Dr Frances Marie Gray



 

"As philosophical counsellors, Frances Gray Mediating can help you to understand the questions you raise about being human, to frame those questions within your life context, and to learn to think differently about your questions and wonderings."
 

Education
  • National Mediation Accreditation System accredited.
  • Voc. Grad. Dip. of FDR, Australian Institute of Relationship Studies, (2010) Sydney, NSW

  • PhD in Philosophy, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia (1996) Thesis: Essentialism and Feminist Theologies

  • Grad. Dip. Ed. Secondary Education, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia (1992)

  • MA in Philosophy, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia (1991) Thesis: The Subject/Object Distinction in Mystical Experiencing

  • BA (Hons) Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia (1975) Majors in Philosophy and History


Employment

  • FRDRP – Centacare New England  

  • Self – employed FDRP and Mediator

  • Full-time FDRP: Relationships Australia, Victoria, June 2010 – September 2010

  • Honorary Research Advisor, School of History Philosophy Classics and Religion, University of Queensland, 2010 - current

  • Lecturer in Philosophy, University of New England, Armidale, NSW Australia 1998 -2000

  • Part-time Lecturer and Tutor in Philosophy, ANU, Canberra, Australia 1994-97

  • Part-time Lecturer and Tutor in Curriculum Studies, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia (1992-1997)

  • Part-time Tutor in Political Theory, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia (1992-1997)
     
  • Secondary Teacher, St. Clare's College, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 1996

  • Part-time Outreach Co-Ordinator, TAFE NSW, Cooma, Australia 1990-91

  • Part-time Teacher, TAFE NSW, Cooma, Australia, 1989 – 1992

  • Full-time Parent 1979 – 1998


Professional Affiliations

  • Member of Australian Society of Continental Philosophy

  • Member of International Association for Jungian Studies

  • Chair, International Association for Jungian Studies, 2006 - 2008


Editorial Experience

  • Deputy Editor International Journal for Jungian Studies 2007 -2009

 
Current Research

  • Cartesian Philosophy and the Flesh: Reflections on Incarnation in Analytical Psychology (forthcoming, 2012) Routledge, London, UK

  • Phenomenologies of Listening: Listening as Fundamental Practice

  • Meditation and Mediation: It's the 't' that makes the Difference

  • 'The Ethics and Phenomenology of Listening' conference paper and presentation December 2010


Publications

Books

  • Jung, Irigaray, Individuation: Philosophy, Analytical Psychology and the Question of the Feminine (2007)Brunner Routledge, London, UK

  • Cartesian Philosophy and the Flesh: Reflections on Incarnation in Analytical Psychology (forthcoming, 2011) Routledge, London, UK


Book Chapters

  • ‘Original Habitation’ in Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering (eds. Sarah La Chance and Caroline Lundquist) (forthcoming)

  • ‘Mystery Appropriated: Disembodied Eucharist and Meta-theology’ inEucharist: Embodied and Embedded in the Land – Interdisciplinary Approaches(eds Kim Power, Claire Rankin, Carol Hogan and Anne Elvey) (forthcoming) London, Equinox Publishing.

  • ‘Plato's Echo: A feminist re-figuring of the Anima’ in Dreaming The Myth Onwards: New Directions In Jungian Thought And Therapy (ed Lucy Huskinson)  (2008) London and New York: Routledge

  • 'A Third Way: Explicating the Post in Post-Christian Feminism' (with Kathleen McPhillips)( 2007)  in Lisa Isherwood and Kathleen McPhillips (eds) Post-Christian Feminisms: A Critical Appraisal. Aldershot, Ashgate Press 

  • 'Brentano' in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Cultural Theorists (2004) (ed Paul Hansom), Bruccoli, Clark  Layman, the Gale Group, MI

  • "Elemental Philosophy: Language and Ontology in Mary Daly's Texts" (2000) in Re-reading the Canon: Mary Daly(Penn State University Press) (General Editor, Nancy Tuana)(eds. Marilyn Frye and Sarah Hoagland) 222 245


Refereed Articles

  • ''My Daddy Was My Hero': Steve Irwin, The Hero Archetype, and Australian Identity' Spring Journal 'Psyche and Nature' Special  Issue Fall 2006

  • 'Walking With Death, Walking With Science, Walking With Living: Philosophical Praxis and Happiness' in Cosmos and History Vol 1, No 2 (2005)

  • "G*d's Excludedness: Outside Language, Outside the World: A Levinasian Reading of Ekklesia Gynaikon" Australian Feminist Studies Special Issue, "Feminisms, Religions, Cultures, Identities" Vol 15 No.30 Spring, 1999.


Book Reviews

  • Journal of Public Theology  ( Vol 3 No. 3 2009) Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society 

  • Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion(Volume 4, 2004) David Cheetham John Hick: A Critical Introduction and Reflection, Aldershot, 2003

  • Sophia, Volume 42 Number 2 October 2003 Mark D. Jordan, The Silence of Sodom and The Ethics of Sex

  • Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 08/03/02 (refereed)  (electronic journal: solicited review) Review of Richard Kearney's The God Who May be: A Hermeneutics of Religion  http//www.ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/3_Kearney.html

  • Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol 79 Issue 2 June  2001 Philosophy and the Maternal Body by Michelle Boulos Walker Review Essay (1997: Routledge London) pp.306 -307


Conference Presentations

  • 2010: Brisbane Australian Society for Continental Philosophy

  • 2008: Joint Meeting of International Jungian Society and International Association for Analytical Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland

  • 2007: Santa Barbara, California

  • 2006: International Association for Jungian Studies, Greenwich UK


Invited Speaker

  • Melbourne October, 2007, "The Uses of Subjective Experience A Weekend of Conversations Between Analysts and Academics Who Work with Jung's Ideas"

  • GraftonInternational Philosophy, Science and Theology Festival: June, 2003 'The Oppositional Tapestry: Sameness, Difference and the Ethical Life': Key Note Address

  • Smith College Department of Philosophy Seminar, New Hampshire, New England, USA October: 2003: 'Consciousness, the Self and Dreaming'
     

What is Philosophical Counselling?
 
We all have questions about being human. We all wonder from time to time what life is about, who we are and how we might live fulfilling and caring lives. We might wonder if God exists, whether or not we survive death, or what it means to be a conscious, rational being. We might wonder what makes us different from other animals; and how we know that something is right or wrong. We might have reached a stage in our lives when change and difference are called for, and we might wonder what to do, where to seek guidance, where to be heard. We might think of  all or some of these wonderings as big questions.
 
Philosophical counselling gives you some insight into how these wonderings and questions have been approached by philosophers from the early Greeks to the present day. Philosophical Counselling is part of what we do at Frances Gray Mediating
 
At FrancesGrayMediating you can talk with a professional philosopher over a negotiated period of time to sort out your questions and wonderings.
 
Professional philosophers at Frances Gray Mediating are academically trained at PhD level. We think clearly and creatively, examine various points of view and their justifications, and construct arguments that can support various responses to the big questions (and any smaller ones).
 
As philosophical counsellors, Frances Gray Mediating can help you to understand the questions you raise about being human, to frame those questions within your life context, and to learn to think differently about your questions and wonderings.
 
We draw on a wealth of professional experience, writing and research which we can use to help you to illuminate the issues in your life.

Contact Dr Frances Gray on 0408 706 850.

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