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Indigenous Health: Power, politics and citizenship. By Dominic O'Sullivan. (2015). Melbourne, Australia: Australia Scholarly Press. ISBN: 9781925333046; 191 pp.
Get PDFIndigenous Health: Power, politics and citizenship. By Dominic O'Sullivan. (2015). Melbourne, Australia: Australia Scholarly Press. ISBN: 9781925333046; 191 pp
Going Global Initiative: The Role of Personal and Community Power in Shifting Cultural Consciousness
Get PDFThe Going Global workshops emerged from the theory and practice of Carl Rogers’ person-centred approach. They are specifically influenced by Rogers’ ground-breaking developmental work with large group process and his specialized application of it to working with groups in conflict. This article is written by the team which created the Going Global workshops and provides an historical context for our work and an exploration of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are required to increase communication, promote peace, and reduce interpersonal and intercultural violence
Cutting the Edge
Get PDFThis paper addresses the sensitive issue of male circumcision and its psychological ramifications, so seldom mentioned in conversation or addressed in the literature. It explores the emotional significance of circumcision from the standpoint of body psychotherapy. Using a single case study, the author discusses the paradox inherent in circumcision which, on the one hand, claims to be an act of devotion and surrender, but, on the other, implants mistrust in the newborn baby. Finally, the author examines the implications of a lack of dialogue about circumcision and considers how therapists might deal with the issue in their work
Forever Young: Consumerism and the Body of Politics from a Body Psychotherapy Perspective
Get PDFThis paper examines the relationship between inherent oral traits (neoteny), cultural bias towards orality and consumerist culture. Through exploring the evolution of Mickey Mouse and looking at the consensual ideal body, I shall offer that consumerism and politics are shaping our body to remain needy, unsatisfied and pathologically oral. The paper suggests that psychotherapy, inasmuch as it challenges such pathological positions, is political and counter‐cultural
Nearby Strangers: The Concurrent Desire for Connection and the Dread of Realising Intimacy
Get PDFThis paper deals with issues of closeness and connectedness among strangers. The author writes from the context of considering the impact of the Israeli political reality, within which he lives. He weaves together the story of joining a novel initiative of a bicultural Jewish–Arabic kindergarten together with a case study, where self‐disclosure results in therapeutic transformation. The author raises questions and ponders about relationships in general, and particularly therapeutic relationships: What are the conditions that allow for closeness? Is proximity sufficient for the creation of closeness? Is there a generative quality to the willingness to move into unfamiliar places, transitional spaces in the therapeutic encounter? Can closeness between strangers take place without attending to the respective wounds of both parties
Psychoanalysis, Marxism: Once and Again
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to analyze the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism on the basis of two historical examples at the beginning of the 20th century in the Soviet Union and Germany. These examples are chosen because of socio‐political events with long‐lasting consequences in which a reference to psychoanalysis emerged as a necessary counterpart of social diagnosis. While Marxism was officially seen as a tool of social change in the Soviet Union, with the rise of fascism in Germany Marxism became both a target of repression and a critical tool of opposition. It will be shown that in both countries psychoanalysis was seen as an important tool whose destiny was shaped by goals set up by political power structures. Therefore, the position of psychoanalysis in these countries underwent dramatic changes. The article asks whether from these historical examples we can draw some lessons for dealing with the contemporary crisis
Tea with Žižek
Get PDFWhen the Occupy Wall Street movement burst on to the political scene in 2011 an analysis developed by the Lacanian theorist Slavoj Žižek (and others) became a critical lens by which to understand the events. Yet this was not the first instance of widespread dissent in the United States to follow from the crisis of 2008. In 2009, the Tea Party Movement had emerged as a major agent of dissent. In this paper, we seek to apply Žižek's analysis to the Tea Party Movement and, in so doing, point to the relative merits and limitations of such an approach
