Master of Arts in Psychology

Psychology for the Other: Abstracts

The abstracts for the 2012 Psychology for the Other Seminar are now available:

Claire Katz - No One is More Self-Sufficient than Rousseau”: Dependence, Vulnerability and Levinas’s New Ethical Subjectivity 

Claire Steele Lebeau, M.A. -From Mother to the Other: A Levinasian Exploration of the Process of Becoming a Mother.  

Sarah LaChance Adams - Love, Rage and Sacrifice:  Levinas and the Problem of Purposeful Maternal Filicide   

Kevin Krycka, Psy.D. -A Horizon of Asymmetry: Challenges to a Flat World Psychotherapy.   

James Risser & Eric Severson - Hans-Georg Gadamer and Emanuel Levinas.  

David M. Goodman, Ph.D.- Levinas, Pornography, and Pixilated Relation. 

J. Rodrigo Reyes, MA. & John Totten, MA. - Exile and Return in the Therapeutic Encounter: A Theological Conversation with Psychology.

George Kunz , Ph.D. - Weak Enough.

J. Rodrigo Reyes, M.A. - The Poetics of the Encounter with the Other: Ethical Treatment of Transgender Patients.  

Peter August -  Love’s Polysemy and the Threshold of Communication. 

Shannon Solie & Alex Szablya - Rupture, Repair, Repeat:  Implementing the Feminine Perspective into the Therapeutic Relationship.   

Maddox Pratt - Making Eros Speak: Levinas, Feminism, and the (Re)imagining of Eros. 

Katie Howe, David Goodman, Ph.D. and Eric Severson - Fracturing the Symbolic Code in Psychotherapy: Kristeva, Bakhtin and Constraints of CBT  

Maxim Livshetz, M.A., Psy.D. Candidate & David Goodman, Ph.D. -Exposed to Exposure: the Ethical Sensibility of Emmanuel Levinas  

Jeff Grant, M.A. & J. Rodrigo Reyes, M.A.- First Things First: How the Event of Empathy Precedes Gender in the Psychotherapeutic Context.