Lynne Waheeba

Upon graduating Furman University with my Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy, I pursued a Masters of Science in Community Engaged Medicine at the same University. As a part of the Masters program, I became a registered behavior technician at Project HOPE Foundation providing applied behavior therapy to children with autism. When I first entered the Masters, I wanted to mix my philosophy background and my scientific one together to understand the inner workings of the human body. I wanted to understand the wholistic effect of the physical ailments on our psyche and the way we conduct ourselves in society. But as I was drafting my Masters thesis, Identity in Schizophrenia, I found myself more interested in identity formation and the issues of the mind more than those of the body and found that my passion lies in the study of the mind. Today, I have changed my path from pursing a Medical Degree to a PhD in the philosophy of mind and consciousness to find the ways identity can be formed and the environmental circumstances that cause its alteration.