Background: Depression continues to be a serious public mental health issue in Saudi Arabia. Cultural stigma, fewer resources, and reliance on medication limits access to evidence-based psychotherapies. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a third-wave cognitive-behavioural intervention that promotes the use of mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and values-based living, which has...
This study examines human communicative experiences with non-corporeal entities, focusing on the relationship between lived experiences and the expectations established within three spiritual traditions: Shamanism, Spiritualism, and New Age. While these traditions differ in historical origin, cultural framework, and modes of ritual expression, each provides sanctioned avenues and methodologies...
There has been much focus in recent years on plant intelligence and the possibility of communication between trees, but very little on the possibility of communication between humans and trees. This dissertation centres on people’s encounters with trees— moments of connection during which a humans experience the ‘beingness’ of trees. I use the definition of ‘encounter’ given by Stephan Harding...
This dissertation undertakes the study of religious experience in religious poetry utilizing the ideas of the twentieth century American psychologist and philosopher William James. James’s ideas that the religious impulse is personal, relational, and experiential with its source in the inner life of the individual provide the lens for this study. Because poetry draws from the inner life for its...
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Kant’s transcendental psychology against the orthodoxy of the dominant analytic school of philosophy, in an aim to salvage it from criticisms that resulted in the widespread view that Kant had little to say about the mind that was correct or useful. Historically, this had led to the near exclusion of Kant’s views of the...