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Psychotherapy: A critical examination Edited by Keith Tudor Monmouth, UK: PCCS Books, 2018. 275 pp. ISBN 978-1906254612
Get PDFPsychotherapy: A critical examination Edited by Keith Tudor Monmouth, UK: PCCS Books, 2018. 275 pp. ISBN 978-190625461
Borderlands and Beyond: Place, Space and Process—Growing up in Northern Ireland
Get PDFThis article explores the concept of borderlands in relation to sectarianism, polarisation, and the most recent political conflict in Northern Ireland (1968–1998). It describes the experiences of people living on borders, in margins, borderzones, intersections, no-go areas, interface and compression points, as well as the emptiness of no persons' land. Aside from a few clearly defined crossing points, border country is unspecified, reflecting its shiftiness, which can mirror psychotherapeutic work with its complex internal psychic states and defences. Using a vignette style of writing, my siblings and I offer collaborative family stories in order to share a sense of borderlands—an experience of being caught between the worlds. Although we are 20 years into the peace process, there may still be reverberations of the old cultural edict “whatever you say—say nothing.” However, people have begun to feel safe enough to speak openly about their experiences of the conflict. In any ongoing threatening hyper-vigilant situation, children and adults can and do unconsciously activate a dormant area of consciousness—a heightened intuitive faculty as a kind of survival tactic. I further suggest that my family also developed an increasingly alert collective intuitive organism—a shared reality, in order to stay safe as a group. I amplify these ideas with the help of theoretical reflection and clinical material. In conclusion, I cite from a new wave of local academics, philosophers, and poets who are revisioning their ideas about place, space, and process in a more consciously fluid way, as opposed to the unconscious or subconscious fluidity and shiftiness of the traditional borderlands
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Meditation and the post‐secular condition
Get PDFThis paper looks at the links between meditation practice and the post-secular turn in the wider domain of culture. The latter is a multi-faceted phenomenon, and the article focuses on one of its facets—namely the assertion of immanence over transcendence. This calls for a reinterpretation of the habitual opposition between secularism and religion. Meditation is often embedded in either a religious or secular framework, with contemporary forms increasingly of the latter kind. A third way is suggested, in favour of a meditation practice that acknowledges the post-secular turn. This is particularly called for at a time when secularist forms of meditation such as mindfulness have been decontextualised to the extent of undermining the ethical context of meditation. The approach championed here builds on the phenomenological experience of meditation and on some aspects of the teachings of Dōgen Zenji in thirteenth-century Japan
Zen and therapy. Manu Bazzano. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 2017. 176 pp. ISBN-10: 1138646318, ISBN-13: 978-1138646315
Get PDFZen and therapy. Manu Bazzano. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 2017. 176 pp. ISBN-10: 1138646318, ISBN-13: 978-113864631
JULY — In(ter)dependence Day: Lives mattering, freedom with responsibility, and social well-being
Get PDFTaking the American Declaration of Independence as its starting point, this article critiques the Declaration's individualistic framing of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” It offers an alternative view that emphasises the collective life in which all lives matter, freedom with responsibility, and social well-being, each and all of which both draw on and further the concept of interdependence. Drawing on organismic psychology, Carl Rogers's ideas about the freedom to learn, and Corey Keyes's research on social actualisation, the article argues that, in contrast to independence, and other concepts such as ego, the self/Self, and individuation, the concept, practice, and aspiration of interdependence is more consistent not only with psychotherapeutic knowledge about being human and about human development, but also with psycho-political perspectives that favour more connected and just societies
APRIL — 25 Aprile Festa della Liberazione: Resistance, celebrations and collective grief
Get PDFWith the rise and mainstreaming of right-wing politics globally, it is timely to explore the impact that rituals and anniversaries can have on individual political identity. In Italy, the 25th of April is celebrated annually as Liberation Day. In this article, I explore the historical and contemporary context of this, interweaving some of my own history and identity in order to reflect on the meaning this anniversary has in my commitment to social transformation and justice
Old age by Simone Beauvoir (translated by Patrick O'Brian). London, UK: Andre Deutsch, Weidenfeld and Nicholson and G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. 592 pp.
Get PDFOld age by Simone Beauvoir (translated by Patrick O'Brian). London, UK: Andre Deutsch, Weidenfeld and Nicholson and G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. 592 pp