Eros & Psyche (Volume 1: Philosophical & Theoretical Perspectives)

Chandler Batchelor, MA, holds a BA in psychology and comparative literature and an M.A. in health humanities, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently working toward completing a PhD in counseling psychology at the University of Memphis. Her clinical interests include trauma work and identity exploration. Her research interests include asexuality, mental illness identity, and how individuals come to adopt certain identity labels to make sense of themselves and navigate their world. Her work has been published in the Journal for Sex and Relationship Therapy and on Emory University’s peer-reviewed Neuroethics blog.

Sara K. Bridges, PhD, is the Co-Director of Training and an associate professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Memphis. Dr. Bridges is also the co-director of the Coherence Psychology Institute and a certified trainer and supervisor of Coherence Therapy. She is a recipient of the distinguished Teaching Award for the University of Memphis and an active scholar of constructivism and sexuality. Dr Bridges has co-edited the five-volume Studies in the Meaning series. She is a past president of both the Constructivist Psychology Network and the Society of Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association). Dr. Bridges is also a licensed psychologist in Tennessee and New York with a distance based private practice.

Kathleen M. Collins, PhD (she/her), earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published numerous articles and book chapters related to qualitative methods, psychotherapy process, and mental health concerns of sexual and gender minority individuals. She currently specializes in providing affirmative psychotherapy to sexual and gender minority clients at Psychology Specialists of Maine.

Callum Cooper is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), holding postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods and education, from the University of Northampton, Sheffield Hallam University and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has a long-time association with the University of Northampton and is based there as a senior lecturer in psychology, delivering classes and conducting research on Death and Bereavement, Positive Psychology, Human Sexual Behaviour, Parapsychology, and Research Methods.

Micah Ingle is a PhD Candidate in Psychology: Consciousness and Society at the University of West Georgia. His recent work addresses individualism and neoliberalism in the practice of psychology, as well as the ameliorative potential of group work. More broadly, he is interested in human science-oriented psychology, liberation psychology, critical masculinities/gender theory, and Continental philosophy—particularly phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism. Micah works for Mad in America where he covers research exposing the underside of mainstream psychology and psychiatry. He is also passionate about teaching, where he tries to balance issues of social justice and cultural context with experiential pedagogy grounded in humanistic psychology.

Stanley Krippner, PhD, has held faculty appointments at Akamai University, Fordham University, Kent State University, New York University, Saybrook University, Sofia University, and the California Institute for Integral Studies. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Parapsychological Association, the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and the Society for Humanistic Psychology. Krippner is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, which granted him its 2002 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Development of Psychology. He is co-author of the award-winning book Personal Mythology, and co-editor of the award-winning book Varieties of Anomalous Experience and has published over 1,000 peer-reviewed articles.

Heidi M. Levitt, PhD (she/her), is a Professor in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is Incoming Editor for Qualitative Psychology and has been an Associate Editor for the journals Psychotherapy Research and Qualitative Psychology and is a past-president of the Society of Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology. An advocate for pluralistic methodologies, she chaired the development of the SQIP recommendations for reviewing and designing qualitative research and of the qualitative and mixed methods APA journal article reporting standards. Her research programs focus on psychotherapy research, with a focus on clients’ experiences and therapists’ intentionality, on LGBTQ+ gender identities and communities and on healing from stigma-related events. In addition to her research, Dr. Levitt teaches students to conduct experiential therapies and is a licensed psychologist. She adopts an integrative approach to psychotherapy and intervention development rooted in constructivist, humanistic, and feminist-multicultural orientations but drawing on psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral conceptualizations.

Zenobia Morrill, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Department at William James College. Her research interests include critical and liberation psychology, psychotherapy, qualitative methods, and decoloniality. She also serves as the Senior Research Associate of the Psychology Humanities and Ethics Center at Boston College; fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association; and as a board member of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (STPP) and the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP). She is an Editorial Board Member for the Psychology and the Other Book Series and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.

Brent Dean Robbins, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the PsyD program in Clinical Psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA. He has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University. He is a former President of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of APA), and has served on the Executive Board of the Society for General Psychology (Division 1) and Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24). Dr. Robbins is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and recipient of the Carmi Harari Early Career Award (Division 32). He is author of The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture: The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience (2018, Palgrave Macmilan).

Steve Speer is a researcher operating out of New York City.

Digby Tantam, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and University of Sheffield, visiting professor of psychology at Middlesex University and a director of the Existential Academy. He is a group analyst, and has published books on autism, neurobiology, psychotherapy, public health and emotional well-being amongst other topics.

Joel Vos, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA, is a psychologist, philosopher, and therapist. He works as a Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Metanoia Institute in London. He is Director of IMEC International Meaning Events and Community. Dr Vos has published over 160 articles and chapters. His recent books include The Psychology of COVID-19 (Sage, 2021), The Economics of Meaning in Life (University Professors Press, 2020), Mental Health in Crisis (Vos, Roberts & Davies, Sage, 2019), and Meaning in Life: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Practitioners (Bloomsbury, 2019). His forthcoming books include Doing research in psychological therapies: a step-by-step guide (Sage), and COVID-19 and Beyond: Psychological, Existential and Therapeutic Perspectives on mental health and meaning (Vos, Russo-Netzer & Schulenberg, University Professors Press). Dr Vos’ recent research focuses on clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and building evidence-based conceptual models of humanistic and existential therapies, meaning in life, social movements, critical psychology, and social justice. Read more on his personal website: https://joelvos.com.