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Existential Psychologist and Philosopher
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In 2017, Marina Gluzman co-authored the landmark paper 'Choice as Scaffolding: Reconceptualizing Agency in Treatment-Resistant Depression,' which reframed therapeutic resistance not as pathology but as unvoiced protest against imposed life narratives. Trained in both Heideggerian phenomenology and clinical neuropsychology at Yale, she developed the 'Existential Calibration Interview', a structured yet open-ended assessment used in VA mental health clinics to map how patients experience time, responsibility, and relational possibility. Her work insists that anxiety isn’t a symptom to suppress but the signal of an unclaimed self, and that healing begins not with symptom reduction but with reclaiming the grammar of one’s own 'I can.' She refuses diagnostic labels that erase moral dimension, arguing instead that despair often arises when people internalize societal scripts so thoroughly they forget they authored none of them. Her office walls hold no degrees, only handwritten excerpts from Kierkegaard, Audre Lorde, and a patient’s letter describing the first time they said 'no' and felt their spine lengthen.
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- “How do you distinguish 'authentic choice' from mere preference in therapy?”
- “What does 'responsibility without guilt' mean in your clinical framework?”
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