The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Office of Research and Academic Support (ORAS) is pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural CIIS Dissertation Abstracts with an introduction from Provost Kathy Littles. This compilation reflects the exciting research completed by the 2022-2023 graduates from PhD programs in the School of Consciousness and Transformation and the Clinical Psychology Doctorate (PsyD) in the School of Professional Psychology and Health.
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CIIS Dissertation Abstracts 2024-2025
Dissertation Office
This compilation of 69 dissertation abstracts reflects the exciting research completed by the 2024-2025 graduates from PhD programs in the School of Consciousness and Transformation and the Clinical Psychology Doctorate (PsyD) in the School of Professional Psychology and Health at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
The original and impactful doctoral research presented here spans psychedelic studies and mental health; embodied approaches to healing and trauma; explorations of social justice, identity, and lived experience; ecological awareness and environmental renewal; spiritual and transpersonal transformation; and the evolving dynamics of digital life, culture, and relationships, and so much more.
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CIIS Dissertation Abstracts, 2022-2023
California Institute of Integral Studies
This compilation of dissertation abstracts reflects the exciting research completed by the 2022-2023 graduates from PhD programs in the School of Consciousness and Transformation and the Clinical Psychology Doctorate (PsyD) in the School of Professional Psychology and Health at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
The original and impactful doctoral research presented here spans diverse areas of scholarship from anthropology and social change to human sexuality, philosophy and religion, and whole person approaches to psychology, demonstrating the breadth and depth of transformative and integral inquiry happening at CIIS. The transdisciplinary nature of these dissertations reflects the richness and complexity of contemporary knowledge needed to address complex social challenges.
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CIIS Dissertation Abstracts 2023-2024
California Institute of Integral Studies
This compilation of 60 dissertation abstracts reflects the exciting research completed by the 2023-2024 graduates from PhD programs in the School of Consciousness and Transformation and the Clinical Psychology Doctorate (PsyD) in the School of Professional Psychology and Health at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
The original and impactful doctoral research presented here spans the interaction between humans and nature, children’s sexual rights, ancestral rituals as a resource for psychospiritual wellbeing, the effects of closed adoption, mystical feminine jouissance, embodied experiences of highly sensitive activists, intentionally designed spaces for persons with dementia, enneagram type and patterns of sexual desire, psychedelic usage in psychospiritual evolution, and so much more.
