Dissertation Titles

Aanstoos, C. (1982). A phenomenological study of thinking as it is exemplified during chess playing, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Adams, W. (1993). Experiencing the sacred in everyday life: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Alapack, R. J. (1972). The phenomenology of the natural athlete, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Alexander, E. K. (2002). Receiving hands-on energy-healing: An existential-phenomenological investigation, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Arrigo, B. (1998). A phenomenological investigation of changing limiting beliefs about the self in reimprinting, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Asarian, R. D. (1981). The psychology of courage: A human scientific investigation, Director: Edward Murray, CSSp., Ph.D.

Bajada, D. W. (1982). Confiding: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Barbaria, J. M. (1989). An empirical phenomenological investigation of the individual psychotherapeutic process, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Barbetti, V. (2003). A Historical Phenomenology of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Bargdill, R.
(1998). Being bored with one's life: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Barnes, R. M. (1980). A study of the psychological structures of transcendental, yoga, and ignatian meditation as allied phenomena, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Barrows, A. C. (1999). The imaginative activity of borderline personality, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D. & Edward Murray, Ph.D., CSSp.

Becker, C. S. (1973). A phenomenological explication of friendship: As exemplified by most important college women friends, Director: William F. Fischer, Ph.D.

Beira, M. (1999). Logos, Hermeneutics, and Psycho-analysis Philosophical foundations for a phenomenologically based human science research approach to a psychological phenomena, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Beiter, J. (2007). Self-forgiveness: A narrative phenomenological study, Director: Leswin Laubscher, Ph.D.

Bell, L. H.
(1969). The first month of life: A critical look at the earliest ontic foundations of human existence, Director: David Smillie, Ph.D.

Benswanger, E. G. (1975). An empirical-phenomenological study of inhabited space in early childhood, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D

Beyer, J. (1999). Experiencing the self as being part of nature: A phenomenological-hermeneutical investigation into the discovery of the self in and as the flesh of the earth, Director: Eva-Maria Simms, Ph.D.

Billotta, V. M. (1976). An existential phenomenological study of gay male permanent lover relationships, Director: Edward Murray, CSSp., Ph.D.

Bizub, A. (1998). Transformation of world-relatedness: A phenomenological investigation of the individual who is blind and owns a guide dog, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Bodnar, R. (1999). Imaginary companions and imaginal experiencing: An empirical-phenomenological study of the imaginary companion phenomenon in children, Director: Martin Packer, Ph.D.

Bonner, C. W. (1993). An existential-phenomenological investigation of identity confusion as exemplified by adolescent suicide attempts, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Bortle, J. (2005). Games People Play: Identity and Relationships in an Online Role-Playing Game, Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Bortle, S. (2007). Showing what we see: Psychoanalytic vision, transparency, and linguistic pragmatics, Director: Bruce Fink, Ph.D.

Brennan, J. F. (1971). Being-in-a-family: An exploratory phenomenological study, Director: William F. Fischer, Ph.D.

Brice, C. W. (1987). What forever means: An empirical existential-phenomenological study, Director: William F. Fischer, Ph.D.

Brooks, R. P. (1968). Sartre's existential psychoanalysis, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Brown, V. W. (1986). Psychotherapists' strong reactions: An empirical, phenomenological investigation, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Bryant, B. (2002). Projective identification: A nondichotomous interpretation based on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Bunce, D. (2002). Living Without a Limb: An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation of What is Means to Lose a Leg, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Burbridge, C. E. (1978). Becoming and being frustrated: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Cagney, W. R. (1968). Homosexual marriages: A descriptive analysis of the self-experiences of homosexual males in long-term dyadic relationships, Director: Alice Wagstaff-Verosko, Ph.D.

Cain, S. (1998). Mothers' experiences of having their young daughters disclose sexual abuse by a father figure: A hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation, Director: Suzanne Barnard, Ph.D.

