Sebastienne Grant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Psychology
School of Consciousness and Transformation
Pronouns: she/they
Email: sgrant@ciis.edu
Research Interests
Sebastienne’s psychological orientation is grounded in an integration of critical, humanistic, existential, Buddhist, transpersonal, and ecopsychological perspectives. Her work broadly focuses on issues of wellbeing, social justice, prosociality, death anxiety, self and subjectivity, bio/techno-ethics, and trans/posthumanism. Most recently she has been delving into the potential benefits of compassion and service practices and experiences of transcendent interconnectivity in nurturing individual and societal wellbeing.
Education
Ph.D. in Psychology: Consciousness and Society, University of West Georgia, 2018
Dissertation: Beyond buffering: An empirical investigation of the interconnective self-construal as a mediator in existential death anxiety.
M.A. in Psychology, University of West Georgia, 2011
Focus on Humanistic, Existential, and Transpersonal Counseling
Publications
Morris, B., O'Gwin, C., Grant, S., and McDonald, S. (2020). Subjectivity in psychology in the era of social justice, New York, NY: Routledge.
Grant, A. S. (2018). “What exactly are we trying to accomplish? The role of desire in transhuman visions.” In C. Mercer & T. J. Trothen (Eds.), Religion and Human Enhancement: Death, Values, and Morality, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Grant, A. S. (2018). Beyond buffering: An empirical investigation of the interconnective self-construal as a mediator in existential death anxiety (2018-48576-011). ProQuest Information & Learning. (Dissertation)
Podcasts
Compassion and Climate Change with Dr. Sebastienne Grant. Care More Be Better: Circular Living to Benefit and Planet.
Social Issues & the Individual, with Dr Sebastienne Grant [Audio podcast episode]. The Broken Brain.
IMPACT Podcast - Sebastienne Grant. Impact Podcast with Nigel Bennett.
Sebastienne Grant – Critical Psychology for a Better Societ. Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health.