Newsletter for Self & Society,
No. 1, Summer 2018
Please note: around a third of this newsletter is free open access, and the remainder is password protected for subscribers only. AHP subscribers were sent the newsletter password with the newsletter on 26/7/2018. For non-subscribers, to gain full access, you can join AHPb here.
EDITORIAL By Richard House, Newsletter Editor
Welcome, dear member and reader, to the very first online AHPb Newsletter for Self & Society (S&S). We hope this emailed newsletter reaches you before the customary therapists’ summer/August break, so that if you wish, you can dip into its delights at your leisure whilst on your summer sojourns.
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Introduction from Lucy Scurfield, AHPb Chair
AHPb Chair Lucy Scurfield introduces this, the AHP’s very first online newsletter in our 46 years of existence.
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Obituaries and Remembrances |
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Remembering Jean Clark, 1926–2018Jean Clark was one of the early pioneers of counselling in Britain, and did some leading-edge work on racism and transcultural issues (with Colin Lago) in the 1970s and 1980s. Here, Jean and her many contributions are fondly remembered by Rachel Freeth, Brian Thorne and Richard House. |
A Sonnet by Brian ThorneBrian has shared this deeply touching sonnet which he wrote to his late wife Chris on Valentine’s Day this year. |
AHPb Conference talks |
‘Love Madness and Transformation’ by Jill Hall
Jill Hall’s inspiring talk delivered at the recent AHPb London conference, Saturday 30 June 2018.
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Malcolm Stern: The Empath as Therapist and HealerMalcolm Stern’s contribution (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MKJIbIgVs&feature=youtu.be for a film of the talk) was an account of the suicide of his daughter. A painful issue for anyone, and no less so if one is a therapist meant to be able to navigate a client through a bereavement |
Articles |
‘How Humanistic Psychology Has Changed My Life’ by Caroline Brazier
In a new series, Caroline Brazier writes engagingly and passionately about how Humanistic Psychology has changed her life.
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Editor’s note: We’re delighted to introduce this exciting new series on how HP has influenced our lives with this excellent contribution by Caroline Brazier. If you would like to write a piece for this series (max length 1,000 words), please contact the editor at richardahouse@hotmail.com
‘Through murky climate-change clouds…’ by Nick Duffell
In this engaging article, Nick interrogates the massive democratic controversy surrounding Britain’s Brexit vote to address the highly prescient question, ‘Are Digital Technologies Making Politics Impossible?’
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Regulation and professionalization |
‘Principled Non-compliance’: Some Background to a New Cultural Movement
With another pusch underway by the psy institutions to bring about the state regulation of the psy therapies, here is Richard House’s 2009 document written for practitioners who were preparing for a principled non-compliant stance towards the then-mooted state regulation of the psy therapies.
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The National Counselling Society’s Open Letter on Developing ‘Generic Standards’ for the UK’s Psychological Therapies
NCS CEO Vicky Parkinson gives the professional and political background to recent moves by the major psy organizations around ‘standards’ for the psy therapies, reproducing here in full their excellent and widely supported Open Letter to the BACP, UKCP and BPC on this issue.
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Britain’s welfare state |
The Planned Demolition of Britain’s Welfare State: Interview with Independent Researcher Mo Stewart
Renowned researcher and writer Mo Stewart goes into detailed, fearless depth about an issue that will have intruded into many a therapist’s consulting room and therapy-space under neoliberal austerity – the UK Conservative government’s calculated assault on Britain’s welfare state and benefits system. Be prepared to be rendered speechless and outraged, if you’re not aware of this, perhaps the greatest scandal and atrocity in modern political history.
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Psychiatry in Question |
Open letter from Professor John Read & 30 others to the Secretary of State for Health – ‘Ethical, Professional and Scientific Standards of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’
With James Moore explaining the background to the letter, which challenges the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ grossly downplaying the withdrawal effects from taking antidepressant medication.
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Poetry |
The Redress of Poetry, by Peter Watkins
In this article, Peter explains why poetry is so important to and in the Human Potential Movement.
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A poem by Jean Gebser (trans. Graham Mummery) – ‘And It Will Become Manyfold…’
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‘The Bells’ – a new poem by Jay Ramsay
A poem inspired by a recent visit to his alma mater, Pembroke College, Oxford. See also Jay’s recent AHPb conference talk (in this newsletter).
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Reviews |
Conference review by Graham Mummery: ‘Love, Madness and Transformation’, AHPb annual conference, June 2018
Graham Mummery gives an engaging and comprehensive review of what proved to be a deeply moving conference, at which what humanistic and transpersonal approaches have to offer the human journey were amply demonstrated, and our AHPb community was shown at its best.
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A Rumi Retreat with Andrew Harvey by Gabriel Millar
Gabriel Millar reports on a very special retreat experience with sacred activist and poet, Andrew Harvey.
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The online ISSN of the AHPb Magazine for Self & Society is 2374-5355.