Research Projects at Existential and Humanistic Psychology

Existential and epistemic dimensions of illness perception in functional disorders

The project explores how patients with functional disorders understand and manage their illness by shedding light on both epistemic (knowledge-related and cognitive) and existential (life-related and meaning-making) dimensions. Furthermore, it examines how clinical interventions such as diagnostics and patient education can support both of these aspects of living with a functional disorder.

Meaning in life after cancer: Validation of the Sources of Meaning Card Method (SoMeCaM) among participants in cancer rehabilitation

Research project by Victoria Holm Sørensen.

Medical doctors and psychologists' existential communication with patients with chronic illness: Conversation or nonversation?

Research project by Aida Hougaard Andersen. Project period: 01.06.2017 - 31.05.2020.

Stuck between youth and family life – an identification of adolescents' experiences and needs during their mother’s course of breast cancer

Research project by Anne Katrine Hartmann Poulsen.

Architectural Psychology

How the "built” world and nature affect people is the content of one of psychology's newer disciplines - architectural or environmental psychology. Project manager: Kaya Roessler.

Existential Communication in Psychologists’ Education and Psychological Practice: A Practice-Oriented Study in Clinical Psychology of Religion

Authors: Aida Hougaard Andersen (Project Lead), Kirsten Kaya Roessler, Heidi Frølund Pedersen, Dorte T. Viftrup. We investigate psychology students’ approaches to existential themes in their education, and how they can learn to address existential conditions and the diversity of life orientations among clients and patients.

Is skillful bodily self awareness healthy

A phenomenological investigation of how athletes versus non-athletes handle low back pain. A research project by Susanne Ravn and Emily Madley.

Towards a Phenomenology of Movement Praxis

The Monograph contributes new knowledge on how meaning-making and experiential value are created in and through the movement praxes of dance, sports and martial arts activities. Research project by Susanne Ravn.