Currently, I am searching for a suitable PhD program that will allow me to study in interdisciplinary terms the issue of prayer and health (see my article for more details).
I am interested in understanding the psyche in a framework that emphasize relationships, social context, cultural setting, and historical background.
Some of the questions related to the complex relationship between culture - subjectivity - health:
* Is it more to prayer than just a coping technique? Could it aid significantly the healing process in certain conditions?
* Is there a cluster of bio-psycho-socio-cultural factors that could influence clinically significant the cancer survival rate?
* Is there a way to make placebo phenomena more predictable, given the lack of specificity and control over the many variables involved?
Academic interests:
- Religion, Spirituality, Healing and Health Outcomes; Prayer research and health; ASC; Subjectivity; Ritual and healing process; Self and identity (the influence of culture and context on identity construction); Self and illness narrative; Embodiment and mind-body interaction; Faith and health in secular society; Contemporary Esotericism; Narrative inquiry; Habitus; Autoethnography
- Transpersonal studies; Medical and Psychological Anthropology; Anthropology of Consciousness; Anthropology of Religion; Psychology of Religion; Critical Health Psychology; Cultural Psychology; Sociology of health and illness; Psycho-oncology
2010 - present: Associate Circulation Editor - International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (IJTS).
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