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Published research topics:
Qualitative:
- biographical-generational neighborhood research
Theoretical:
- Child consciousness and existence
- Goethean Science and Phenomenology
- Rilke
Historical and theoretical:
- history of childhood
- literacy as technology
Dissertations directed:
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.
Bonner, C. W. (1993). An existential-phenomenological investigation of identity confusion as exemplified by adolescent suicide attempts.
Costello, M. (2006). Perceptual coherence: multisensory perception and embodied dynamics
DeForest (Work), C. (2007). The bloody truth: a psychological and cultural study of menstruation as lived and experienced by women.
Flynn, M. (2000). Urban violence and Caucasian youth: An existential phenomenological analysis.
Giguere, S. (2004). The Poetics of Child Bearing: A Sociohistoric Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth.
McGraw, S. (2007). The relationship between soldier and military working dog: an empirical existential phenomenological study
McParlane, J. (2001). Attachment formation and sensory development: A theoretical-heuristic case study.
Stehr, D. (1999). PMS as premenstrual anguish: Experiences of paradoxical feminine subjectivity.
Vantine, H. (2000). Terminating a wanted pregnancy after the discovery of possible fetal abnormalities: A phenomenological study of making and living with the decision.
Williams, N. (2006) On the Day You Were Born: A Phenomenological Study of Fathers' Experience of Being Present at Their Children's Birth
Unpublished research interests:
Underway:
- A study of the psychological changes that literacy brings with it.
- A study of the existential dimension of grammar.
Further research interests:
- Phenomenology and spiritual psychology
- Ecological psychology
- To further develop a chiasmic and radically non-dualistic psychology
- Merleau-Ponty
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