Leadership & Recognition

Gabriel Fortes holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Education funded by an ANID grant. He currently serves as Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), where he bridges academic research with public policy impact. He leads research at the Educational Equity Observatory (MEC/UFAL) and works as a senior researcher in the development of the School Trajectory Protection System (SPTE/MEC), a national initiative aimed at preventing school dropout and supporting at-risk students across Brazil. His research interests lie at the intersection of technological development, educational inequalities, and applied cognition, with a particular focus on designing evidence-based educational solutions. His work seeks to translate insights from cognitive science into scalable interventions that promote equity, strengthen learning trajectories, and address structural challenges within the Brazilian public education system.

Samuel C. Gable, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and pediatric psychologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his clinical practice, he specializes in developmental disorders and provides bilingual (English and Spanish) psychotherapy and comprehensive psychological assessments within a multidisciplinary pediatric clinic. His work integrates developmental psychology, family systems, and culturally responsive care to support children, adolescents, and their families facing complex neurodevelopmental and emotional challenges. Mostly unreconciled from his chosen career, Samuel writes on topics of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theology, with specific interests in Jacques Lacan, Søren Kierkegaard, and Romantic irony. He is the author of the forthcoming book Lacan for the Faithful: Christianity and Psychoanalysis in the New Dark Age, to be published in the Palgrave Macmillan Lacan Series. The work offers a sharp, faithful engagement between Lacanian thought and Christian theology amid the spiritual and cultural disorientation of our technological age. Following its publication, Samuel plans to embark on a major new project with his pseudonym.

David Goodman is Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies, the Executive Director of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, and serves on the faculty in three Boston College departments: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Philosophy, and Formative Education. Dr. Goodman has written over a dozen articles on continental philosophy, Jewish thought, social justice, and psychotherapy. Dr. Goodman currently serves as the Series Editor for the Psychology and the Other Book Series with Routledge. He has authored and edited over a dozen books including The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identity in Psychology (with Duquesne University Press, 2012) and Psychology and the Other (with Mark Freeman and Oxford University Press, 2015). Dr. Goodman is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has a private practice in Boston, MA.

Justin M. Karter, PhD, is a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist whose work sits at the intersection of depth psychotherapy, the psychological humanities, critical psychology, and the philosophy of mental health. He serves as Acting Program Director for the in-development PsyD in Clinical Psychology and Psychological Humanities at Boston College, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics. Dr. Karter is also currently President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Division 24 of the American Psychological Association, and the Research News Editor for Mad in America, where he covers critiques of (and alternatives to) mainstream mental health discourse.

Mookie is a psychotherapist, professor, and researcher – interested in suffering, embodiment, meaning-making, narratives, trauma, memory, and ethics. He is a Licensed Independent Certified Social Worker (LICSW) psychotherapist in private practice, which blends narrative therapy, psychoanalysis, logotherapy, mindfulness traditions, and body-based techniques. Mookie is a Part-Time Faculty for the School of Social Work (i.e., Narrative Therapy, Adult Psychological Trauma) and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience (i.e., Introduction to Psychopathology) at Boston College. Additionally, he is co-leader of the Psychological Humanities Lab: Ethical Research and Clinical Practices. Mookie is honored to serve as the co-chair for Psychology and the Other, as well as an Associate Editor for its namesake series with Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. Currently, Mookie resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and is also pursuing a PhD in Pastoral Theology & Psychology at Boston University.

Javiera Navarro-Marshall is Assistant Professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile. She holds a degree in Psychology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, an MSc in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology from King's College London, and an MA in Observational Studies from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and the University of East London. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Her research focuses on new family forms, origin stories, and narrative identity. She is a child psychotherapist and Director of the Master's Program in Relational Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents at Universidad Alberto Hurtado.

Sofia Rietti is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at Boston College. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Colgate University and an M.A. in Mental Health Counseling from Boston College. Her work sits at the intersection of philosophy and clinical practice, drawing on feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, and phenomenological ethics to explore ethical and existential dimensions of mental health care. Through her research, she hopes to deepen philosophical understandings of suffering, embodiment, and relationality while bringing critical insights from therapeutic practice into conversation with contemporary philosophical thought. She is also involved with the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics and the Cura Psychologia Project.