia: Becoming-In-Language A Psychoanalytic View, Emilija Georgievska-Nanevska (Fall 2008)
Early Childhood Classroom Quality and Preschool Learning Behaviors, Steven Placid Kachmar (Spring 2008)
Look(in)g Asian, Accenting English: An Autoethnography of Interstitial Cultural Identity, Akiko Motomura (Fall 2008)
Efficacy of a Direct Instruction Approach to Promote Early Learning, Jennifer Lee Salaway (Spring 2008)
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Self-forgiveness: A narrative phenomenological study, John Beiter (Spring 2007)
Showing what we see: psychoanalytic vision, transparency, and linguistic pragmatics, Scott Bortle ( 2007)
The Bloody Truth: A Psychological and Cultural Study of Menstruation as Lived and Experienced by Women, Carolyn DeForest (Spring 2007)
Project Camelot and Military Sponsorship of Social Science Research: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Ryan Hunt ( 2007)
Is there a place for sexual difference in Ernesto Spinelli's existential phenomenological psychology? An Irigarayan response to the work of Ernesto Spinelli, Aloysius Joseph ( 2007)
The Relationship Between Soldier and Military Working Dog During the Vietnam War: An Empirical Existential Phenomenological Study, Sherri McGraw (Spring 2007)
Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural-Psychological Analysis of Tobacco Use, Michael Melczak (Fall 2007)
Following the Letter: Case Studies in the Application of Lacanian Theory to Psychotherapy, Michael Miller (Spring 2007)
Demystifying A Sexual Perversion: An Existential Reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love, Salvatore Palazzolo (Summer 2007)
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: Involving Group Therapists in the Development of Clinically Relevant Research Questions and Methodologies, Mandy Schleifer (Summer 2007)
African American Perceptions of Childhood Behavioral Disorders and Mental Health Services, Chant Wellington (Spring 2007)
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Perceptual Coherence: Multisensory Perception and Embodied Dynamics, Matthew C. Costello (Spring 2006)
Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe, Ian Charles Edwards ( 2006)
Family Identity Discourse: A Study of Ego Development in Sibling Relationships, Jamie Ghany (Spring 2006)
Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan, Lynn Christine Harper (Spring 2006)