Seminar Paper Archive

2012 Papers

• Peter August.-"Loves Polysemy and the Threshold of Communication."

• David Goodman, Ph.D.-"Levinas, Pornography, and Pixilated Relation."
• Sarah LaChance Adams.-"Love, Rage and Sacrifice: Levinas and the Problem of Purposeful Maternal Filicide."

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

2011 Papers

• Alexandra L. Adame, Ph.D., Seattle University - “Compassion for Things I’ll Never Know”: The Philosophical Basis of Transpersonal Responsibility"  
• Michael J. DeVries, Ph.D., Trinity Christian College - "In-habiting Buber’s Thought in the Practice of Psychotherapy"  
•  Ada Fetters - "What Shall We Do Without Us?"  
•  David Flaxer - "Levinas in Practice: Mental Health Treatment in a Community-Based Clinic"  
•  Jeff Grant and Rodrigo Reyes-Alvarez del Castillo - “A Hopeful Stance: How Ethics, Compassion and Empathy can Elicit Change"  
•  Steen Halling, Ph.D., Seattle University - "What in the Life World is Levinas Talking About?"  
•  Ken Kimmel – “Wounded by the Other: Transcending Narcissism through the Experience of ‘Exteriority,’ as Understood in Levinas, Jewish Mysticism & Dreams”
• George Kunz - “Adults only due to extravagant language, possible misreading of texts, and painful messages about hypostatic therapeutic change” 
• Claire Steele LeBeau - "The Delicate Balance between Naming and Bearing, Giving and Receiving, Rejection and Return to the Other: A Levinasian Exploration of Holding Pain"  
• Heather Macdonald, David M. Goodman, and Katie Howe –  "The Ghetto Intern: Culture and Memory" 
  
• Donna Orange - "Inclusion: Attitudes Toward Otherness For Clinical Therapeutics"   
•  Eric R. Severson - "Disruption and Epiphany: Levinas at Work in Therapy"
   

2010 Papers 

• Ada Fetters - Must Out of Sight Mean Out of Mind? Levinas, Language and the Schizophrenic Other 

• Brian W. Becker, Ph.D. - The Logic of Love: A Personal Account of Moving Toward the Particular Other 

• David Flaxer - Interiority and Exteriority: Levinas and Psychological Practice

• David M. Goodman, Ph.D. & Steven Huett, M.A. - Effacing the Divine Trace: The (A)Proximal, Faceless Third-Party and the Psychotherapeutic Dyad 

• Don MacDonald - Levinas Meets Macmurray and They Wonder If Psychotherapy Has Any Merit 

• Eric R. Severson, Ph.D. - Time, Lament and Testimony:Levinas and the Impossible Possibility of Therapy

• Herman Gill, Ph.D. - “Other” as Excluded Self-Object

• Heather MacDonald, Psy.D. - Levinas In The Hood: Portable Social Justice 

• Patrick Cheatham - A Dialogue of Searching: Levinas and The Sexual Encounter 

 2009 Papers

• Joshua W. Clegg - In a rationality of peace the rupture of the other is inscribed in the acts of reason  
• Ed Durgan - Quality of life amongst chronically mentally ill adults on Vancouver's downtown east side across a variety of dwelling situation  
• David M. Goodman & Brian W. Becker - The psyche awakened: trauma, violence, and the other  
• George Kunz - Non-useless suffering  
• Kathleen M. Pape - The face of the other as an ethic of motherhood  
• Jeff Warren - Sound and Proximity  

2007 Papers

1. Kevin C, Krycka Levinas & Gendlin: Joint contributions for a 1st Person approach to understanding difficult situations in the Mid-East
2. Corey Beals The Ring of Gyges and Fading Exteriority
3. Dominique Walmsley Sensibility and the Face: Breaking Through the Shame
4. David M. Goodman and Scott F. Grover Hineni and Transference: The Remembering and Forgetting of the Other
5. Al Dueck and Elizabeth Welsh An Unfolding of Love in the Works of Kristeva and Levinas Implications for Psychotherapy
6. Leora Bernstein because of confidential information of a case study, she requests her paper not be placed on the web. Anyone who would like a copy of her paper ask at lb711@partners.org  
7. Brandie Siegfried Levinas, Models of Memory, and the Psychology of Resiliency
8. Karen Halsey Turning Toward the Other: Reflections on a Pivotal Experience of Alterity, Desire, and Inspiration in Relationship
9. Claire Steele LeBeau Therapeutic Impasse and the Call of the Other to Keep Looking
10. John C. Hecker Contemplating an Understanding of Anxiety through Levinas contra Heidegger:  Heroism as a Meaningful Treatment Option
11. Marie McNabb A Saying without a Said, the Opposite of Transcendence: Levinas and the aftermath of the violence of murder in PTSD treatment
12. Wayne Dykstra Envisioning a Levinas Inspired Psychotherapy
13. Mitchell Harris and Brent D. Slife Otherness as Fundamental to Relationship in Psychotherapy

1. Gloria Gage A Levinasian Defense for the Homeless
2. Pamela Telkamp Lifelong Learning Face-to-Face: Adult Education and the Theories of Emmanuel Levinas

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2006 Abstracts & Papers

1. David Goodman Demandedness: An Alternative to the Normal Bell Shaped Self  
2. Jeff Warren: Is the Mystery of Music the Mystery of the Other?
3. George Kunz: Levinas psychoanalysis
4. Melissa Geib: To Caress the Other: Emmanuel Levinas and Psychotherapy
5. John Hacker: Displacing Individualism with a Paradigm of Others; Considering the Role of Ethnicity in Moral Character Development
6. Brian Becker: Self as Other? A Levinasian Analysis of Carl Jung’s Concept of the Self-Ego Relation
7. David Harrington: Wish You Were Here
8. Anna Orton: The Paradoxical Power of the Symptomatic Child; An Integration of Levinisian Ethics and Family Systems Theory
9. Trevor Slocum: From Pride to Humility . He requests that his paper not be placed on the web. Anyone who would like a copy may email him at trevor@slocumcounseling.com.
10. David Goodman Demandedness: An Alternative to the Normal Bell Shaped Self
11. Jeff Warren: Is the Mystery of Music the Mystery of the Other?
12. John Hacker: Displacing Individualism with a Paradigm of Others; Considering the Role of Ethnicity in Moral Character Development
13. Anna Orton: The Paradoxical Power of the Symptomatic Child; An Integration of Levinisian Ethics and Family Systems Theory
14. Trevor Slocum: From Pride to Humility  

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2005 Abstracts & Papers

1. Richard Cohen - On the way to a Levinas Inspired Psychology for the Other
2. Dueck and Goodman - Substitution and the Trace of the Other: Levinasian Implications for Psychotherapy
3. Grimesey - The Tragedy of Domestic Violence: Dynamics and Solutions as Understood Through the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
4. Harrington – Time and Weighing: Theodicies of Everyday Life
5. George Kunz – How is Responsibility Therapeutic?
6. Paul Marcus – Love Without Lust
7. Steele - On the way to Interiority: The need for faade and the therapeutic process towards revelation
8. Warren – Do I Know You? Memory, Trauma and the Other
9. Williams and Gantt - Emmanuel Levinas: Exploring the Possibility of a Meaningful Psychology of Religion

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