presentations

Gimeno, R. (June 2023). Unearthing Ghosts: Embracing the Uncanny and Horrifying in Grief. Paper presented at the 39th PSYART INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS, Il Fuligno – CSF Montedomini, Florence, Italy

Gimeno, R. (June 2022). Wearing the ghost: Death, objects, and adornment. Paper presented at the 38th PSYART INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS, University at Albany, New York, NY. (Conference online due to Covid19 pandemic).

Gimeno, R. (June 2021). Pregnancy loss: the trauma of invisibility and the power of symbolization. Paper presented at the 37th PSYART INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS, Faculty of Human Sciences of the Université du Québec à Montréal. Québec, Canada. (Conference online due to Covid19 pandemic.)

Gimeno, R. (2020). An empirical-phenomenological study of women's negative experiences encountering pornographic imagery. Paper accepted to be presented at the 2020 Conference of the Society for Qualitative Research in Psychology (SQIP), Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Conference cancelled due to Covid19 pandemic.)

Gimeno, R. (2019). Crossing the River Styx: Underworld descent and women’s individuation processes. Paper presented at the 36th PSYART INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria.

Gimeno, R. (2017). To love the goddess: Journeys to and from the underworld as expressed in myth, feminine writings, and psychotherapy. Paper presented at the 34th PSYART INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS, Pontificia Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy.

Gimeno, R., Vargo, S., Belton, G., Hershman, C. (2017).  Compassionate Voices: The Transformative Power of Poetry in the Invocation of Love, Value and Service in a Troubled World. Panel discussion at the 10th Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, Point Park University, Pittsburgh.

Gimeno, R. (2016). The image as dream: Reflections on heartbreak, archetypal Imagery, and Gustave Moreau’s painting ‘A Dead Poet Being Carried by a Centaur’. Paper presented at the 33rd  PSYART INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France.

Gimeno, R. (2015).  War on women, War on world: Intersections of environmental degradation, denial of reproductive rights, and destruction of the female body under capitalism. Paper presented at the Ecopsychology Symposium, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. 

Gimeno, R. (2014). Ecofeminism and Humanistic Psychology. Poster session presented at the 122nd APA Convention, Division 35, Washington, DC.

Gimeno, R. (2014). Reflections on radical Christianity. Paper presented at the Psychology and Spirituality Symposium, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Gimeno, R. (2012) Torture and the effects on the brain. Poster session presented at PsySR’s 30th Anniversary Conference: the psychology and the Occupy Movement: Synergies for Social Change, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Washington, DC.

Gimeno, R. (2012).  Choosing Death, an Existential Freedom. Poster session presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

Gimeno, R. (2010). Liberation Theology. Poster session presented at Point Park University’s First Human Rights Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.

Gimeno, R. (2010).  Jesus as an existential hero: Discourse analysis. Poster session presented at Point Park University’s Undergraduate Conference for the Humanities, Pittsburgh, PA. (2010)

Gimeno, R. (2010).  The phenomenology of heartbreak. Poster session presented at Point Park University’s Undergraduate Conference for the Humanities, Pittsburgh, PA.

Gimeno, R. (2010).  Apologizing and embracing: Reflections on Nietzsche’s collapse. Poster session presented at Point Park University’s Undergraduate Conference for the Humanities, Pittsburgh, PA.

Gimeno, R. (2010).  Apologizing and Embracing: Reflections on Nietzsche’s Collapse. Paper presented at Duquesne University’s Undergraduate Conference for Psychology, Pittsburgh, PA.

publications

Gimeno, R. (2021). The ghost of a muse: A psychologist’s love of Anaïs Nin [Editorial]. Black Flowers Arts Journal.

teaching positions

past positions

Point Park University, adjunct instructor, Undergraduate Psychology Department

Duquesne University, adjunct instructor Undergraduate Psychology Department