Publications
Home to a vibrant community of scholars, authors, and intellectuals writing on the most vital aspects of human life, the Center has carved out a space for writers wanting to produce works as existentially meaningful as they are theoretically rich.
Psychology & the Other Book Series
The Psychology and the Other Book Series highlights creative work at the intersections between psychology and the vast array of disciplines relevant to the human psyche. The interdisciplinary focus of this book series brings psychology, then, into conversation with continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, and social/critical theory. The cross-fertilization of theory and practice encourages the exploration of alternative paradigms and newly articulated vocabularies that speak to human identity, freedom, and suffering. The study and practices of mental health practitioners, psychoanalysts, and scholars in the humanities will be sharpened, enhanced, and illuminated by these vibrant conversations, representing pluralistic methods of inquiry, including those typically identified as psychoanalytic, humanistic, qualitative, phenomenological, or existential.
Aesthetic Ethics: Towards A Moral Imagination
Edited by M. Mookie C. Manalili, David M. Goodman, Diana Boros. 2026.
Hosting Earth: Facing the Climate Emergency
Edited by Richard Kearney, Peter Klapes, Urwa Hameed. 2024.
The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization
Jack Black. 2023.
The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin: Making Sense of Contemporary Experience
Edited by Eric R. Severson, Kevin C. Krycka. 2023.
Neoliberalism, Ethics and the Social Responsibility of Psychology: Dialogues at the Edge
Edited by Heather Macdonald, Sara Carabbio-Thopsey, David M. Goodman. 2022.
Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning: Communication and the Marriage of Minds
Timothy Stephen. 2021.
Madness in Experience and History: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Foucault’s Archaeology
Hannah Lyn Venable. 2021.
Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation towards the Other in Community Mental Health Care: Levinas, Wonder and Autoethnography
Catherine A. Racine. 2021.
Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love
Edited by Aaron B. Daniels. 2020.
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear
Donna Orange. 2019.
Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Uncanny Belonging
Teresa Fenichel. 2018.
A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other
Edited by Aaron B. Daniels. 2025.
Meaningless Suffering: Traumatic Marginalisation and Ethical Responsibility
Edited by David M. Goodman, M. Mookie C. Manalili. 2024.
Levinas for Psychologists
Leswin Laubscher. 2023.
Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney
Edited by Brian Treanor, James L. Taylor. 2022.
misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask
Edited by Matthew Clemente, Bryan Cocchiara, William Hendel. 2022.
Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology
Edited by Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, Miraj U. Desai. 2021.
Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory
Edited by Sheldon George, Derek Hook. 2021.
Trust and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Study in Human Nature
Michael Oppenheim. 2021.
Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion
Matthew Clemente. 2019.
Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Perils of Individualism
Edited by David M. Goodman, Eric Severson, Heather Macdonald. 2019.
Unconscious Incarnations: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives on the Body
Edited by Brian W. Becker, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, David M. Goodman. 2018.
Essays in Psychological Humanities Book Series
The Essays in Psychological Humanities Book Series is home to short, timely, affordable titles authored by today’s leading thinkers on the most pressing and perennial problems we face. Written for academics, practitioners, and educated readers alike, books in this series attempt to address the fundamental human questions of suffering, meaning, mortality, love, and potential—issues of life and death that concern us at the core. Literary in style, philosophical in nature, offering the depth, wisdom, and psychological insight that every inquiry into the human condition aims to uncover, these works are essential reading for thinking persons today and promise to provoke thought and enliven conversation for years to come.
Publications
AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis
Agnieszka Piotrowska, 2026.
Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity
Clint Burnham, 2025.
Cura Psychologia Outputs
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
"Educated by Anxiety?"
Presentation by Mark Freeman, Maughan-Brown, and Peter Fritz at Holy Cross's Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, Worcester, MA, 2025.
"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
"Jesuit Education and the Task of Thinking in Modernity"
Article by Mark Freeman, forthcoming in Jesuit Education Quarterly, 2025.
"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 by Adam Green, Kate Withy, and Frederick Ruf at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2023.
Forthcoming Publications
"Student Anxiety and Aristotelian Existential Crises"
Book chapter by 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?”
