AHPb Magazine for Self & Society, No. 10 – 2023
Contents
- Editorial: Richard House
- Poem – CREDO for a dying Association: Brian Thorne
- A Celebration of AHP and All Holistic Endeavours: Jill Hall
- Be the Change that You Want to See in the World: Pathik Strand
- The Trauma World We Live In: Gavin Robinson
- Poem – Followers of the graceful: Julian Nangle
- Towards a New Model of Accreditation: Jim Robinson
- Raising the Consciousness of the Human Race: Nick Haynes
- Against Attachment Theory: Manu Bazzano
- The Zen of Humanistic Coaching: Paul Barber
- Victims Can’t Forgive: Jill Hall
- Poem – And the Devil has all the D words: Sue Wright
- Making the Invisible Visible: Miki Kashtan
- Interview – ‘The Western Medical System Is Not Based in Genuine Science’: Dawn Lester and David Parker with Richard House
- Podcast interview – Power With, and Getting to ‘Yes’: Denis Postle with Catherine Llewellyn
- Interview – Self Meets Society: A Personal Perspective on Street Activism…: Richard House with Catherine Llewellyn
- Guidance Regarding Gender-critical Views: UKCP
- Letter to the Editor: Paul Barber
- Book review – Marc Hamer: A Triptych of Wisdom: Sue J. Wright
- Chair’s Page: Lucy Scurfield
Editorial – Richard House
Richard writes: ‘As I write this penultimate editorial of Self & Society, it’s with a heavier heart than I can ever recall since being involved in editing the journal….’.
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A Celebration of AHP and All Holistic Endeavours – Jill Hall
Jill Hall offers a characteristically optimistic and visionary perspective, laced with personal anecdotes, on why revisiting and reconnecting with the roots of Humanistic Psychology is so important today.
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Be the Change that You Want to See in the World – Pathik Strand
Pathik Strand proposes that we be the change that we want to see in the world in a compelling transpersonal vision. ‘Through us’, he writes, ‘Life has created the opportunity and possibility of being conscious of itself. Awareness being aware of itself. And that is the truth that shall set you free.’
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The Trauma World We Live In – Gavin Robinson
Gavin Robinson, writing from a neuro-biological perspective, shows how the powerful, and power itself, are maintained in modern society, and how this affects today’s world, with much or even all of our unconscious processes being held in our bodies.
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Towards a New Model of Accreditation – Jim Robinson
Jim Robinson proposes a new model of accreditation which eschews state regulation, and is based on the human developmental stages as proposed by Ken Wilber, which recognises the reality of hierarchy without indulging in its worst excesses.
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Raising the Consciousness of the Human Race – Nick Haynes
Nick Haynes asks what are the core values of our civilisation, privileging ‘our inner need for bonding and connection with each other’, and the central importance of relational experience, and emotional expression and ‘intelligence’.
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Against Attachment Theory – Manu Bazzano
Manu Bazzano takes on the widely unchallenged notion of Attachment Theory, with ‘the four attachment styles tend[ing] to be taught and learned as a rigid taxonomy rather than a set of hypotheses attempting to describe fluid phenomena. To understand attachment behaviour as a static set of categories… is a mistake.’
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The Zen of Humanistic Coaching – Paul Barber
Paul Barber offers a ‘how to’ text, with hands-on client examples of how a Zen-informed sensibility can illuminate coaching, ‘endeavour(ing) not to interpret, but rather illuminate the field in a phenomenological inquiring way. It’s up to the client to analyse themselves.’
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Victims Can’t Forgive – Jill Hall
Jill Hall’s take on the ‘Victim/Persecutor/Rescuer’ dynamic (the Karpman Drama Triangle) has been hugely influential in the humanistic field, and this article sheds much light on the relational dynamics surrounding the ‘Victimhood archetype’ in relation to the phenomenon of forgiveness and its vicissitudes.
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Making the Invisible Visible – Miki Kashtan
Miki Kashtan acknowledges how very difficult it is to change patterns, arguing that ‘Instead of looking at… specific familial context…, the systemic lens focuses on the larger phenomena within which individual variations occur’ – including (late) capitalism and patriarchy, and all their accompanying positionings to which we’re all subject.
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Interview – ‘The Western Medical System Is Not Based in Genuine Science’ – Dawn Lester & David Parker
Dawn Lester and David Parker fundamentally challenge, through informed, relentless argument based on over a decade of careful research, our most taken-for-granted paradigmatic assumptions about illness and disease in this most daring and thought-provoking of interviews.
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Podcast interview – Power With, and Getting to ‘Yes’: Denis Postle with Catherine Llewellyn
Denis Postle shares his insights on ‘power-over’ and ‘power-with’, and finding our ‘yes!’, with much about his fascinating career journey into what he calls ‘Human Condition Work’. ‘For leaders wishing to be “part of the solution” to current global and local issues, ‘Power With’ is a hugely important notion.’ (Catherine Llewellyn)
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Interview – Self Meets Society: A Personal Perspective on Street Activism…: Richard House with Catherine Llewellyn
Richard House describes in details his campaigning work as a ‘freedom activist’ of a left-libertarian persuasion in Stroud, Gloucestershire, laced with personal sharings and many insights into the the commitments and vicissitudes involved in being a freedom activist in the Covid era.
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Guidance Regarding Gender-critical Views – UKCP
The UKCP’s recently published guidance statement on the vexed and complex issue of gender-critical views in relation to therapy practice.
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