Adjunct Faculty
Telephone: (747) 279-4586
Email: manalili@bc.edu
suffering, meaning-making, narratives, embodiment, psychopathology, morality, ethics
Mookie is a psychotherapist, professor, and researcher—interested in suffering, embodiment, meaning-making, narratives, trauma, memory, and ethics.
He is a Licensed Independent Certified Social Worker (LICSW) psychotherapist in private practice, which blends narrative therapy, psychoanalysis, logotherapy, mindfulness traditions, and body-based techniques.
Mookie is an adjunct faculty member for the School of Social Work (i.e., Narrative Therapy, Adult Psychological Trauma) and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience (i.e., Introduction to Psychopathology) at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College. Additionally, he is co-leader of the Psychological Humanities Lab: Ethical Research and Clinical Practices.
Mookie is honored to serve as the co-chair for Psychology and the Other, as well as an Associate Editor for its namesake series with Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. He has given dozens of academic presentations and professional workshops in the fields of psychology, philosophy, theology, and social work.
Currently, Mookie resides in md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç, Massachusetts, and is also pursuing a PhD in Pastoral Theology & Psychology at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç University—and researching with the Danielsen Institute's Center for Study of Religion and Psychology.
In all his various roles, Mookie hopes to participate in our duty to better our society: particularly for folks who suffer injustices; for the widow, orphan, and stranger; for a future and world beyond one's self. If you'd like to chat about therapy/research or about life's mysteries over tea (or bourbon), feel free to reach out to Mookie via email!
Manalili, M.M.C. (2027). Re-storying/re-storing embodied narratives: Narrative therapy and the ethics of interpretation. [Chapter in preparation: de Muijnck, D. A. & Moenandar, S. J. (Eds.), Ethical applied narratology: A handbook and a research agenda]. Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College.
Manalili, M.M.C. (2026). Embodied articulations: Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur on word-and-flesh beyond trauma. [Chapter in preparation: E. Harrison & J. Dall’Aglio (Eds.), Lack and flesh: Contemporary Lacanian perspectives]. Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College.
Manalili, M.M.C., Jankowski, P. & Sandage, S.J. (2026). Differentiating symptom alleviation from well-being: Flourishing disparity between racialized groups in psychodynamic psychotherapy. [Manuscript in preparation: Counselling and Psychotherapy Research]. Danielsen Institute, md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç University.
Manalili, M. M. C., & Sandage, S. J. (2026). Suffering, trauma, and relational integration: Re-envisioning spiritual care and psychoanalysis in a decolonial age. Religions, 17(8), Article 954.
Sandage, S.J., & Manalili, M.M.C. (2026). Relational integration of psychology and Christian theology in spiritual care. In D. S. Schipani (Ed.), Wisdom Traditions in Spiritual Care: Integrative Explorations on Normativity, pp. 129- 150.
Manalili, M. M. C., Goodman, D. M., & Boros, D. (Eds.). (2026). Aesthetic ethics: Towards a moral imagination. Routledge: Taylor & Francis. ()
Manalili, M. M. C., Law, K. F., Syropoulos, S., Amormino, P., Goya-Tocchetto, D., Markowitz, E., & Young, L. (2025). The motivation to protect future people is a source of meaning and mental wellness. Journal of Individual Differences, 46(3),
Chukwudebe, A., Manalili, M. M. C., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Independence of intellect and ego relates to increased subjective well-being and decreased psychopathology. Personality and Individual Differences, 238 (113091):
Goodman, D. M., & Manalili, M. M. C. (Eds.). (2024). Meaningless suffering: Traumatic marginalization and ethical responsibility. Routledge: Taylor & Francis. ()
Manalili, M. M. C. (2023). Touch (screened): Technological trauma, excarnation, and dissociation in a digital age. In D. Goodman & M. Clemente (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology.
Goodman, D. M., Sandage, S. J., Rupert, D., Manalili, M. M. C., Owen, J., Farchione, T., & Zanarini, M.C. (2021). The virtue of virtue for psychotherapy: Contextualizing and situating the conversation. Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Routledge: Taylor & Francis.