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The Child in the World: Embodiment, Time, and
Language in Early Childhood
E. Simms, Ph.D.
University of Dallas
Director of Graduate Psychology Program
Dr. Eva-Maria Simms studied at the Phillips Universität Marburg in Germany, and received her Ph.D. in phenomenological and archetypal psychology from the University of Dallas, where she studied with R. Romanyshyn, B. Sardello, and J. Hillman.
Dr. Simms' interests are interdisciplinary (psychology, philosophy, poetry, spirituality), but they converge in her writing and research on child psychology. Early childhood offers the opportunity to study the genesis of many phenomena of interest to psychologists and philosophers: embodiment, language, co-existentiality, identity, etc. It also marks a time in human development where consciousness is non-dualistic and pre-Cartesian. In her phenomenological studies, Dr. Simms investigates children's sense of place, things, time, others, and language primarily from a perspective informed by the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. She describes her work as a radically non-dualistic or “chiasmic” psychology, which tries to create a language for dimensions of human experience which -- as long as they are unspoken -- generally remain outside the domain of human thought.
Dr. Simms has also written on Goethean Science and the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She is co-founder of Autumn House Press, a publisher of contemporary American poetry.