Calhoun, I. (1992). The adolescent's experience of not doing what one's parents want, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D

Callanan, E. (1967). The phenomenon of encounter in psychotherapy, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Capone, M. (1986). Becoming addicted to heroin: An empirical phenomenological approach, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Carney, C. L. (1984). The meanings of therapeutic psychological change as revealed in short-term psychotherapy: A phenomenological inquiry, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Carter, S. (1988). Unipolar clinical depression: An empirical-phenomenological study, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Chase, M. (1998). The experience of mood swings in manic depressive illness: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Churchill, S. (1984). Psychodiagnostic seeing: A phenomenological investigation of the psychologist's experience during the interview phase of a clinical assessment, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Clarke, A. (1996). An empirical-phenomenological study of denying in the context of childhood sexual trauma, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Cloonan, T. (1969). Experiential and behavioral aspects of decision-making, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Colaizzi, P. (1969). The descriptive methods and the types of subject-matter of a phenomenologically based psychology: Exemplified by the phenomenon of learning, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Connor, S. (1986). A phenomenological study of the experience of an epileptic seizure, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Cosgrove, L. (1987). The aftermath of sexual assault: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Costello, M. (2006). Perceptual coherence: Multisensory perception and embodied dynamics, Director: Eva M. Simms, Ph.D.

Coufal, D. (1997). Being impatient: An existential-phenomenological study, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Coufal, R. (1996). The adult's seductive sexual relationship with a child: An empirical-phenomenological study of the male pedophile, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Culley, W. (2004). Desistance From Crime: A Study of Ex-inmates' Desistance Narratives. Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Daehn, M. (1988). Being disappointed: A phenomenological psychological analysis, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Danto, D. (2004). From Philosophy to Practice: A Hermeneutic Analysis of Existential-Phenomenological Psychotheraphy. Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Danto, E. (2004). Connections between gendered constructions and women's lived experiences in light of feminist awareness: An empirical hermeneutic study. Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Daschbach, H. H.
(1986). Being-in-expectation as experienced by clients initially entering individual psychotherapy: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Davidson, L. (1989). Husserl on psychology: The return to positivity, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Davis, F. S. (1990). Charismatic Christian spiritual healing in two cultural contexts: An existential phenomenological approach, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Day, M. (2002). Home in the Western World: A cultural-Hermeneutic study, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Dech, E. (2000). The experience of a panic attack for persons diagnosed with panic disorder: An empirical phenomenological exploration, Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Deegan, P. (1983). The use of diazepam in an effort to transform being anxious: an empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Willliam Fischer, Ph.D.

DeForest, C. (2007). The bloody truth: A psychological and cultural study of Menstruation as lived and experienced by Women, Director: Eva Simms, Ph.D.

DeMaria, M. (1987). Hating an intimate other: A phenomenological psychological study, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

DeRobertis, E. (2000). The long-term significance of having been psychologically maltreated by one's maternal figure: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

DeRosa, A. P. (1967). Stimulus predifferntiation seen from an experiential point of view, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

DeVries, M. J. (1986). Remembering to perform actions: An empirical phenomenological study of prospective remembering, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Dickerson, P. (1999). Husbands' decisions to institutionalize wives afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Dodson, E. (1996). Being inspired by a teacher: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Donaldson, S. (1991). Hitting bottom in alcoholism as an example of coming to the realization that one must change, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Donegan, T. (1999). Romantic Intimacy: An empirical-phenomenological study of moving toward furthering intimacy, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Dreiss, J. (1972). An empirical phenomenological reflection on the experience and behavior of subjects wearing aniseikonic lenses, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

DuBose, J. T. (2004). Mourning, Evil, and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach. Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.

Duffy, M. (2007). Rorschach and Freud: The role of Psycho-Analysis in the collected works of Hermann Rorschach, Director: Constance T. Fischer, Ph.D., ABPP

Dunn, M. J.
(1974). An idiographic reflective analysis of a brain damaged existence, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Dupille, L. (2002). The Psychological Foundations of Lived Truth: An Empirical Existential Phenomenological Investigation, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Eckenrod, J. (2005). Migraine: An existential phenomenological study. Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Edwards, I. C. (2006). Truth as relationship: The psychology of E. Graham Howe, Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.

