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Elizabeth Sarah George, PhD, is a psychologist and academic specializing in Organizational Psychology, qualitative research, and the integration of traditional healing practices with psychotherapy. She completed her PhD in Psychology from CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, with a doctoral dissertation titled “The Lived Experience of Well-Being in Married Indian Corporate Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study.” Her doctoral research explored the lived experiences of well-being among married corporate professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic through a transcendental phenomenological framework.
She holds an MPhil in Psychology and an MSc in Clinical Psychology from CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, and a BA (Honours) in Psychology from Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her research journey began with her MPhil dissertation, “Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,” which examined the possibilities of bringing traditional healing approaches into contemporary psychotherapeutic practice using qualitative methodology. Her early research work established her continuing interest in the relationship between culture, healing, psychological processes, and psychotherapy.
Her broader research interests lie at the intersection of psychotherapy, indigenous and traditional healing systems, psychoanalysis, well-being, and qualitative inquiry. She is particularly interested in understanding traditional and indigenous healing practices across cultural contexts and exploring how their underlying knowledge systems, symbolic frameworks, and therapeutic practices may be meaningfully engaged with contemporary psychotherapy. Her interests also extend to psychoanalytic perspectives on the self, meaning-making, identity, and psychological experience, as well as the broader cultural and social contexts within which healing takes place.
She has presented her research at international academic forums, including the Trends in Psychology Summit (2021), organized by Harvard University Women in Psychology, where she presented a poster titled “Domestic Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” She also presented “Positive Coping in Corporate Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single Case Study” at the International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (ICSSH-22) held in Kollam, India, on 20 March 2022.
Her academic interests are grounded in a multidisciplinary and culturally sensitive approach to psychology, bringing together psychological, phenomenological, anthropological, and culturally situated understandings of human experience. She is particularly interested in research that creates dialogue between established psychotherapeutic traditions and culturally embedded systems of knowledge and healing.
George, E. S., & Wesley, M. S. (2021). Marital stress and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 8(1), 1992085. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2021.1992085
Conference Presentations
George, E. S. (2021). Domestic Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Poster presented at the Trends in Psychology Summit, organized by Harvard University Women in Psychology, November 12, 2021.
George, E. S. (2022). Positive Coping in Corporate Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single Case Study. Paper presented at the International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (ICSSH-22), March 20, 2022.
Specialized in Organizational Psychology and PhD dissertation on the “Lived Experience of Well-Being in Married Indian Corporate Professionals during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study.
MPhil Dissertation was on “Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” Link to the MPhil thesis has been shared below http://archives.christuniversity.in/disk0/00/00/78/81/01/Elizabeth_Sarah_George_1730052.pdf
Two published research papers are in Scopus indexed journals. The link has been shared below.
George, E. S., & Wesley, M. S. (2021). Marital stress and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 8(1), 1992085.https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2021.19920852.
George, E. S., Antony, J. M., & Wesley, M. S. (2022). Positive Coping and Well-being of Corporate Professionals during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Single Case Study. Journal of Positive School Psychology, 6(3), 5189-5194. https://www.journalppw.com/index.php/jpsp/article/view/2956/1912/
Research Interests
Indigenous healing practices form around the world and how it can reintegrated into mainstream psychotherapeutic practices
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School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Bengaluru
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