Richard Cohen-Abstract, Why Populism-Fascism Now? Ethics, Power and the Limits of Liberal Democracy
Lisa Kieran-Abstract, Disoriented and Bewildered: Reading Levinas as Phenomenological Experience and its Invaluable Contribution to the Work of Therapy
Anne Gaskins-Abstract, On Being “Enough”: A Levinasian Understanding of Therapeutic Presence, Care, and Love
Edward Durgan-Abstract, Modes of Resistance to Injustice Radically Reframe Human Existence: Levinas and Diversity of Tactics in Social Justice Mobilization
Gerber-Abstract, Malignant Normality and Enlivening Guilt: Two Multicultural Patient's Perspectives
Brian Bergen-Aurand-Abstract, Without Intending: Race, Disability, Justice, and Law Between Levinas and Paul-Emile
Taylor McCarrey-Abstract, Levinas and the Couple: Using Language to Find and Bridge Meaning towards Progression and Justice in Discord Between Partners
Ed Durgan - Abstract, Implicit Apologetics and the Ontological Scalpel of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: A Critique from a Psychological Perspective Inspired by Emmanuel Levinas
Maddox Pratt, "Making Eros Speak: Levinas, Feminism, and the (Re)imagining of Eros"
Maxim Livshetz, M.A., Psy.D. "Candidate & David Goodman, Ph.D.- "Exposed to Exposure: the Ethical Sensibility of Emmanuel Levinas."
Claire Katz- “No one is more self-sufficient than Rousseau”:Dependence, Vulnerability and Levinas’s New Ethical Subjectivity
For abstracts written prior to 2011 please contact the Psychology Department at psychology@seattleu.edu with the paper title and author which are listed below
2011
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
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
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
Kevin C, Krycka Levinas & Gendlin: Joint contributions for a 1st Person approach to understanding difficult situations in the Mid-East
Corey Beals The Ring of Gyges and Fading Exteriority
Dominique Walmsley Sensibility and the Face: Breaking Through the Shame
David M. Goodman and Scott F. Grover Hineni and Transference: The Remembering and Forgetting of the Other
Al Dueck and Elizabeth Welsh An Unfolding of Love in the Works of Kristeva and Levinas Implications for Psychotherapy
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
Brandie Siegfried Levinas, Models of Memory, and the Psychology of Resiliency
Karen Halsey Turning Toward the Other: Reflections on a Pivotal Experience of Alterity, Desire, and Inspiration in Relationship
Claire Steele LeBeau Therapeutic Impasse and the Call of the Other to Keep Looking
John C. Hecker Contemplating an Understanding of Anxiety through Levinas contra Heidegger: Heroism as a Meaningful Treatment Option
Marie McNabb A Saying without a Said, the Opposite of Transcendence: Levinas and the aftermath of the violence of murder in PTSD treatment
Wayne Dykstra Envisioning a Levinas Inspired Psychotherapy
Mitchell Harris and Brent D. Slife Otherness as Fundamental to Relationship in Psychotherapy
Gloria Gage A Levinasian Defense for the Homeless
Pamela Telkamp Lifelong Learning Face-to-Face: Adult Education and the Theories of Emmanuel Levinas
2006
David Goodman Demandedness: An Alternative to the Normal Bell Shaped Self
Jeff Warren: Is the Mystery of Music the Mystery of the Other?
George Kunz: Levinas psychoanalysis
Melissa Geib: To Caress the Other: Emmanuel Levinas and Psychotherapy
John Hacker: Displacing Individualism with a Paradigm of Others; Considering the Role of Ethnicity in Moral Character Development
Brian Becker: Self as Other? A Levinasian Analysis of Carl Jung’s Concept of the Self-Ego Relation
David Harrington: Wish You Were Here
Anna Orton: The Paradoxical Power of the Symptomatic Child; An Integration of Levinisian Ethics and Family Systems Theory
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.
David Goodman Demandedness: An Alternative to the Normal Bell Shaped Self
Jeff Warren: Is the Mystery of Music the Mystery of the Other?
John Hacker: Displacing Individualism with a Paradigm of Others; Considering the Role of Ethnicity in Moral Character Development
Anna Orton: The Paradoxical Power of the Symptomatic Child; An Integration of Levinisian Ethics and Family Systems Theory
Trevor Slocum: From Pride to Humility
2005
Richard Cohen - On the way to a Levinas Inspired Psychology for the Other
Dueck and Goodman - Substitution and the Trace of the Other: Levinasian Implications for Psychotherapy
Grimesey - The Tragedy of Domestic Violence: Dynamics and Solutions as Understood Through the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
Harrington – Time and Weighing: Theodicies of Everyday Life
George Kunz – How is Responsibility Therapeutic?
Paul Marcus – Love Without Lust
Steele - On the way to Interiority: The need for facade and the therapeutic process towards revelation
Warren – Do I Know You? Memory, Trauma and the Other
Williams and Gantt - Emmanuel Levinas: Exploring the Possibility of a Meaningful Psychology of Religion