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Bethany Aronson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Psychology
Director of the M.A. in Community Psychology program 


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Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and English, University of Prince Edward Island
  • Master of Arts, Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology: Consciousness and Experience, University of West Georgia

Courses Taught

  • The Child from Conception to Nine
  • Foundations of Critical Psychology
  • Psychology of Evil and Human Destruction
  • Psychopathology: Critical Perspectives
  • Theories of Personality

Background

Bethany Aronson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology. She has her Ph.D. from the University of West Georgia, where she specialized in critical psychology and psychoanalysis. Prior to joining Point Park, Aronson was an assistant professor of psychology at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Ky., and a special needs assistant for children with behavior problems in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

She currently has two solo-authored books, Sexual Difference, Abjection and Liminal Spaces: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Abhorrence of the Feminine, and Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture Through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack, as well as one co-authored book, Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice. Her research and teaching interests include psychoanalytic theory, child development, the psychology of horror and the psychology of love.

Research Interests

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Popular culture
  • Subjectivity and Personality theory
  • Discourse Analysis

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Morris, B. (2024). Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture Through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack. London: Routledge.
  • "Can You Prove You're An Individual?," It's Not Just in Your Head podcast, April 10, 2021.
  • "Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology: An Interview with Bethany Morris," Mad in America, March 17, 2021.
  • Morris, B. (2020). Sexual Difference, Abjection and Liminal Spaces: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Abhorrence of the Feminine. London: Routledge.
  • Morris, B. O’Gwin, C., Grant, S. and McDonald, S. (2020). Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice. London: Routledge.
  • Morris, B and Korobov, N. (2020). Negotiating postfeminist neoliberal discourses within compulsory romance discourses. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.
  • Morris, B. (2018). Loud ladies: Deterritorializing femininity through becoming-animal. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 12(4), 505-521.

Professional Memberships

  • American Psychological Association, Division 24 Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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