Psychology Department
Professor Emerita
Ed.D., Harvard University
Fields: History and philosophy of psychology; cultural psychology; sociocultural studies of psychology/psychiatry; theories of personality
贰尘补颈濒:听skirschn@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-2589
Office: Beaven听332
PO Box: 127A
Biography
Suzanne R. Kirschner听is Professor of Psychology at the 海角社区 in Worcester, MA.听 From 2013-2016, she also served as the Director of College Scholar Programs. 听She has been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Critical Social/Personality Psychology at CUNY Graduate Center, 听the Department of the History of Science at Harvard, and the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts. She has also been a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She holds a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and received her doctorate from Harvard University, where she also taught. She is the author of听The religious and romantic origins of psychoanalysis: Individuation and integration in post-Freudian theory听(Cambridge University Press), as well as numerous articles on the interconnections between psychological theories/practices and sociocultural forces. Kirschner is co-editor (with Jack Martin) of The sociocultural turn in psychology The contextual emergence of mind and self听(Columbia University Press, 2010). 听She serves on the editorial boards of several journals and book series, including Qualitative Psychology, Theory & Psychology, the Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, and Palgrave Studies in the History & Theory of Psychology. Her current project,鈥淭he indispensable subject of psychology,鈥 draws on psychological anthropology, sociocultural and literary theory, philosophy of mind and other fields to further develop and legitimize psychological approaches for studying subjectivity (complex first-person processes formed within sociocultural contexts).
Beginning in August 2018, Kirschner will serve as the President of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry (SQIP), which is Section 3 of Division 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods) of the American Psychological Association (APA). In 2004-2005, she was President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Division 24). She is a Fellow of Divisions 5 and 24 of the APA.
Awards
Theodore Sarbin Award for Distinguished Contributions to Narrative Psychology (American
Psychological Association)
Arthur O鈥橪eary Faculty Recognition Award (海角社区)
Distinguished Service Award, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (American Psychological Association)
Distinguished Service Award, Society for Psychological Anthropology (American Anthropologial Association)
L. Bryce Boyer Award in Psychoanalytic Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology (American Anthropological Association)
Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Harvard College)
Larsen Doctoral Research Fellowship (Harvard University)
Lois Morrell Poetry Prize (Swarthmore College. 听Judge: Robert Creeley).
Selected Publications
Kirschner, S.R., Levitt, H., Osbeck, L. & Hammack, P. (2023) A decade of qualitative
psychology: Reflections and recommendations from Associate Editors. Qualitative Psychology,
10 (3), 383-390.
Bhatia, S. & Kirschner, S.R. (2022a). Culture, Context, and Coloniality: Bhatia鈥檚 Decolonizing
Psychology and Kirschner鈥檚 Sociocultural Subjectivities In H. Macdonald, S. Carabbio-Thopsey
& D. M. Goodman (Eds.), Neoliberalism, Ethics and the Social Responsibility of Psychology:
Dialogues at the Edge. Routledge.
Kirschner, S.R. (2022b). Subjectivity. In B. Slife, F. Richardson, & S. Yanchar (Eds.) Routledge
international handbook of theoretical and philosophical psychology. Routledge.
Kirschner, S.R. (2020a) Beyond the oversocialized conception of the subject in psychology:
Desire, conflict and the problem of social order. Theory & Psychology, 30 (6).
Kirschner, S.R. (2020b). Challenges for a psychological humanities of personhood. In J.
Sugarman & J. Martin, A humanities approach to the psychology of personhood. Routledge
Kirschner, S.R. (2019a). Indigenous psychology compared to what?: Some complexities of
culture, language and social life. Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, 39 (2).听
Kirschner, S.R. (2019b). The indispensable subject of psychology: Theory,听subjectivity and the specter of inner life: In T. Teo (Ed.), Re-envisioning theoretical psychology. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan.
Kirschner, S.R. (2015a). Subjectivity as socioculturally constituted experience. In J. Martin, J.听Sugarman & K, Slaney (Eds.). Handbook of theoretical psychology. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ
Kirschner, S.R. (2015b). Inclusive Classrooms. In G. Scarlett (Ed.), Classroom Management: An A to Z Guide. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Kirschner, S.R. (2013).听 The many challenges of theorizing subjectivity.听听Culture & Psychology听(19), 225-236.听doi:听
Kirschner, S.R. (2013).听 Diagnosis and its discontents: Critical perspectives on psychiatric nosology and the DSM.听听Feminism &听Psychology(23), 10-28. doi:听
Kirschner, S.R. (2012).听 Do therapists really 鈥榤ake up鈥 their patients?: Review of Mikkel Borch-Jakobsen鈥檚听Making minds and madness.听 Theory &听Psychology(22), 860-863. 听doi:
Kirschner, S.R.听 (2012).听 How not to 'other' the other: Scenes from a psychoanalytic clinic and an inclusive classroom.听听Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 32听(4), 214-229. doi:听
Kirschner, S.R. (2011).听 Critical thinking and the end(s) of psychology.听听Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 31听(3), 173-183 .听doi:听https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024698
Kirschner, S.R. (2010).听 Sociocultural subjectivities:听 Progress, prospects, problems.听Theory &听Psychology,听 20听(6),听听765-780.听doi:
Kirschner, S.R. (2006).听 Psychology and pluralism: Toward the psychological studies.听听Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol 26(1-2),1-17.doi:10.1037/h0091264