AHPb Magazine for Self & Society, No. 7 – Summer 2021

 

AHPb Magazine for Self & Society,
No. 7 – Summer 2021

Note: after several online magazines where AHPb has made a modest contribution to the psy community by making the entire magazine open-access during coronavirus-related ‘lockdowns’, with this issue the magazine reverts to our convention of less than half of the online magazine’s content being open-access – with the remainder being password-protected for subscribers/AHPb members only. AHPb subscribers were sent the password with the email magazine on 28/8/2021. Non-subscribers can gain full access to the twice-yearly magazine and receive our paper journal bi-annually by joining AHPb here. (A PDF containing all the articles is also available for subscribers to download.)


Editorial – Richard House

Richard writes: ‘Welcome to the 7th issue of our online magazine for Self & Society. For this issue, we’ve reverted to our normal custom of making less than half of the online magazine “open access”, in order to secure the integrity of our membership and subscription base. In a psychology world so desperately in need of what Humanistic Psychology has to offer, ….’
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Articles


An Appreciation of Dr Faysal Mikdadi, 1948–2021 – Susan Walpole

Susan Walpole movingly shares her memories and appreciation of the life of a great man, Faysal Mikdadi – writer, poet, educator… – whose wonderful writings have graced this journal in recent years …. 
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Poetry – by Julian Nangle

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Poetry – by Susan Walpole

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Letting the Heart Sing / Bringing about Change: Adaptors and Innovators in the Work of Michael Kirton – Denis Postle

Denis Postle invokes the neglected work of industrial psychologist Michael Kirton to throw illuminating light on differing creative styles, and how Kirton’s Adaption/Innovation (A/I) model can throw much light on creativity, change, and resistance to change – thus going right to the heart of some core concerns of Humanistic Psychology.
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Experts, Establishments and Learning from Struggle – Brian Martin

Brian Martin interrogates the phenomenon of expertise, raising searching, often disturbing questions about (professional) expertise and positional power, and their deployment and abuse, in science and society – and the cost paid by those subject to such abuses.
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Confessions of a Covidiot – Anna Dusseau

Anna Dusseau engagingly describes her own personal journey in making sense of the current Covid conjuncture, including the process through which she reached a settled view on the Covid vaccines.
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Interviews


INTERVIEW: Paradigms, Paradigms… – Martin Cohen with Richard House

Martin Cohen and Richard House discuss the question of paradigm change, centred on Martin’s 2015 book Paradigm Shift, including examining the nature of the many status-quo reinforcing tendencies that militate against fundamental change – even when, from any dispassionate reading, the need for urgent change is clearly indicated.
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THE LONG INTERVIEW: Schooling, Home Education and Childhood under Covid – Anna Dusseau with Richard House

Anna Dusseau tells Richard House about her professional and personal journey from successful teaching career to ardent home-schooler, and what she has learnt and discovered about the learning experience in the process – including the issues that have been opened up around learning and childhood experience in the era of Covid.
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Regular Columns


The Miki Kashtan Column

In ‘Boundaries, Limits, and the Sacred Work of Restoring Trust’, Miki writes: ‘However much the articles and dictionary definitions I have looked at insist otherwise, I still get the deep message that the function of boundaries is to keep others out and to tell others what to do or not do to protect our own safety.’
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Manu Without Portfolio

In his new regular column, Manu Bazzano writes in ‘The Trauma Club’: ‘It’s been hard in the past to work with trauma, the brightly coloured leaflets concede…. Prospective punters are told that this or that legendary clinician, whose fully integrated visage beams from the edges of these ornate ads, will confidently “curate” this freshly minted model for healing trauma.’
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Paul’s Political Column

In his new regular column, Paul Atkinson writes: ‘we have a powerful investment, as a profession, in many of the key aspirations in the modern market-place of achieving a successful and satisfying life. But… without a critical eye on the political processes driving our society and a commitment to asking what we are going to do about it, one way or another many of those aspirations are threatening to destroy us.’
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Professionalisation Issues


Letter from the UK AHPP re proposals from the Professional Standards Authority

Derek Lawton writes: ‘I am writing to seek your support in respect of the UKAHPP’s request for the Privy Council to conduct an Independent Enquiry into the Professional Standards Authority’s (PSA) implementation of the voluntary Accredited Registers (AR) Programme.
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Reports and Reviews


Conference Report: The Process behind the conference ‘Pregnancy and Birth

What Is Covid-19 Teaching Us about Trauma-Informed Choices?’, June 2021 – Elmer Postle
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Review: Alex Gooch reviews Re-visioning Existential Therapy by Manu Bazzano (ed.)

Book cover: Re-visioning Existential Therapy by Manu Bazzano Themes of home, renunciation of home and nostalgia for home resound through the essays collected in Re-Visioning Existential Therapy. In editor Manu Bazzano’s introduction, and in the subsequent fiery essay co-written with John Mackessy, the charge is laid out: existential therapy has become too domesticated, too ‘homely’.
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Review: Richard Brinton reviews A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth

Book cover: A State of Fear by Laura DodsworthFear is a well-known tool, used by leaders down the ages and of all descriptions to help effect certain desired ends, whether they be heads of states in war time, or tyrants and dictators at pretty much any time. The tactics use propaganda to enhance the feeling of threat, distorting and filtering news to present a desired picture which is often very misleading, or even plain false.
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Review: Christopher Schaefer reviews  Social Ecology in Holistic Leadership by Erik Lemcke

Social Ecology in Holistic Leadership by Erik LemckeMany years ago as a young academic, I met the Dutch psychiatrist Bernard Lievegoed and the work of the Netherlands Pedagogical Institute (NPI), and was deeply moved by their work in organisation and community development. I decided to take a leave of absence from my teaching job at MIT and spend a year or more as an intern at their home office in The Netherlands.
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Review: Christopher Schaefer reviews The Social World as Mystery Center: The Social Vision of Anthroposophy by Harrie Salman

The Social World as Mystery Center: The Social Vision of Anthroposophy by Harrie SalmanIn ancient times, mystery centers and schools of initiation were in isolated locations, removed from the many distractions of ordinary life. In his book on The Social World as a Mystery Center, Harrie Salman, the Dutch philosopher and sociologist, maintains that Rudolf Steiner had a markedly different vision of where the mystery centers of modern life take place – namely, in the everyday, where we play, live and work with others.
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Poetry – by Morris Berman

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AHPb Chairs Page

Self & Society is such an important voice of the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain. We need its challenging perspective in these troubled and turbulent, times. It offers a radical alternative, which is more vital than ever, in the face of mainstream media supporting the status quo.
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