Self and Society Volume 41 Issue 4

The following lists the contents of Self and Society, Volume 41 Issue 4.
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Editorial:
Authors: Richard House, David Kalisch Co-editor
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Section 1: Features: Special Theme Symposium: Ecopsychology—Guest Edited by Nick Totton:
Guest Introduction
Author: Nick Totton
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Walking in Sacred Space
Author: Caroline Brazier
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Discovering the Language of the Ecological Body
Author: Caroline Frizell
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How the Outside Comes Inside: Ecological Selves in the Therapy Room
Author: Kelvin Hall
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Earth-touching Buddha
Author: Kamalamani
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Hungry Ghosts: Psychotherapy, Control and the Winds of Homecoming
Author: Chris Robertson
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The heroic myth of domination and control of outer and inner nature is fraying at the edges. This article explores the mis-location of collective phenomena to individual experience and the place of psychotherapy at this cultural junction. Psychotherapy can continue its domesticated adjustment to the paradigm of control that leaves clients as hungry ghosts—scapegoats for cultural malaise. Or it can attempt its own painful emptying—a deconstruction or even an exorcism of its own hauntings that open the space for radical renewal. A brief excerpt from the clinical work around a significant dream highlights this exploration and offers a sail to catch the winds of homecoming.

Eros, Animal and Earth
Author: Mary-Jayne Rust
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Section 1: Features:
The Perils of Being Porous: A Psychological View of Spirit Possession and Non-dogmatic Ways of Helping
Author: Isabel Clarke
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Opinion: How to Study Humanistic Psychology
Author: John Rowan
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Section 1: Features: The Roots and History of Humanistic Psychology in Britain:
The Roots and History of Humanistic Psychology in the UK: An Autobiographical Perspective
Author: Ursula Fausset
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Section 1: Features: Theme Symposium on the ‘Occupy’ Movement:
Occupied by Love—a Human Metamorphosis? Some Thoughts on the Psy Relevance of the Occupy Movement
Author: Susana Piohtee
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Occupy: Reflections on my experience as one of the many practitioners who became part of the welfare support group at St Paul's, October 2011
Author: Chip Ponsford
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‘We are the 99%'—The Occupy Protest and Therapeutic Ideology
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Section 1: Features: Remembering Tony Benn, 1925–2014:
I. Growing up with a Giant
Author: Susie Orbach
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II. Daring to Stand Alone, Daring to Stand Together: A Personal-Political Appreciation of Tony Benn (1925–2014)
Author: Keith Tudor
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Section 2: Regulars:
Ethical Dilemmas
Author: Andy Rogers
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Toru, a therapist, notices that among his colleagues and acquaintances in the professions, talk about being ‘evidence-based’ is becoming more common. A university counselling service for which he works a few hours has introduced an outcome measurement system that seems to him rigid, symptom- focused and based on a more medical understanding of distress than he is comfortable with. In that service and elsewhere, a question keeps coming up in supervision groups, CPD sessions and informal discussions with other practitioners: ‘What is the evidence for the effectiveness of that?’.

AHP Co-chair's Page
Author: Martin Pollecoff
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News Interchange
Author: Sissy Lykou
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Section 3: Reviews:
Book Reviews
Authors: Manu Bazzano, Sami Timimi Book Reviews Editor, R.J. Chisholm, Manu Bazzano, Manu Bazzano
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Erratum
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