Department: School of Communication Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Department of Psychology
Areas of expertise:
- Suicide & Mental Health
- Death
- Flight Anxiety
- Existential Psychology (the science of being and becoming)
Harvell-Bowman teaches courses in Existential Psychology and Advocacy.
Harvell-Bowman’s research focuses on the importance of mental health and investigating the cognitive distortion present among patients experiencing suicidal ideation as a way to mitigate death anxiety and the corresponding therapeutic techniques that are informed by existential and attachment-based perspectives.
Harvell-Bowman earned a bachelor's degree at the Univeresity of Kansas, a master's degree at Wichita State University and a doctorate at the University of Oklahoma.
Media contact: Chad Saylor, saylorcx@jmu.edu.
In the news
- Wichita travelers anxious but pressing forward after deadly plane crash (KAKE)
- Coping with flight anxiety after an airline tragedy (WHSV)
- JMU faculty talk love and loss (Daily News-Record)
- Flight anxiety with Dr. Lindsey Harvell-Bowman (Rick Steves Over Brunch)
- How a death anxiety theory fires up abortion debate (Kiowa County Press)
- This mortal life, COVID-19 (Ernest Becker Foundation)
- Halloween and coping with death (VPM)
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