Cheri L. Hausmann, MA, LMFT, is a PhD candidate in Marriage and Family Therapy at Texas Woman’s University and holds a Master’s in History from Eastern Washington University. Her work bridges psychoanalytic theory, family systems, and historical inquiry, with a particular focus on object relations, grief, and maternal absence. She is the author of a chapter in the Routledge International Marriage and Family Therapy Handbook (2023) and has presented her research at conferences, including work on the history of women in object relations and the existential-spiritual dimensions of family grief. Her forthcoming projects include Reclaiming the Empirical Roots of Psychoanalysis: Object Relations and Family Systems Theory as Extensions of Freud Against Lacanian Critique and The Absent Mother: Maternal Death, Object Relations, and the Missing Object in Lacanian Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private clinical practice and has extensive teaching and supervisory experience in academic settings.