Louise Sundararajan
Louise Sundararajan was born in Yunnan, China, and grew up in Taiwan. She received her BA in English Literature from Tunghai University, Taiwan, her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University. She chairs the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology, which is joined by near two hundred researchers from around the globe. She served as past president of The International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality...See more
Louise Sundararajan was born in Yunnan, China, and grew up in Taiwan. She received her BA in English Literature from Tunghai University, Taiwan, her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University. She chairs the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology, which is joined by near two hundred researchers from around the globe. She served as past president of The International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning, and also past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association). She is recipient of the Abraham Maslow Award for 2014, from Division 32 of APA. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and also a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Research on Emotions. She serves on the editorial boards of The Humanistic Psychologist , and Journal of Humanistic Psychology . She is Associate Editor for Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology . She has published extensively on topics related to culture and emotions. Outside academia, she practices psychology as a forensic psychologist, and enjoys the family life of a grandmother. See less
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