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Daniel Burston Research

Dissertations directed:

Historical:

History of psychoanalysis; history of psychology; history of psychiatry; history of existential analysis; history of humanistic psychology; history of the human sciences; psychohistory; history of anti-Semitism

Theoretical:

Critical theory; hermeneutics; psychology of religion; psychology and politics; interfaith (Jewish/Christian) dialogue; ethics, evolution and psychology

Dissertations directed:

DuBose, J. T. (2004). Mourning, Evil, and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach, Dissertation Abstracts International, B 65/06, AAT 3137346, 3153, Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
Reader: Roger Brooke, Ph.D.
Reader: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Edwards, I. C. (2006). Truth as relationship: The psychology of E. Graham Howe,Dissertation Abstracts International, B 67/01, AAT 3206952, page 245, Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
Reader: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP
Reader: Stanton Marlan, Ph.D.

Kumler, K. (2006). Being touched by music: A phenomenological-hermeneutical approach to understanding transformational musical experience, Dissertation Abstracts International, B 67/04, AAT 3218082, page 213, Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
Reader: Leswin Laubscher, Ph.D.
Reader: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Unpublished research:

Ressentiment Revisited: Envy, Anger and Mass Movements in the Modern Era

Further research interests:

History and philosophy of science; utopian social movements

Link to personal website:

http://www.psychology.duq.edu/faculty/burston/daniel.html