Pape, K.M., Rodriguez, J., & Veith, J. during the Critical Conversations Panel at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2024.
"It was warm and comfortable... and the talk was very good: Relationality in academic salons"
Pape, K.M., Rodriguez, J., & Veith, J. at Psychology & the Other, Northeastern University London, 2024.
"Trying to keep peace with life: Melancholic joy and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders"
Pape, K.M. at Psychology & the Other, Northeastern University London, 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.
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion
Housed within Boston College’s Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics and published by Brill, the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship at the intersection of continental philosophy and religion. The journal publishes scholarly articles and book review essays engaging a wide range of topics in continental philosophy of religion.
The journal especially welcomes scholarship in the following areas:
- Phenomenology of religion
- Hermeneutics of religion and interreligious dialogue
- German Idealism and religion
- Psychoanalysis and religion
- Philosophical retrieval of Patristic traditions (Greek, Latin, and Syriac)
- Religious imagination, especially the role of visual arts, cinema, and literature
- Religion and gender studies
- The contribution of theology to political theory and narratives of identity
Selected Contributions
Since its founding, the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion has brought together leading scholars and influential voices in continental philosophy and philosophy of religion, publishing original articles, interviews, and review essays that engage some of the field’s most significant questions and debates.
Submission Information
The Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion welcomes original scholarly submissions. Manuscripts should be 5,000–8,000 words and are submitted through Brill’s Editorial Manager for double-blind peer review. Please consult the full Instructions for Authors for submission requirements and formatting guidelines.
Submit a Proposal
The goal of the Psychology and the Other Book Series and Essays in Psychological Humanities Book Series is to foster the publication of interdisciplinary works that enrich and challenge clinical and scholarly exploration, focusing on human identity, suffering, and potential. We invite manuscripts that contribute to our understanding of these areas. Reviewing past conference programs can offer insights into the range of topics we typically explore.
60,000 to 120,000 word academic volumes and monographs.
The proposal needs to include the following elements:
- Write a 2-page maximum summary of the proposed book.
- Explain in 1-2 paragraphs how the book aligns with the series' interdisciplinary vision.
- Provide a rationale for the book, including target audience, interdisciplinary nature, needs it fulfills, and market competition, with evidence.
- List the table of contents.
- Offer a chapter-by-chapter outline with key references.
- Specify the number of tables, diagrams, or illustrations and if they require redrawing.
- Create a short, market-ready blurb (about 350 words) describing the book's significance.
- Indicate when the manuscript will likely be complete.
- Estimate the total word count of the manuscript (targeting 60,000 to 120,000 words).
To include in the submission portal:
- Completed Proposal Document (refer to previous steps).
- A brief CV for all authors, editors, and contributors, detailing professional qualifications and publishing history.
- Sample chapter(s): At least 1, but no more than 2.
Submission Notes:
- By submitting a manuscript to the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, the author ensures that the manuscript is not under consideration by any other publishers.
- All proposals will be reviewed within 2 months of their receipt.
- For additional questions, contact us at psychumanities@bc.edu.
40,000-word trade-style publications.
The proposal needs to include the following elements:
- Write a 2-page maximum summary of the proposed book.
- Explain in 1-2 paragraphs how the book aligns with the series' interdisciplinary vision.
- Provide a rationale for the book, including target audience, interdisciplinary nature, needs it fulfills, and market competition, with evidence.List the table of contents.
- Offer a chapter-by-chapter outline with key references.
- Specify the number of tables, diagrams, or illustrations and if they require redrawing.
- Create a short, market-ready blurb (about 350 words) describing the book's significance.
- Indicate when the manuscript will likely be complete.
- Estimate the total word count of the manuscript (targeting 40,000 words).
To include in the submission portal:
- Completed Proposal Document (refer to previous steps).
- A brief CV for all authors, editors, and contributors, detailing professional qualifications and publishing history.
- Sample chapter(s): At least 1, but no more than 2.
Submission Notes:
- By submitting a manuscript to the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, the author ensures that the manuscript is not under consideration by any other publishers.
- All proposals will be reviewed within 2 months of their receipt.
- For additional questions, contact us at psychumanities@bc.edu.