Jacob W. Glazier, PhD, LPC, NCC, has a doctorate degree in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. He has his Master of Science in Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree from Western Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology degree from Augustana College. Dr. Glazier is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of West Georgia. His research revolves around critical theory, subjectivity, and exceptional experiences. He also practices psychotherapy. Dr. Glazier’s work has been published in academic journals that include Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Subjectivity, Mortality, Critical Horizons, Rhizomes, Journal for Cultural Research, and others. He is the author of Arts of Subjectivity (2020) and editor of the PA Book Award-winning Paranormal Ruptures (2023). He is currently working on his next book, tentatively titled Critically Paranormal.
In addition, Dr. Glazier is the Lead Editor of Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association. He is also the co-coordinator of the annual Bill Roll Lecture sponsored by the psychology program and Ingram Library's Special Collections.
You may find additional information and media by visiting his website and social media profiles on LinkedIn and X.
Selected Publications
Glazier, J. W. (2022, December). Feminism at the forefront: A critical approach to exceptional experiences. Journal of Anomalistics, 22(2), 427-446. http://dx.doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2022.427 [View Publication External Resource]
Glazier, J. W. (2022, December). The last god: Lightning of turning in late Heidegger. Journal for Cultural Research, 26(3), 320-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2022.2154936 [View Publication External Resource]
Glazier, J. W. (2022). Clean, death, revolt: Sensual politics during quarantine. Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, 3(1), 188-198. https://awryjcp.com/index.php/awry/article/view/49/24 [View Publication External Resource]
Glazier, J. W. (2021, January). Here lies… Hermetics, psychoanalysis, and ethnocentrism: Using Abraham and Torok to help explain the rise of reactionary social groups. Psychotherapy and Politics International. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1575 [View Publication External Resource]
Glazier, J. W. (2020, October). The paranoia of popular culture: Lacanian psychoanalysis and music videos. The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 8(2.5). [View Publication External Resource]
Glazier, J. W. & Beck, T. (2019). A critical approach to abnormality. In R. K. Beshara (Ed.), A critical introduction to psychology (pp. 233-260). Nova Science Publishers, Inc. [View Publication External Resource]
Glazier, J. W. & Beck, T. (2018, August). Apocalypse, language, temporality: An alien encounter in Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”. Subjectivity, 11(3), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-018-0053-2 [View Publication External Resource]