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The four chambers of the heart of peace: the role of emotional intelligence, counselling skills, and living systems thinking in the transformation of violent conflict: part one
Get PDFThe first half of a longer piece – itself the second of a series of four articles looking at working with conflict – in which a generic ground map is presented signposting four key tasks that peacebuilders need to bear in mind in any conflict transformation work. The four tasks involve mapping the ‘what’ of peacebuilding: 1 Personal Resources; 2 Interpersonal and Intercultural Issues; 3 Bio‐psycho‐social Determinants; 4 Organizational and Systemic Dimensions. In the current paper the first two of these are described and discussed
Gaia living with AIDS: towards reconnecting humanity with ecosystem autopoiesis using metaphors of the immune system
Get PDFThis paper looks at the dynamic interface between disease, environmental degradation, and human behaviour. It is argued that the role of the ecosystem in maintaining health on a planetary scale can be likened to an organism's immune system. However, humanity's mental and emotional disconnection from these autopoietic processes is a form of ecological autism which is detrimental to the health of humans and ecosystems alike. This ecological autism is resulting in human systems acting like an autoimmune disorder; so that GAIA is living with AIDS. It is suggested that employing metaphors of the immune system to aid understanding and empathy might ameliorate this by helping humanity to realize its embeddedness within nature and to recognize the consequences of its actions
Rogers and out: Encountering Feminism: Intersections between Feminism and the Person-Centred Approach. Edited by Gillian Proctor and Mary Beth Napier. Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire: PCCS Books, 2004; 246 pp. Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client: Race and Culture in Person-Centred Counselling. Edited by Roy Moodley, Colin Lago, and Anissa Talahite. Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire: PCCS Books, 2004; 294 pp.
Get PDFRogers and out: Encountering Feminism: Intersections between Feminism and the Person-Centred Approach. Edited by Gillian Proctor and Mary Beth Napier. Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire: PCCS Books, 2004; 246 pp. Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client: Race and Culture in Person-Centred Counselling
Struggles among Japanese women with conservative gender roles flooded with ‘ideal’ feminine images through commercialism
Get PDFIn Japan, eating disorders among women have been become a huge social problem in the past three decades. It is clear that eating disorders are developed by socio‐cultural context, especially the pursuit of thinness. This paper first shows, through research using EAT‐26, how such behaviours have recently spread even to elementary schoolgirls in Japan. It then attempts to explore, from feminist perspectives, the social status of Japanese women and how commercialism floods them with ‘ideal’ feminine images, which drive them to various self‐destructive behaviours. Conservative gender roles in East Asian culture also greatly restrict women, consciously or unconsciously. Stereotyped feminine images function as a sort of internal oppression, which is observed in much clinical experience with patients with eating disorders. Jungian approaches, dream analysis, insight and withdrawing projections are helpful for patients. By reporting some patients' dreams, I describe their struggles to find their true selves
Sex and power at the Steigenberger Airport Hotel
Get PDFReferences to power in literature on eating disorders include ideas that people exercise power over their bodies to gain a sense of control over their lives, and that such responses to distress can be very manipulative. This article considers these ideas, drawing on some of the author's own experiences of power
Productions of social solidarity and of social compulsion
Get PDFI begin from the assumption that the social groups within which people acquire subjective attributes belong to two different orders. Those of the first order follow the model of organized, closed structures that define fixed places. Examples are social institutions, the state, and the oedipal structure. The groups of the second order are ad hoc groups whose life and consistency depend on the emergence of a problem that must be solved and, therefore, on a doing together. I call these groups communities. This approach to the matter of globalization responds to a way of thinking linkage organization that privileges different ontologies and a characteristic topology for each of them. We should ask ourselves whether solidarity requires an ontological definition; whether it constitutes an ethical problem (commitment), a moral problem (behaviour or obligation), an action/doing based on a previous knowledge of one of the parties, a practice created in connection with an emerging problem, a psychic mechanism, and so on. To answer these manifold questions, I travel a path – one among many possible paths – that involves understanding solidarity as a resource and a practice referred to psychic suffering, especially in present-day Argentina
Sane democracy: Going Sane. By Adam Phillips. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005. 245 pp. Violent Democracy. By Daniel Ross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 183 pp.
Get PDFSane democracy: Going Sane. By Adam Phillips. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005. 245 pp. Violent Democracy. By Daniel Ross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 183 pp
The cultural complex: a statement of the theory and its application
Get PDFThis article explores the concept of ‘the cultural complex’. Grounded in the theory of analytical psychology, this concept originates with C. G. Jung's early work on complex theory and Joseph Henderson's later notion of the ‘cultural unconscious’. Using these two basic ideas, the theory of cultural complexes emerges as a way of understanding the collective psyche as it expresses itself in group behavior and individual psychological experience. Common characteristics of ‘cultural complexes’ include their unconsciousness, their resistance to consciousness, their autonomous functioning, their repetitive occurrence in a group's experience from generation to generation, and their tendency to accumulate historical experiences and memory that validate their point of view. The conflict between ‘the West’ and ‘Islam’ is explored as an example of a cultural complex
