Research & Publications
Presentations
"The Influence of Faith Socialization Practices on Character Formation & Social Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Analysis"
Presented by Joshua R. Snyder, Scott Seider, and Elisa Magri at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Assembly on Faith, Justice, and Reconciliation. July 2024.
"The Influence of Parents’ Faith Socialization on Young Adults' Self-Reported Character Strengths"
Poster presented by Scott Seider, Elisa Magri, and Joshua R. Snyder at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. August 2024.
Forthcoming Publications
"Cultivating Civic Virtue and Educating for Peace: Insights from Transitional Justice"
Forthcoming publication by Joshua R. Snyder, Scott Seider, and Elisa Magri in the Journal of Christian Ethics. Expected 2025.
Presentations
"The Mystery of Anxiety and the Anxiety of Mystery"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the biennial conference on Psychology and the Other, Northeastern University, UK, 2024.
"Qualitative Inquiry Through the Psychological Humanities: Opportunities and Challenges"
Moderator and discussant role by Mark Freeman at the Annual Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), Boston College, MA, 2024.
"Living an Autoethnographic Life: Writing Through/Living Through Illness, Loss, and Trauma"
Participant role by Mark Freeman, alongside Carolyn Ellis, Chris Poulos, and Pat Sikes, at the Conference on Autoethnography’s Calling: The Past, Present, and Future, St. Pete’s Beach, FL, 2024.
"The Anxiety of Psychology"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, Boston College, MA, 2023.
"The Forming and De-forming of Persons in the Culture of Self-Enclosure"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the biennial conference on Psychology and the Other, Boston College, MA, 2023.
"Awakening the Narrative Unconscious: Deferred Action, Historical Memory, and the Return of the Repressed"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at Narrative Matters 2023, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
"Defining and Conceptualizing the Psychological Humanities"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Boston College, MA, 2023.
Publications
"Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology"
Book by Mark Freeman, published by Routledge, 2024.
"The Promises of Qualitative Research Revisited: 10 Years of Qualitative Psychology"
Article by Kenneth J. Gergen, Mark Freeman, and Ruthellen Josselson, published in Qualitative Psychology, 2023.
"Why “Psychological Humanities”?"
Article by Mark Freeman, published in the Society for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter, November 2023.
"The Urgency of Hope in a Time of Despair"
Article by Mark Freeman, published in Possibility Studies and Society, 2023.
"The Inevitability, and Danger, of Narrative"
Book chapter by Mark Freeman in The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Presentations
"‘Flow’ States? Endurance Sports and the Zen Mind"
Paper presented by Laura Specker at the 12th East-West Philosophers’ Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2024.
Presentations
"Sister Disciplines in Dialogue: The Virtues Necessary for Interdisciplinary Exchange"
Presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2023.
Forthcoming Publications
"Student Anxiety and Aristotelian Existential Crises"
Book chapter by Adam Green, Frederick Ruf, and Kate Withy. Expected 2025.
Presentations
"Presencing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Temporality"
Panel of talks presented at the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Los Angeles, CA, 2024.
"Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Possibilities, Problems, and Priorities"
Roundtable discussion on the challenges of pursuing interdisciplinary scholarly work. Loyola Marymount University, 2024.
"Melancholic Joy and the Care of the Self"
Lecture delivered as part of the Psychological Humanities and Ethics Lecture Series. Boston, MA, 2023.
"Attending to the Particular: Finding God in All Things"
Presentation at Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise conference, Boston College, 2022.
"The Joy of Yes, in the Sadness of the Finite"
Keynote address at the Ricoeur Society conference. CSU Dominguez Hills, CA, 2022.
"The Practice of Silence"
Presentation at the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, CA, 2022.
Publications
"Each Thing Selves: Finding God in All Things"
Essay by Brian Treanor in Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise: The Jesuit Ideal, edited by Jeffrey Bloechl and Pat Byrne. Published by Jesuit Sources, Boston, MA, 2024.
"Homo Viator: Conversion and Community"
Essay by Brian Treanor in Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society, edited by Krijn Pansters and Anton ten Klooster. Published by De Gruyter, Berlin, 2024.
"A Hard and Brutal Mysticism"
Essay by Brian Treanor in Metaphor, Making, Mysticism, edited by Louise Nelstrop and Lydia Shahan. Published by Routledge, London. Forthcoming, 2024.
"Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body"
Co-edited with Brian Treanor, Richard Kearney, and James Taylor. Published by Routledge in the Philosophy and the Other series, 2022.
"Humanities on a Burning Planet"
Essay by Brian Treanor published in Philosopher’s Magazine, 2022.
Presentations
“Can Psychology Improve Lives and Solve the World’s Challenges Without a Grounding in the Humanities?”
Presented by Kathleen Pape during the Critical Conversations Panel at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2024.
“Not Being Fully at Home: Attending and Tending to Haunting”
Presented by Jerome Veith at Psychology & the Other, Boston College, 2023.
