Bio

Louise Sundararajan 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 is founder and chair of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology, which is joined by over two hundred researchers from around the globe.  She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.  She served as 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 associate editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and editor-in-chief of Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology. (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15445?sap-outbound-id= ) She has published extensively on topics related to culture and emotions, and is the author of one book and co-author of another:

Sundararajan, L. (2015). Understanding emotion in Chinese culture:  Thinking through psychology.  New York, NY:  Springer SBM. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319182209

Ting, R. S-K., & Sundararajan, L.  (2018). Culture, cognition, and emotion in China's religious ethnic minorities: Voices of suffering among the Yi. Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology Series. New York, NY: Springer Nature. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319660585

Reviews of Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture:  Thinking Through Psychology:

Reviewer: Mun, Cecillea, Independent Scholar, United States (cecileamun@icloud.com) My Image Beyond the Image of Louise Sundararajan's Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture, Book Review, Journal of World Philosophies 5 (Summer 2020): 274-281

Reviewer: Gregory J. Johanson, Ph.D.
Presentation/Publisher: Hakomi Forum, 28-29, 2016.

Reviewer: Richard Reilly, St. Bonaventure University
Presentation/Publisher: The Humanistic Psychologist, 2017, Vol. 45m No. 2, 199-206; © 2016 American Psychological Association; 0887-3267/17/$12.00 http://dxdoi.org/1037/hum0000066

Reviewer: Steven Rosen, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

Reviewer: James R. Averill, Professor Emeritus, UMass, Amherst (An Amazon Customer)
Presentation/Publisher: “Exploring the Chinese Mindscape”, by Amazon Customer on December 8, 2015;
Format: Kindle Edition.

Reviewer: Sunil Bhatia, Connecticut College
Presentation/Publisher: Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2016, Vol. 36, No. 4, 256–259; © 2016 American Psychological Association; 1068-8471/16/$12.00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/teo0000051

Reviewer: Ruth Richards, Ph.D., M.D., Professor, Saybrook University.

Reviewer: Richard E. Duus,
Presentation/Publisher: Harmony, Symmetry, Entropy: Emotional Experiencing Compared East to West - A Review of Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture: Thinking Through Psychology by Louise Sundararajan, PsycCRITIQUES, November 30, 2015, Vol. 60, No. 48, Article 8; © 2015 American Psychological Association

Reviewer: Teresa Kuan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Presentation/Publisher: Ethos 45(1):e1-e3

Reviewer: Alvin C. Dueck, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and Yin Yang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
Presentation/Publisher: “Homegrown emotions”, Theory & Psychology, 2017, Vol. 27(1) 135–138; © The Author(s) 2016; Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav; DOI: 10.1177/0959354316669024; journals.sagepub.com/home/tap

Reviewer: Gerald C. Cupchik, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
Presentation/Publisher: Book Review: ‘Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture: Thinking Through Psychology.’
HHS (History of the Human Sciences) Book Reviewer July 25, 2016;

Preface by Buxin Han

Reviewer: Michelle Brenner
Presentation/Publisher: Conflict Resolution Consultant 2015

Reviewer: Steven Bindeman, Ph.D. (Philosophy)

Selected Publications

2011:
Sundararajan, L.  (under review).  Eastern psychologies PDF

Sundararajan, L., and Kim, C. (2011).  Beyond I-you-me: An
empirically supported formulation of the triadic self.  The American Sociologist,42,220-231. PDF

Sundararajan, L.  (in press).  Lost in the Translation: "Chi" and Related Terms of Shame in the Confucian Tradition.  The Emotion Researcher. PDF

Sundararajan, L.  (in press).  Belief, Emotion, and Health: Toward an Integrative Account/Commentary on John Cromby’s “Beyond Belief”.  Journal of Health Psychology. PDF

Sundararajan, L. (2011, August), Mind, machine, and creativity:  Dialogue with an Artist. Presidential Address, sponsored by Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology), at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington DC. PPT

