Core Team
We are a group of interdisciplinary scholars, researchers, and practitioners who are dedicated to revitalizing philosophical, theological, and psychosocial traditions in psychology in order to augment our moral vocabulary for understanding clinical work within the context of a higher ethical calling.
Conference Chairs
David Goodman
David Goodman is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and External Relations, Director of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, and an Associate Professor of the Practice in Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. 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 with a private practice in Boston, MA.
Michael Mookie Manalili
M. Mookie C. Manalili is a psychotherapist, professor, and researcher with particular interest in suffering, embodiment, meaning-making, narratives, memory, and ethics. He is a psychotherapist in a private group practice, utilizing narrative therapy, psychoanalytic approaches, mindfulness traditions, and body-based techniques. He is also Part-Time Faculty at Boston College's School of Social Work and Research Consultant for the Morality Lab and the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics.
Aaron B. Daniels
Aaron B. Daniels is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Psychology Department at Northeastern University and serves as a Mindfulness Fellow in the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service. Additionally, he is a Research Fellow with Psychology & the Other and leads the Psychological Humanities Research Group. A psychotherapist in Seattle for 10 years, he worked in community and private practice, achieving LGBT-specialist status. His current research centers on the ‘inscrutably alien’ and spiritual direction, a field in which he completed certification in 2022. Film, science-fiction, and ‘weird’ literature are frequent additions to his classes and research.
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