Egan, L. J.
(1980). The experience of the subject and the experimenter in the experimental situation, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Ehrlich, J. (1997). The experience of feeling overwhelmed: A phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Eisenstein-Rosan, P. (1999). Letting go of worry: A hermeneutic-phenomenological study of transformation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Eldredge, F. R. (1985). An empirical-phenomenological study of the experience of intentionalities in visual attending to various field situations: Attentional transformation of consciousness, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Embree, S. M. (2004). Encountering ourselves through photography: A visual ethnomethodological inquiry into identity. Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.


Farber, C. (2000). Anorexia Nervosa as reflective of and configured by modernity: An interpretive, cultural phenomenology, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Felder, A. (2004). Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features. Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Fessler, R. K.
(1978). A phenomenological investigation of psychotherapeutic interpretation, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Flaherty, M. T. (1990). A human scientific investigation into being imprisoned, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Fletcher, J. (2002). A Hermeneutic study of generational music: The band Nirvana and cultural change in America, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Flynn, M. (2000). Urban violence and Caucasian youth: An existential phenomenological analysis, Director: Eva-Maria Simms, Ph.D.

Foehl, J. C. (1991). The role of feeling in psychological defense: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Frankel, C. A. (1985). The phenomenology of being angry: An empirical study approached from the perspectives of self and other, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Freedman, J. D. (1996). Speaking one's own voice: Beginning therapists' experiences of authentically appropriating psychotherapeutic technique, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

French, J. (2000). An empirical phenomenological investigation of the resolution of adolescent suicidal ideation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Friday, P. (1992). The lived experience of returning to heroin use after a period of abstinence, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Gainer, M. J. (1990). An empirical phenomenological investigation of communication among alternate personalities in a case of multiple personality disorder, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Gallo, C. (1985). The movement from addiction with alcohol to sobriety: An empirical-phenomenology study, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Gantt, E. (1998). Struggling to empathize: Theoretical reflection on the meaning of human empathy, Director: Suzanne Barnard, Ph.D.

Garza, G. (1996). Bodily disappearance and dys-appearance: An empirical phenomenological investigation of bodily taking up a task, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Ghany, J. (2006). Family identity discourse: A study of ego development in sibling relationships, Director: Bruce Fink, Ph.D.

Giarusso, D. F.
(1969). The relationship of values, actions and mental health, Director: Alice Wagstaff-Verosko, Ph.D.

Giguere, S. (2004). The Poetics of Child Bearing: A Sociohistoric Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth. Director: Eva-Maria Simms, Ph.D.

Glassbrenner, J. (2002). The Experience of Infertility as Described and Shared on an Internet Bulletin Board, Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Goicoechea, J. (2002). The invocation and inscription of mental illness: A phenomenological and hermeneutic study of diagnostic discourse in patient-staff interactions, Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Goldman, Y. (2004). Neurosis and Fantasy: Lacanian Theory and Case Conceptualization Through Three Case Studies. Director: Bruce Fink, Ph.D.

Goldsmith, D. S. (1989). The impactful paradoxical intervention in individual psychotherapy: A phenomenological approach, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Goldsmith, M. (1987). Despair: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Goodson, A. (2004). Integrating Deleuze and Guattari's Theory of Difference into the Practice of Object Relations Therapy. Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Gorscak, B. (1997). Incest and guilt: Am empirical-phenomenological investigation of a long-term effect on female victims in the familial context, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Grabau, M. (1999). An empirical-phenomenological investigation and psychoanalytic reflection on the allure the child has for the pedophile, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Grant, R. (1985). The temporal unfolding of a powerful insight in psychotherapy: an empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Charles Maes, Ph.D.

