Joseph Maffly-Kipp is a fourth-year graduate student in Clinical Psychology at Texas A&M University. He grew up in North Carolina and attended Bates College for his undergraduate degree. His research interests lie at the intersection of existential psychology and mental health/illness, particularly surrounding concerns about mortality, meaning, and identity. Specific areas of inquiry have involved the relationship between mood disorders and meaning-making, fluctuations in self-concept/self-definition over time, and the existential function of conspiracies and psychotic delusions.
