Applied Philosophy of Life: Private Practice involving western and eastern approaches to integral wellbeing.

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Qualifications, training, research

•  PhD Philosophy of Religion (Boston University, 2005);

•  American Philosophical Practitioners Association Certification, New York, 2010

•  Research and publications with an interdisciplinary concentration at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, theology:
   

Melancholy and the Otherness of God: Study of the hermeneutics of Depression

(Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)

“The Arousal of Freedom,” in Unfinished God: The Speculative Philosophical Theology of Ray L. Hart. Under
review by Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology book series. Estimated
publishing date October 2024.

“Transparency of the Good,” in D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring, ed. Lissa McCullough and Elliot R.
Wolfson.

State University of New York Press.

“Melancholia: Passing Through and Beyond,” in The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva, ed. Sara G. Beardsworth,
Library of Living Philosophers vol. 36, Southern Illinois University Carbondale/Open Court Publishing.

“Retrieving Existential Aspects of Jaspers’s Psychopathology in View of Contemporary Neuroscience,”

Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts 10, no. 1 (spring): 33-39.

“The Self as Temporalized Being: From Heidegger to Levinas,” essay included in Time, Place, and Self in
Interdisciplinary Narratives. Journal of the Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality,
New York.

“Karl Jaspers on Melancholy,” Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts 3,
no. 2 (fall): 10–20.

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“Morbid Psyche and Apocalypse: Jaspers, Baudrillard, Altizer,” article in Existenz: An International Journal in
Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts 6, no. 2 (fall): 31–36.