Gratton, M. (1975). A theoretical empirical study of the lived experience of interpersonal trust, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Greco-Brooks, D. (2003). Feeding Identity: The Critical Hermeneutics of Contemporary Kleinian Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy From the Perspective of a Novice, Director: Martin Packer, Ph.D.

Greiner, D. K. (1964). A foundational-theoretical approach toward a comprehensive psychology of human emotion, Director: Adrian van Kaam, Ph.D.

Grinkis, C. (2000). Delusions of persecution: An existential phenomenological study of a person diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Guarellio, T. (1988). Coming to know another person: An empirical phenomenological study of student's evolving impressions of professors, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Hagan, D. (1971). A phenomenological investigation of positive transformation as experienced by persons in long term psychotherapy, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Halling, S. (1976). The recognition of a significant other as a unique person: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Hamann, T. (1999). Adolescent participation in an unprotected sexual encounter: An empirical existential phenomenological inquiry, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Hannush, M. (1992). On the nature of the relationship biographical and professional values: A challenge to the value-neutrality of the behaviorisms of JB Watson and BF Skinner, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Harper, L. (2006). Interpreting interpretation in psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan, Director: Bruce Fink, Ph.D.

Harper, K.
(2002). Languages and the One: Reflections on Lalangue and Meaning, Director: Bruce Fink, Ph.D.

Harron, S. (1992). Self-reports of the long-term significance of having had an abortion: An empirical-phenomenological investigation, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Havill, A. (2006). Adolescent female embodiment as a tranformational experience in the lives of women: An empirical existential phenomenological investigation, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Henry, C.
(1999). Understanding objectification: A phenomenological analysis of the doctor-patient relationship, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Henschke, P. (1999). An existential-phenomenological investigation of the phenomenon of homesickness and the question of at-homeness in another culture, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Hepburn, J. (1993). The long term significance of child sexual abuse for adult males molested as children, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Herrington, G. (1991). The experience of being bulimic as revealed through the binge episode: An existential phenomenological investigation, Director: Charles Maes, Ph.D.

Hesky, E. (1987). Living with the threat of breast cancer: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Hesky, S. T. (1984). Effective and ineffective personal insight: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Hetherington, D. (2001). Disaster traumas: A phenomenological linguistic analysis of Buffalo Creek flood account, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Hofrichter, D. (1976). Trying-out different comportment through psychodrama: The process of the "possible" becoming viable, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Holtz OSB, V. (1984). Being disillusioned as exemplified by adult in religion, marriage, or career: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Hopkins, C. (1991). A phenomenological study of functional symmetry as manifested in adult hand preference behaviors, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Houk, S. (2003). Becoming Somebody: The Transforming Processes of Learning in a Kindergarten Literacy Program, Director: Martin Packer, Ph.D.

Hunter, J. R. (2003). Burying the dead in contemporary America: A cultural, interpretive study, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Hunt, R. (2007). Project Camelot and Military sponsorship of social science research: A critical discourse analysis, Director: Leswin Laubscher, Ph.D.

Hwang, J. (2004). Struggling with Location: A Collaborative Qualitative Study of Multicultural Counseling Competence in U.S. Psychology. Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Irvine , C. S. (2005). New York City police officers' experiences of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: An existential psychological study. Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Jager, B. (1967). The pretheoretical investigation of Freudian psychoanalysis, Director: Adrian van Kamm, Ph.D.

Jameson, P. A. (2003). How to Design and Implement A support Group for the Healing and Empowerment of Women: An Existential Phenomenological Study, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Janoski, T. (1994). On living situations ambivalently: An existential-phenomenological study, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Jayson, D. (1988). Overcoming obesity: A phenomenological study of women dieting toward maintained weight loss, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Jeffus, D. (1990). In therapy problem-solving from the researcher's perspective, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Johansson, M. (1986). Saying and not saying: A phenomenological study on the client's struggle to say things within therapy, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Johnson, A. (1986). Preschoolers' beliefs about gender, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Jones, D. (1989). Fidelity to a commitment in the face of a challenge, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Joseph, S. (1985). Disclosing one's problem to an intake clinician: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Joseph, A. (2007). Is there a place for sexual difference in Ernesto Spinelli's Existential Phenomenological Psychology? An Irigarayan response to the work of Ernesto Spinelli, Director: Suzanne Barnard, Ph.D.

