INSTANCES OF LIBERATION
Therapy and the Counter-tradition: the Edge of Philosophy. By Manu Bazzano & Julie Webb (Eds) Abingdon, OX: Routledge, 2016, paperback, 214 pp, £26.41, ISBN: 978-1138905887. Self & Society – International Journal for Humanistic Psychology (44), 4, December 2016 Reviewed by … Continue reading →
ONE-DAY HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE
Expanding a Humanistic Vision for a 21st Century Psychology Holloway Road Resources Centre, London Saturday 7 October 2017, 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. Cost: £60 (includes lunch, refreshments and live music) This one-day conference brings together some of the most inspiring … Continue reading →
The Latest Issue of Self & Society
The August 2016 issue of Self & Society has the following articles:
- Depressive realism: what it is and why it matters to Humanistic Psychology – Colin Feltham
- On the road to nowhere? Social-materialist psychology and depressive realism compared –
The Midlands Psychology Group - Feminism, optimism and depressive realism –
Jeannie K. Wright - When the desert starts to bloom: moving beyond depressive reality – Russell Stagg
- Is life a bitch? The need to contextualize depression and realism – Barbara Dowds
- Depressive Realism: an existential response
– John Pollard
Review of Naomi Klein’s Book ‘This Changes Everything’
An extract from David Kalisch’s review of Naomi Klein’s 2014 Book ‘This Changes Everything‘ Once every few years, Naomi Klein comes out with a new blockbuster that changes the terms of the debate about current issues of pressing concern. This … Continue reading →
What doesn’t kill us…
Stephen Joseph discusses the psychology of post-traumatic growth The field of psychological trauma is changing as researchers recognise that adversity does not always lead to a damaged and dysfunctional life. Post-traumatic growth refers to how adversity can be a … Continue reading →
Carl Rogers on ‘Professionalism’
Ahead of his Time: Carl Rogers on ‘Professionalism’, 1973 Richard House ‘Leonard Piper’ IPN group, London Published in IPNOSIS: an Independent Journal for Practitioners, 6 (Summer), 2002; reprinted in R. House (2010) In, Against and Beyond Therapy, PCCS Books, pp. … Continue reading →
Why a Zen monk of dubious repute persists in calling himself thus
Why a Zen monk of dubious repute persists in calling himself thus by Manu Bazzano Because I inherited this love of living-and-dying. Because I never took the bourgeois vows of purity, property & patriotism but the bodhisattva vows of complicity … Continue reading →
The Spring 2015 Issue of Self & Society
The Spring 2015 issue of Self & Society has the following featured articles:
Special Theme Symposium: Mindfulness and Beyond
Before and after mindfulness — Manu Bazzano
Confessions of a mind-wandering MBSR student: remembering social amnesia — Ronald E. Purser
Painting eyeballs on chaos: on Zen and birth trauma — Dorinda Talbot
A popular misconception — David Brazier
Mindfulness now — R.J.Chisholm
Beyond mindfulness, towards antiquity — Rebecca Greenslade
Subscribers can read the issue online.