Hello, my research interests and leanings are of philosophical inquiry, psychoanalysis, thanatology, and family systems. As a doctoral student and psychotherapist, I seek to bridge the gaps in clinical practice concerning grief and death, through the integration of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and family therapy. Although finding the common links in areas of alethiology with both East and West cultural contexts.
I am largely a Freudian, Kleinian, Jungian, and Spielreinian researcher in terms of psychoanalytic applications; including, the family systems pioneers that stemmed from a psychoanalytic devising. In regard to Western philosophy, I have a primary presenting interest in Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato of Greece, as well as Immanuel Kant, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz of Germany; the 17th century enlightenment thinkers, and analytical philosophy. I have a background in metaphysical and theological variants.
Dissertation Proposal:
Primarily qualitative methods in research concerning a psychoanalytic perspective pertaining to grief stages and death anxiety. Considering psychoanalytic frameworks in clinical application and the philosophic underpinnings in thanatology, specifically.
Cheri L. Hausmann MA, LMFT-A, PhD Student
Texas Woman's University
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The psychoanalytic, philosophical, and metaphysical ponderings of death. Including, heuristic interpretations in devising psychotherapeutic applications and thanatological philosophy in areas of grief.
- The death drive theory is one of great scrutiny throughout the history of psychoanalysis. I look into the specific devising of the theory as a cross-sectional analysis, with a primary focus on the work of Sigmund Freud, Sabina Spielrein, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein.
- I look into the psychoanalytic associations with ancient Egypt and the afterlife; with notions of anthropologic a priori.
- I consider Socratic discourse and Greek myth in shaping the philosophical context when looking at life's most profound enigma.
- I orient readers in the work specific to 17th century enlightenment thinkers, including Wilhelm Leibniz, in their explication of thanatological reflection.
- I present a psychoanalytic theoretical presentation when contemplating the stages of grief and clinical implications in death anxiety.
Projected completion date: June 2023