Journey, R.
(1977). Married women's changing in the context of changing social possibilities, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Jubala, J. (1988). Right hemisphere cerebrovascular accident: A phenomenological study of living through the first three months poststroke, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Kaper, S. (2005). Continuity in the absence of declarative memory in patients with moderate dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Director: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP

Karaku, A.
(1994). Psychological well-being as exemplified by adults' experiences of feeling exceptionally good: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Kashgarian, D. (1999). Self-mutilation: A hermeneutical-phenomenological study, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Kashgarian, G. (1997). Narcissistic Injury: A phenomenological-linguistic study of the experience of feeling criticized, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Keairns, Y. (1980). Reflective decision making: An empirical phenomenological study of the decision to have an abortion, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Kidd, J. (1979). An existential phenomenological investigation of the experience of inspired fellowship, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Kiely, K. (1989). The phenomenon of acceptance as revealed in a caner patient's acceptance of his terminal illness: An existential-phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Knapp, J. (1993). A phenomenological approach to the reconciliation fantasy of the child of divorce, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Knee, T. (1972). A dialogical investigation of the phenomenon of the human body, Director: Rolf von Because, Ph.D.

Kooser, T. H. (2000). The Rorschach Erlebnistypus: An empirical phenomenological investigation of comparative problem solving styles, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Korczyk, D. (2000). Psychotherapeutic change and spirituality: A phenomenological inquiry into their interrelationship

Kracklauer, C. (1974). The drug problem: A hermeneutical social psychological investigation, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Kraft, W. (1965). An existential anthropological psychology of the self, Director: Adrian van Kaam, CSSp., Ph.D.

Kumler, K. (2006). Being touched by music: A phenomenological-hermeneutical approach to understanding tranformational musical experience, Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.

Kunz, G.
(1975). Perceived behavior as a subject matter for phenomenologically based psychology: descriptions of perceived behavior as a function of the presence of the describers, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Lambert, J. (1988). Child abuse which is experienced by the abuser as non-deliberate: An empirical phenomenological investigation into a problem of will, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Leatherbery, S. (1989). The psychology of experiencing compassion for another, Director: Charles Maes, Ph.D.

Leck, P. (2000). Gay men's experience of disclosing their HIV/AIDS Diagnosis: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Lee, W.-L. (1999). People of Taiwanese descent living in America: Constructing ethnic self-understanding, Director: Martin Packer, Ph.D.

LeGates, M. (1995). A phenomenological investigation of the adult woman's experience of feeling compelled to put distance between herself and her mother, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Lennon, F. P. (1969). The experience of role conflict in priest-therapists, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Levi, B. (1976). The coherence of gesture in improvisational dance: An empirical exploratory study informed by Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological ontology, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Levy, C. (1976). The experience of married love we-ness: An empirical existential-phenomenological study, Director: Edward Murray, Ph.D., CSSp.

Ling, J. (1978). Persuasion in selling and teaching from actor-persuader's perspective: An empirical phenomenological view, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Linn, S. (1985). Being depressed: An existential-phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Lucci, M. (2001). A woman's experience of being psychologically intimidated: An empirical-phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Lydon, J. (2000). Leaving home and culture: An empirical phenomenological study of present day Irish immigrants, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Lyons, M. (1978). The movement of everyday conversation in marriage: An empirical and phenomenological study of ongoing relational experience, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Maes, C. (1978). The silent mode of presence: An integrational study of its dynamics in psychoanalysis and client-centered therapy, Director: Adrian van Kaam, CSSp., Ph.D.

