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Beatrice Institute welcomes Dr. Brent Robbins — Licensed Psychologist and Program Director of the PsyD Program in Clinical Psychology at Point Park University — to close out our undergraduate seminars this spring with this final discussion topic. Dr. Robbins will look at the Beatitudes as an answer to the problem of evil, suffering, and death — applying them through the lens of psychological research on human flourishing. He will also offer and apply insights from several important theorists, e.g., Rene Girard, Viktor Frankl, Ernest Becker.

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Dr. Brent Robbins

Brent Dean Robbins, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has served as President of the Society for Humanistic Psychology and the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. His areas of expertise include the psychology of religion and spirituality, phenomenological and existential psychology, clinical psychology (humanistic, existential and psychodynamic psychotherapies), happiness and the joyful disposition, eudaimonia, human dignity, and death and dying. He is author of The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture: The Cadaver, the Memorial Body and the Recovery of Lived Experience (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).