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Re-evaluating classic work in the sociology of the visual arts, this Ph.D. thesis explores the tacit and practical bases of artistic mediation with reference to curatorial exhibition making in contemporary art. Data presented here derive from a visual microethnographic study of …

Conversion between broad religious groups is a life transformation undertaken by 15% of Americans, yet it has seldom been studied closely from a psychodynamic perspective. The psychological study of conversion began with a Protestant paradigm of sudden and total transformation o…

Recent data suggest that relationship problems is the most common contributing factor to suicide (Stone et al. 2018). In the past two decades, there has been a lack of studies that focus on the relational aspect of suicidality. The present study is an interpretative phenomenolog…