Magistro, C. (1988). Relating as an adult with one's parents during young childhood: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Makal, M. (1999). A phenomenological investigation into the experience of living with the stigma of mental illness, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Maloni, J. (1969). An investigation of experimental and overt behavioral correlates in an Asch conformity situation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Mangine, D. (2004). The Appropriation of the Prospect of Taking Medication for Psychological Complaints: An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation. Director: Michaell Sipiora, Ph.D.

Marcano-Davis, C.
(2003). Child Therapists' Anxiousness as Lived During a Therapeutic Encounter With a Child: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Marlan, S. (1981). A phenomenological analysis of a series of spoken dreams in a psychotherapeutic context as a focus for a therapist's understanding of a client's structures of existence, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

Mars, D. (2004). Whiteness as experienced by people of color: An empirical phenomenological study. Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Mattingly, M. (1969). Dimensions of male and female linguistic style differences as revealed on the four picture test, Director: Rolf von Eckartsberg, Ph.D.

McConville, M. (1974). Perception in the horizontal dimension of space: An empirical phenomenological exploration of the perceptual experience of spatial orientation in a life-world situation, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

McDonald, L. (2002). The dynamics of denial: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological exploration of sexual offenders' coming to terms with their offenses, Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

McElwain, B. (2005). Whither Color-Blind Love? A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Love in Black and White, Director: Bruce Fink, Ph.D.

McGraw, S. L. (2007). The relationship between soldier and military working dog during the Vietnam War: An empirical existential phenomenological study, Director: Eva Simms, Ph.D.

McInerney, R. (2005). Learning disabilities: Miscreant brains, pupils, and practices, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

McParlane, J. (2001). Attachment formation and sensory development: A theoretical-heuristic case study, Director: Eva Simms, Ph.D.

Mealy, J. (1972). An empirical phenomenological investigation of swearing, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Melczak, M. (2007). Smoke and mirrors: A cultural-psychological analysis of tobacco use, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Milburn, M. (1992). Forgiving another: An empirical-phenomenological investigation, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Miles, R. (1986). The social psychological transformation of self-other relationships inter-related with menarche, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Miller, D. (1991). Crying in psychotherapy: An empirical-phenomenological study, Director: Amedeo Giorgi, Ph.D.

Miller, M. (1986). Problematic complying: An empirical phenomenological investigation of one type of unassertive conduct, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Miller, Michael (2007). Following the letter: Case studies in the application of Lacanian Theory to Psychotherapy, Director: Bruce Fink, Ph.D.

Mitchell, R. (1975). An existential-phenomenological study of the structure of addiction with alcohol as revealed through the significant life-historical drinking situations or alcohol related situations of one self-confirmed alcoholic male, Director: Edward Murray, Ph.D., CSSp.

Moody, P. (1992). Allergic reaction: A phenomenological study of person's participation in disease, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Morgan, P. (2001). The mastectomy experience; An empirical existential-phenomenological study, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Morley, J. (1988). The private theatre: An empirical phenomenological inquiry into daydreaming, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Morris, H. (1986). Being-in-control-of-one's-drinking: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Morris, R. (1994). An empirical-phenomenological investigation of coming to be more clear about oneself as a psychotherapist-in-training through writing in a personal journal, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Mosack, M. (1999). A structural study of avoidant personality disorder--the role of evaluation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Moss, D. (1984). Appropriation of the obese body as exemplified by female intestinal bypass patients: A phenomenological investigation, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Mruk, C. (1981). Being pleased with oneself in a biologically critical way: An existential phenomenological investigation, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

Mulrenin, K. (1995). Psychospiritual development paths for women who have difficulty praying to masculine images of the divine, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Murphy, M. (1978). The living of low back injury: A psychological phenomenological investigation, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Murray, E. (1969). Morality: A comprehensive-theoretical approach in the light of existential-phenomenological psychology, Director: Adrian Van Kaam, Ph.D., CSSp.

