Department Member, Social Work
Humanities & Social Sciences Research Associate
Director, Contemplative Studies, The Interdependence Project-Austin; Co-founder, Interdependence Project-Austin
About
Michael Uebel, Ph.D., LMSW, has taught literature and theory at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and the University of Kentucky. He currently teaches seminars and is Director of Contemplative Studies at the Austin branch of the Interdependence Project, which he co-founded. Currently a candidate at the Austin Center for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, he practices as a psychotherapist in private practice and as a medical social worker at a hospital in Austin. Uebel was Fellow at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in 2006-7. He is the author of a wide range of essays on cultural and intellectual history and on mental health practice. Author and editor of several books, including Race and the Subject of Masculinities (Duke University Press) and Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (Palgrave), he is currently working on Masochism in America, examining the formation of moral and social consciousness in the post-war period. Other projects under way include two co-authored writings: a book on the case and memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber and an essay on the schizophrenic vision of Opicinus de Canistris.
He is the developer of the popular FaceBook application Shite Gifts for Academics.
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