Dissertations in Progress

Copies of the dissertation proposals are available for review in the Department Office.
Anyone wishing to get in touch with an author should contact the Psychology Department at psychology@duq.edu or 412-396-6520.

Arndt, Karin--Women and solitude: A hermeneutic existential analysis

Callanan, Jessica--How People become sex offenders: A study of their constitution at the intersection of the legal and mental health systems

Chiang, Meng--Soujourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students

Fitzpatrick, Teal--Primitive defenses and unilateral termination of psychotherapy

Fratoni, Mark--Christian Mystics and psychoanalysis on the questions of subjectivity: A radical hermeneutic study

Futrell, Julie--Symptom versus structure: A Lacanian approach to working with obsession: A case study and theoretical exposition

Hall, Travis--Trauma & disaster: Witness, testimony, and obligation

Hallinan, Thomas--Addiction to prescripton drugs: An empirical phenomenological and constructionist study

Hamer, Joseph--Where and when things fall apart: Relating narratives of post-election violence in Kenya

Jungwirth, Jeb--The ethical imagination in psychotherapy: A hermeneutical study

Kurdieh, Ibrahim--The influence of loving-kindness meditation on everyday experiences of being angry: An empirical phenomenological study

Lebeau, Claire--Maternal Guild: An existential phenomenological study of the early experiences of first-time mothers

Maddox, Cody--Psychotherapy as constitutive practice

Mahone, Denise--The visible and invisible aspects of miscarriage: A hermeneutic, imaginal study