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Nouel, G. (1999). Mothers' transcending their suffering the violent death of their child through supporting and advocating for others: An existential-phenomenological study, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Novinski, K. (2003). Living with Life-Threatening Illness: An Inquiry into Children's Experience of Cancer. Director: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.


O'Boyle, L. (2002). The experience of abandonment by persons diagnosed with borderline personality: An existential phenomenological study, Director: Roger Brooke, Ph.D.

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Orbison, D. (1986). Confessing to an other: A phenomenological investigation, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

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Palazzolo, S. (2007). Demystifying a sexual perversion: An existential reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love, Director: Ezequiel Peña, Ph.D.

Park, M. (2000). Caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's Disease: An empirical phenomenological study, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Perkus, B. (1997). A life-historical inquiry into two cases of Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

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Perrucci, A. (1999). Private parts in public places: A phenomenological study of the experience of privacy in exotic dancers, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

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Petrou, N. (1991). The persistent character of being resentful, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

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Polizzi, D. (2002). The Experience of Antiblack Racism: A Phenomenological Hermeneutic of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Director: Michael Sipiora, Ph.D.

Polizzi, L. M. (2003). On the Edge of Night: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation of Transient/Situational Insomnias, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Pollack, D. (2006). Negotiating boundaries from within: A feminist-psychodynamic investigation of Bulimia and emotional express in context, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

Pope, W. A.
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Poppito, S. R. (2003). Touching Beyond the Skin: An Existential-Phenomenological Study of Being Meaningfully Touched in Long-Term Patient Care, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

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Pursley, T. (1969). Structure theory: Its application of the study of the first seven months of life of the human infant, Director: David Smillie, Ph.D.

Radtke, W. (1969). A study of adult psychological development in the sphere of work, Director: David Smillie, Ph.D.

Ramm, D. (1979). A phenomenological investigation of jealousy, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Rao, R. (2000). The experience of self-cutting: An existential-phenomenological study, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Reed-Barnett, D. (1985). Being renewed in wilderness situations: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

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Richardson, F. (1986). Self-deception as it is exemplified in the life of the alcoholic: An empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: David Smith, Ph.D., CSSp.

Riddle, B. (2006). Normative practices and normative identities: A critical feminist investigation of pregnancy ultrasound, Director: Suzanne Barnard, Ph.D.

Robbins, B.
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Schleifer, M. R. (2007). Bridging the gap between research and practice: Involving group therapists in the development of clinically relevant research questions and methodologies, Director: Leswin Laubscher, Ph.D.

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Selevan, A. (1968). A comprehensive integrational theory of the maternal mode of existence, Director: Adrian van Kaam, Ph.D., CSSp.

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Sherry, R. (1983). Joint decision making: The parental decision to seek psychological help for their child: Am empirical phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Sherry, T. (1986). Transition to motherhood as revealed in an experience of postpartum distress: An empirical-phenomenological investigation, Director: Richard Knowles, Ph.D.

Silberman, R. (1989). The experience of the urge to eat when not hungry, Director: Paul Richer, Ph.D.

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Sullivan, D. (1968). An analysis of sex-characteristics patterns of behavior in figure drawings of first grade children, Director: David Smillie, Ph.D.

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Tieman, G.
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Titelman, P. (1976). A phenomenological study of envy, Director: Edward Murray, Ph.D., CSSp.

Tybl, J. (1993). The movement from unsuccessful to successful smoking cessation: An empirical phenomenological study of self-initiated change, Director: Anthony Barton, Ph.D.

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Wulster-Butler, W. (2002). Adolescents' experience of breaking connections with their mothers: An existential-phenomenological investigation of the interpersonal dimensions of separation-individuation, Director: Constance Fischer, Ph.D.

Zipris, A. (1982). Being lonely: An empirical-phenomenological investigation, Director: William Fischer, Ph.D.

Zuckoff, A. (2002). Motivational Interviewing: An Empirical-Phenomenological Study of the Interpersonal Process and Client Experience of a Counseling Style, Director: William F. Fischer, Ph.D.

   
 
 
 
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