Self and Society Volume 37 Issue 1 – Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain

The following lists the contents of Self and Society, Volume 37 Issue 1.
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Editorial:
Author: Maxine Linnell
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Author: Carol Stevens
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Abstract:

In this article I hope to demonstrate that the literary touchstones of Shakespeare's plays are a powerful and fruitful source of inspiration and nourishment in therapeutic work. There seems to be an over-lap between the concerns of therapy and literature and these two methods of discourse are mutually beneficial. It seems significant that Apollo is the god of both poetry and healing. There is a case for saying that the reconstructions of the past that are heard in the therapy room are a narrative weaving or a kind of fiction. We are attempting to read, or interpret, something below the surface and become aware of the use of metaphor and symbol, and are thus working at the interface of what is known and not known.

A shamanic approach to psychotherapy
Author: Leo Rutherford
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Abstract:

I first got involved in humanistic psychology/psychotherapy in the mid-70's when I was in a dire state of mid-life crisis. Those were the days when emoting was all the rage rather as if that was ail there was to it. It was a start, though as a seriously repressed Englishman, I was a failure at it and came to feel I was too inadequate for the therapists!

Dancing on moving ground
Author: Sue Orton
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Heartbreak Hotel
Author: Steve Silverton
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Making it happen. Humanistic values in action, Edited by Alexandra Chalfont:
The Long Boat Home
Author: Martin Pollecoff
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Abstract:

A little bit about myself & society, austerity Britain, invalids, a blind accordionist, Mr Evans the guy with the hook in Wilmonts, masturbation and how my father messed up his psych tests, Freud writing on Psychiatry in the Military, some polemic on the outsourcing of violence, a disturbing fact on PTSD, future plans and more pleading for you to check out www.thelongboathome.co.uk