“Home Repair: Haunting, Anxiety, and the Unconscious”
Presented by Jerome Veith at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle University, 2023.
Books
"Kierkegaard: Psychological Insights and Practical Applications"
Edited by Andrew Stojkovich, Matthew Clemente. Forthcoming, Routledge, 2025.
"The Necessity of Character: Moral Formation and Leadership in Our Time"
James Mumford, Ryan S. Olson. Finstock & Tew Publishers, October 2024.
"The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology"
Edited by David M. Goodman & Matthew Clemente, Routledge, 2023.
"Posttraumatic Joy: A Seminar on Nietzsche’s Tragicomic Philosophy of Life"
Matthew Clemente, edited by Andrew J. Zeppa, Routledge, 2023.
"Technology and Its Discontents: The Perils of Ethical Distancing"
David M. Goodman & Matthew Clemente, Oxford University Press, 2023.
"misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask"
Matthew Clemente, B. Cocchiara, and W. Hendel. Routledge, 2022.
Publications
"Absurdism as an Existential and Spiritual Diversity Consideration in Psychotherapy"
S. Sandage, L. Startup, and Matthew Clemente. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, under review, 2025.
"The Funeral Man: Reflections on Repetition, Choice, and Human Freedom"
W. Hendel, D. Goodman, and Matthew Clemente. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, forthcoming, 2025.
"Towards an Anthropological Perspective on Human Flourishing in Education"
James Arthur, David M. Goodman, & Matthew Clemente. British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024.
"Psychology’s Moral Awakening"
D. Goodman & M. Clemente. The Hedgehog Review, Supplement to Volume 26, Issue 1, 23–28, 2024.
"Technological Prosthesis: Defending Against Mortality"
D. Goodman & M. Clemente. In When the Gods Have Fled: Being Human in the Age of Machine and the Market, eds. Alvin Dueck and Louise Sundararajan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
"Psychologies of the Earth"
M. Clemente. In Hosting Earth: Facing the Climate Emergency, eds. Richard Kearney, Peter Klapes, & Urwa Hameed. Routledge, 2024.
"Who is My Neighbor? The Temptation of Ethical Distancing"
D. Goodman & M. Clemente. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 15, Issue 8, 2021.
Conference Papers and Presentations
"Flourishing in the Face of Anxiety: Reflections on Our Techno-Therapeutic Age"
Matthew Clemente & David M. Goodman. Presented at the 13th Annual Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues Conference, Oriel College, Oxford University, 2025.
"Cultivating Dialogue: The Work of the Psychological Humanities"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at the Educating Character Across Differences Conference, Winston-Salem, Wake Forest, NC, 2024.
"Mental Hygiene or Mental Health?: How Psychology Can Contribute to Flourishing in Medicine"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at the Kern National Network Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2024.
"Cura Psychologia: Caring for and Cultivating Psychological Science"
Matthew Clemente, David Goodman, Shelly Xue, Sophia Shieh, Sofia Rietti, and Allison Lynch. Presented at the American Psychological Association (APA) Convention, Seattle, WA, 2024.
"Human in the Age of Market and the Machine: A Roundtable Discussion"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at the Annual Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP) Conference, Boston, MA, 2024.
"‘Man is a Machine’: Remaking the Human Subject in the Image of AI"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at APA Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2024.
"Scaling Toward Virtue: Moral Leadership and Organizational Growth"
Matthew Clemente & David M. Goodman. Presented at the 12th Annual Jubilee Center Conference, Magdalene College, Oxford University, 2024.
"The Temptation of Ethical Distancing"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture Fellows Reading Group, University of Virginia, 2023.
"The Hermeneutics of Ambivalence: Interpreting the Technological Age"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at the APA Conference, Washington, DC, 2023.
"Mental Gorging and the Spectacle"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at the 21st International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, 2023.
"A Morally Anemic Psychology"
Matthew Clemente & David M. Goodman. Presented at the 11th Annual Jubilee Centre Conference, Oriel College, Oxford University, 2023.
"Constructing the Psychological Humanities Annual Spring Conference"
Antonio Taiga Guterres, Chair. Presented at APA Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2023.
"Rebels Dwell in a Dry Land: Living in Exile with Camus"
Matthew Clemente. Invited Lecture at Woolf University Public Seminars, 2022.
"Technological Prosthesis: Defending Against Mortality"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at Anthropology, AI, and the Future of Human Society (online), 2022.
"Transcending Finitude and the Trauma of Death"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at APA Division 39: Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Conference, 2022.
"Why Philosophy?: An Introduction for Psychologists"
Matthew Clemente. Invited Lecturer, Samaritan Counseling Center, 2022.
"Psychological Humanities and Ethics: Epistemic Access from Psychology, Theology, and Philosophy Panel"
Matthew Clemente. Presented at APA Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Annual Conference (online), 2022.