Pacifica Graduate Institute Dissertation Defenses

Human Nature: The Place of J. B. Jackson

Kim Brawn

DATE: Thursday, September 18, 2008
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: Lecture Hall
CANDIDATE: Georgia Bouton Smith
DISSERTATION TITLE: Human Nature: The Place of J. B. Jackson
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: MA/PhD-E; 2003
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Elizabeth Terzian
ADVISOR: Dr. Dawn George
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Sharyn Udall

Please note:
All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

Individuation and the Orphan Archetype: A Phenomenological Study

Kim Brawn

DATE: Thursday, September 18, 2008
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Judy Isaac Conley
DISSERTATION TITLE: Individuation and the Orphan Archetype: A Phenomenological Study
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-B; 2004
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Allen Koehn
ADVISOR: Dr. Lionel Corbett
EXTERNAL READER: Greg Mogenson, MA

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT–TRAUMA LINK AMONG COMBAT VETERANS

Kim Brawn

DATE: Saturday, September 13 , 2008
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: John P. Kempton
DISSERTATION TITLE: "EXTENUATA GERENS VETERIS VESTIGIA POENAE (Bearing the faded scars of the ancient penalty) THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT–TRAUMA LINK AMONG COMBAT VETERANS"
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-A; 2007
CHAIR: Dr. Paula Thomson
READER: Dr. Lisa Sloan
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Albert Erdynast

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

SINGING OVER THE BONES: THE PRACTICE OF BOUNDARY CROSSING IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Kim Brawn

DATE: Thursday, September 11, 2008
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Diana Lee Downing
DISSERTATION TITLE: SINGING OVER THE BONES: THE PRACTICE OF BOUNDARY CROSSING IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-B; 2005
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Allen Koehn
ADVISOR: Dr. Chris Peterson
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Char Schultz

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

THE SHADOW WITHIN: INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA IN GAY MEN AND SAME-SEX DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Kim Brawn

DATE: Saturday, August 23, 2008
TIME: 10:00 a.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Michael Nava
DISSERTATION TITLE: "THE SHADOW WITHIN: INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA IN GAY MEN AND SAME-SEX DOMESTIC VIOLENCE"
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-A; 2002
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Allen Koehn
ADVISOR: Dr. Valerie Mantecon
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. William Tanner

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

Surrender to the Creative Process: A Phenomenological Study of Seven Artists

Kim Brawn

DATE: Sunday, August 10, 2008
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Cheryl Kalter
DISSERTATION TITLE: Surrender to the Creative Process: A Phenomenological Study of Seven Artists
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-A; 2005
CHAIR: Dr. Avedis Panajian
ADVISOR: Dr. Christine Lewis
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Thomas Stone

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

The Father of All: Friction, Splitting, and The Philosophical Assumptions of Depth Psychology

Kim Brawn

DATE: Saturday, August 9, 2008
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Richard F. Ryan
DISSERTATION TITLE: The Father of All: Friction, Splitting, and The Philosophical Assumptions of Depth Psychology
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-A; 2004
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Allen Koehn
ADVISOR: Dr. Connie Zweig
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Lyn Cowan

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

How an Adolescent Female Experiences Aggression: A Phenomenological Study

Kim Brawn

DATE: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Laurel Wiig
DISSERTATION TITLE: "How an Adolescent Female Experiences Aggression: A Phenomenological Study "
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-A; 2003
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Allen Koehn
ADVISOR: Dr. Barbara Lipinski
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Donna Sexsmith

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

Euripides’s Bacchae: Reexamining the Apollo-Dionysus Dichotomy

Kim Brawn

DATE: Saturday, August 9, 2008
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: William S. Wood
DISSERTATION TITLE: Euripides’s Bacchae: Reexamining the Apollo-Dionysus Dichotomy
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: MA/PhD-E; 2006
CHAIR: Dr. Ginette Paris
ADVISOR: Dr. Druscilla French
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Gilles Zenon Maheu

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

Re-thinking Mythological Interpretation: A Dialectical Reading of Cupid and Psyche

Kim Brawn

DATE: Sunday, July 27, 2008
TIME: 5:00 p.m.
PLACE: Room G; Ladera
CANDIDATE: Paul Ryder
DISSERTATION TITLE: Re-thinking Mythological Interpretation: A Dialectical Reading of Cupid and Psyche
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: MA/PhD-E; 2005
CHAIR: Dr. Christine Downing
READER: Dr. Sophia Heller
EXTERNAL READER: Greg Mogenson, MA

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There is plenty of parking available at the Ladera campus--please do not shuttle there.

Children of the Damned: Shadow Object Relations and the Psyche-Somatic Transmission of Psychic Deadness in the Family

Kim Brawn

DATE: Saturday, July 26, 2008
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Jonathan M. Fogel
DISSERTATION TITLE: Children of the Damned: Shadow Object Relations and the Psyche-Somatic Transmission of Psychic Deadness in the Family
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-0; 2007
CHAIR: Dr. Avedis Panajian
READER: Dr. Christine Lewis
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Nancy Wade

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

A Descriptive Rorschach Study of Children Who Have Experienced Chronic Complex Abuse

Kim Brawn

DATE: Sunday, July 27, 2008
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Pamela Meghan Tiedemann-
DISSERTATION TITLE: A Descriptive Rorschach Study of Children Who Have Experienced Chronic Complex Abuse
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-B; 2006
CHAIR: Dr. Avedis Panajian
ADVISOR: Dr. Philip Erdberg
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Mary Lamia

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

How Anger Is Displayed in Sandplay: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Study

Kim Brawn

DATE: Thursday, July 24, 2008
TIME: 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Juanita L. Harb
DISSERTATION TITLE: How Anger Is Displayed in Sandplay: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Study
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-A; 2005
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Allen Koehn
ADVISOR: Dr. Lisa Sloan
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Maria Chiaia

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

A Jungian Depth Perspective on OCD

Kim Brawn

DATE: Sunday, July 13, 2008
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
PLACE: Studio
CANDIDATE: Joseph A. Talamo
DISSERTATION TITLE: A Jungian Depth Perspective on OCD
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: PhD-B; 2007
CHAIR: Dr. Lionel Corbett
READER: Dr. Holly Fincher
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Barry Miller

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All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.

Transgressive Remains: Approaching Philosophy’s Tears by (Not) Thinking Mythos

Kim Brawn

DATE: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Lecture Hall
CANDIDATE: Anais Nineane Spitzer
DISSERTATION TITLE: Transgressive Remains: Approaching Philosophy’s Tears by (Not) Thinking Mythos
PROGRAM-TRACK/YEAR: MA/PhD-E; 2004
DISSERTATION COORDINATOR: Dr. Laura Grillo
ADVISOR: Dr. Ed Casey
EXTERNAL READER: Dr. Richard Kearney

Please note:
All oral defense attendees must shuttle from the Best Western Hotel in Carpinteria.