Sundararajan, L. (2011, July), Chinese Notions of Harmony, With Implications for the Development of Indigenous Psychology.  In James Liu (chair), Indigenous and cultural psychology, Harmonization and Differentiation in Theory and Practice, symposium conducted at the 9th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Kunming, China. PDF

Sundararajan, L. (2011).  Spiritual Transformation and Emotion:  A Semiotic Analysis. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 13, 78-90. PDF

2010:
Sundararajan, L. (2010).  Two Flavors of Aesthetic Tasting:  Rasa and Savoring/A Cross Cultural Study with Implications for Psychology of Emotion.  Review of General Psychology, 14, 22-30 PDF

Sundararajan, L.,  Kim, C., Reynolds, M. and Brewin, C. R.  (2010).  Language, Emotion, and Health: A Semiotic Perspective on the Writing Cure. In S. C. Hamel (Ed.), Semiotics:  Theory and Applications(pp. 65-97).  New York:  Nova Science. PDF

2009:
Sundararajan, L.  (2009).  Mad, Bad, and Beyond:  Iago Meets
Qü Yuan.  Emotion Review, 1, 33-34. PDF

2008:
Sundararajan, L. (2008).  It’s Turtles All the Way Down:  A Semiotic Perspective on the Basic Emotions Debate.  Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 28, 430-443. PDF

Sundararajan, L.  (2008).  The Plot Thickens--or Not: Protonarratives of Emotions and the Chinese Principle of Savoring. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 48, 243-263. PDF

Sundararajan, L.  (2008).  Toward a Reflexive Positive Psychology: Insights from the Chinese Buddhist Notion of Emptiness.  In J. C. Christopher, F. C. Richardson, & B. D. Slife (eds.), Thinking Through Positive Psychology, a Special Issue of Theory & Psychology, 18, 655-674. PDF

2007:
Frijda, N. H. & Sundararajan, L. (2007).   Emotion Refinement: a Theory Inspired by Chinese Poetics.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2,  227-241 http://pps.sagepub.com/content/2/3/227 PDF

Sundararajan, L. & Averill, J. R.  (2007).  Creativity in the Everyday:  Culture, Self, and Emotions.  In R. Richards (Ed.), Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature (pp. 195-220).  Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association. PDF

2006:
Averill, J. R., & Sundararajan, L.  (2006). Passion and Qing: Intellectual Histories of Emotion, West and East. In K. Pawlik & G. d'Ydewalle (Eds.), Psychological Concepts: An International Historical Perspective (pp. 101-139). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. PDF

2005:
Sundararajan, L.  (2005).  Happiness Donut:  A Confucian Critique of Positive Psychology.  Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 25 (1), 35-60. PDF

Averill, J. R., & Sundararajan, L. (2005).  Hope as Rhetoric: Cultural Narratives of Wishing and Coping.  In J. Eliott(Ed.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hope (pp. 133-165).  New York:  Nova Science. PDF

2004:
Sundararajan, L.  (2004).  Twenty-four Poetic Moods:  Poetry and Personality in Chinese Aesthetics.  Creativity Research Journal, 16(2 & 3), 201-214. PDF

2002:
Sundararajan, L.  (2002). The Veil and Veracity of Passion in Chinese Poetics. Conscious & Emotion, 3(2),197–228.
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Sundararajan, L.  (2002).  Humanistic Psychotherapy and the
Scientist-practitioner Debate: An “Embodied” Perspective. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 42 (2), 34-47. PDF

Sundararajan, L.  (2002).  Religious Awe:  Potential Contributions of Negative Theology to Psychology, “Positive” or Otherwise.  Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psycholgy, 22 (2), 174-197. PDF

2000:
Sundararajan, L.  (2000).  Background-Mood in Emotional Creativity: A Microanalysis.  Consciousness and Emotion, 1 (2), 227-243. PDF

1998:
Sundararajan, L.  (1998).  Reveries of Well-being in the Shih-p’in: From Psychology to Ontology. In A-T.Tymieniecka Ed.), Analecta Husserliana (pp.57-70), Vol.LVI, Netherlands: Kluwer. PDF