Lisa Cataldo
Biography
Lisa M. Cataldo is a scholar of pastoral mental health whose teaching and research integrate trauma studies, relational psychoanalysis, and spirituality. She holds a Master of Divinity and PhD in psychology and religion from Union Theological Seminary. Her work trains students for pastoral and clinical engagements with suffering through intersecting perspectives of trauma, psychoanalysis, and faith.
Sample Works
- I Know That my Redeemer Lives: Relational Perspectives on Trauma, Dissociation, and Faith (2013) Paper
- Mourning the Religious Self: An Experience of Multiplicity, Loss, and Religious Melancholia (2010) Paper
- Multiple Selves, Multiple Gods? Functional Polytheism and the Postmodern Religious Patient (2008) Paper
- Narcissism and Religious Experience: Kohutian Theory and the Life of St. Francis of Assisi (2007) Paper
Roundtable Appearances
June 8, 2013 · ▶ Video
Altruism and Empathy
The roundtable explores whether selflessness represents a necessary illusion and examines the tension between evolutionary adaptation and pure altruism. It investigates how humans...
Stephanie Brown, Lisa Cataldo, Alan Leslie, Wynn Schwartz