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Daniel Burston

Research

Historical:

  • History of psychoanalysis
  • history of psychology
  • history of psychiatry
  • history of existential analysis
  • history of humanistic psychology
  • history of the human sciences
  • psychohistory
  • history of anti-Semitism

Theoretical:

  • Critical theory
  • hermeneutics
  • psychology of religion
  • psychology and politics
  • interfaith (Jewish/Christian) dialogue
  • ethics
  • evolution and psychology

Dissertations directed:

DuBose, J. T. (2004). Mourning, Evil, and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach, Dissertation Abstracts International, B 65/06, AAT 3137346, 3153, Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
Reader: Roger Brooke, Ph.D.
Reader: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Edwards, I. C. (2006). Truth as relationship: The psychology of E. Graham Howe, Dissertation Abstracts International, B 67/01, AAT 3206952, page 245, Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
Reader: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP
Reader: Stanton Marlan, Ph.D.

Kumler, K. (2006). Being touched by music: A phenomenological-hermeneutical approach to understanding transformational musical experience, Dissertation Abstracts International, B 67/04, AAT 3218082, page 213, Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Director: Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
Reader: Leswin Laubscher, Ph.D.
Reader: Russell Walsh, Ph.D.

Unpublished research:

  • Ressentiment Revisited: Envy, Anger and Mass Movements in the Modern Era

Further research interests:

  • History and philosophy of science
  • utopian social movements

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