My published writings are diverse, mostly focused on emancipatory arts-based research methods for psychology, and creative approaches to trauma healing for individuals and the collective.
PUBLICATIONS
Gupta, N., Karter, J., Ingle, M., & Morrill, Z. (2025). The Love of Art and the Art of Love: Brent Robbins and Arts-Based Phenomenology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology,
Gupta, N. (2025). Integrating spiritual emergency through visionary art therapy: A Jungian autoethnography of psychospiritual trauma healing to benefit the collective. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
Gupta, N. (2024). Arts-based research as a cultural therapeutic: Facilitating sexual empowerment for Desi women across the diaspora through South Asian erotic folk art. International Journal of Education and the Arts.
Gupta, N. (2024). DESI EROS: Reclaiming South Asian erotic power through arts-based phenomenology and Hindu epistemology. Qualitative Psychology.
Gupta, N. and Zieske, C. (2024): Arts based phenomenological research: Theory and praxis. Qualitative Psychology.
Gupta, N. (2023). Finding God in the bedroom: The sacred goodness of sexual pleasure. Eros and Psyche: Humanistic and Existential Approaches to Sex and Sexuality. University Professors Press.
Head, JC., Gupta, N., Korobov, N. (2023). Reflecting back and imagining forward: Qualitative inquiry in psychology at the dawn of a new era. Qualitative Psychology.
Gupta, N. (2022). Truth, Freedom, Love, Hope, and Power: An existential rights paradigm for anti-oppressive psychological praxis. The Humanistic Psychologist.
Greene, E. and Gupta, N. (2021). Introduction to the special issue on the cultural therapeutics of film. Journal of Humanistic Psychology: Special issue on Film as Cultural Therapeutics.
Gupta, N. (2020). Teaching phenomenological research as a method of therapeutic art-making: A Covid-19 case study. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin.
Gupta, N. (2020). Illuminating the trauma of the LGBTQ closet: A cinematic-phenomenological study and film about existential rights. Qualitative Research in Psychology.
Gupta, N. (2020). Singing away the social distancing blues: Art therapy in a time of coronavirus. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Special issue on Covid-19.
Gupta, N., Simms, E., and Dougherty, A. (2019). Eyes on the street: Photovoice, liberation psychotherapy, and the emotional landscapes of urban children. Emotion, Space and Society.
Gupta, N. (2019). The phenomenological film collective: Introducing a cinematic-phenomenological research method for social advocacy filmmaking. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Gupta, N. (2018). Harnessing phenomenological research to facilitate conscientização about oppressive lived experience. The Journal of Humanistic Psychology; Special issue: Radical Humanism, Critical Consciousness, and Social Change.
Gupta, N. (2018) Stories of faith, stories of humanity: Fusing phenomenological research with digital storytelling to facilitate interfaith empathy. Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology: Creative Representations of Qualitative Research.
Gupta, N. (2017). Exploring the schizoid defense of the closet through the existential-phenomenology of R.D. Laing. The Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 5(2), 170-189.
Gupta, N. (2015). The cinematic chiasm: Evoking societal empathy through the phenomenological language of film. Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, 14(2), 35-48.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Gupta, N. (2025). “Honoring the Beautiful Complexity of Human Nature through Arts-based Phenomenology.” Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists annual conference, sponsored by Duquesne University. Virtual.
Gupta, N. (2025). “Integrating Spiritual Emergency through Visionary Art Therapy to Benefit the Collective: A Jungian Autoethnography.” APA Div 32 Society for Humanistic Psychology conference. Atlanta, GA.
Gupta, N. (2024). “The Phenomenologist as Indian Yogi: Exploring phenomenology as a transpersonal method of inquiry through Hinduism’s epistemology of divine revelation.” APA Div 5 Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology conference. Santa Cruz, CA.
Gupta, N. Morrill, Z. Hoffman, L., Rubin, S. (2024). “Humanistic Psychology: the next 25 years.” APA Div 32 Society for Humanistic Psychology conference. Ann Arbor, Michigan
Gupta, N., Bhatia, S. Morrill, Z. (2023). “Radical Vulnerability as an Ethical Demand for Liberatory Qualitative Research” APA Div 5 Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology conference. Santa Cruz, CA.
Gupta, N., Fountain, LJ, Zieske, C., and McWeeney, L. (2023). “Phenomenological Filmmaking: Theory and Praxis.” APA Div 24 Society for Philosophical and Theoretical Psychology conference. Boston, MA.
Gupta, N., Freeman, M., and Sugarman, J. (2023). “What are the psychological humaniities and why should they matter?“ APA Div 24 Society for Philosophical and Theoretical Psychology conference. Boston, MA.
Boyd, S., Gupta, N., Ramsey, N., and Windsor, E. (2022). “Supporting Students and Faculty of Color.” Innovations in Pedagogy Annual Conference, University of West Georgia. Carrollton, GA.
Gupta, N., Stefanyshyn, M., and Visse, M. (2022) “Aesthetic Spaces for Healing and Care: Theories and Approaches.” Health Humanities Consortium Virtual Conference.
Gupta, N. and Weiner, T. (2021). “Qualitative Inquiry in a Global Pandemic: Reflections and Future Directions,” APA Div 5 Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology Virtual Conference.
Gupta, N. (2021). “DESI EROS: A decolonizing study of South Asian women’s experiences of reclaiming of erotic power through surrealist folk art.” Society for Psychological Anthropology Virtual Conference.
Gupta, N. and Fountain, LJ. (2021). “Phenomenological Art as a Vehicle for Women’s Liberation,” The Association of Women in Psychology Virtual Conference.
Gupta, N. (2019). “Illuminating the LGBTQ Closet through Phenomenological Filmmaking: A Cinematic-Phenomenological Research Study and Film Screening.” APA Div 32 Society for Humanistic Psychology Conference. Oregon State University: Corvallis, OR.
Gupta, N. (2018) “Eyes on the Street: Using Photovoice as a Tool for Emotional Empowerment and Community Trauma Healing among Youth.” International Human Science Research Conference: Spartanburg, SC.
Jenkins, J., Gruner, D., Gupta, N. (2018). “Research as Sociopolitical Intervention.” APA DIv 5 Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Gupta, N. (2017). “Building Intimate Dialogue within the Multicultural College Classroom: Guideposts from Liberation Psychology.” APA Division 32 Society for Humanistic Psychology Conference: Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA
Gupta, N. (2016). “Nightmares of the Closet Across the Generations: A Psychoanalysis of Intergenerational LGBTQ Trauma.” APA DIv 29 Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Conference, Rutgers, NJ.
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